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 <div class="li1">6The sons of Ham:</div><div class="li2">Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.</div><div class="li1"> 7The sons of Cush:</div><div class="li2">Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.</div><div class="li1">The sons of Raamah:</div><div class="li2">Sheba and Dedan.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 8Cush was the father#10:8 Father may mean ancestor or predecessor or founder; also in verses 13, 15, 24 and 26. of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the earth. 9He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, &#8220;Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.&#8221; 10The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in#10:10 Or Uruk and Akkad&#8212;all of them in Shinar.#10:10 That is, Babylonia 11From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir,#10:11 Or Nineveh with its city squares Calah 12and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah&#8212;which is the great city.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"> 13Egypt was the father of</div><div class="li2">the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, Naphtuhites, 14Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.</div><div class="li1"> 15Canaan was the father of</div><div class="li2">Sidon his firstborn,#10:15 Or of the Sidonians, the foremost and of the Hittites, 16Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 17Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, 18Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p">Later the Canaanite clans scattered 19and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.</div><div class="p"> 20These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.</div>
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 <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1">List of Defeated Kings</div><div class="p"> 1These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah:</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 2Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.</div><div class="mi">He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge&#8212;from the middle of the gorge&#8212;to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. 3He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee#12:3 Hebrew Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"> 4And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.</div><div class="mi"> 5He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 6Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 7Here is a list of the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave their lands as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions. 8The lands included the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness and the Negev. These were the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. These were the kings:</div><div class="b"></div><table class="table">
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 <td class="cell">9the king of Jericho</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Ai (near Bethel)</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">10the king of Jerusalem</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Hebron</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">11the king of Jarmuth</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <tr class="row">
 <td class="cell">the king of Lachish</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">12the king of Eglon</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Gezer</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">13the king of Debir</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Geder</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">14the king of Hormah</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Arad</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">15the king of Libnah</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Adullam</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">16the king of Makkedah</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Bethel</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">17the king of Tappuah</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Hepher</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">18the king of Aphek</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Lasharon</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">19the king of Madon</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Hazor</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">20the king of Shimron Meron</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Akshaph</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">21the king of Taanach</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Megiddo</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">22the king of Kedesh</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Jokneam in Carmel</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">23the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor)</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">the king of Goyim in Gilgal</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <td class="cell">24the king of Tirzah</td>
 <td class="cell">one</td>
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 <div class="p">1When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, &#8220;You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="mi"> 2&#8220;This is the land that remains: All the regions of the Philistines and Geshurites, 3from the Shihor River on the east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north, all of it counted as Canaanite though held by the five Philistine rulers in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath and Ekron; the territory of the Avvites 4on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, from Arah of the Sidonians as far as Aphek and the border of the Amorites; 5the area of Byblos; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"> 6&#8220;As for all the inhabitants of the mountain regions from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, that is, all the Sidonians, I myself will drive them out before the Israelites. Be sure to allocate this land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have instructed you, 7and divide it as an inheritance among the nine tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;</div>
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 <div class="q1">1I love you, Lord, my strength.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 2The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;</div><div class="q2">my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge,</div><div class="q2">my shield#18:2 Or sovereign and the horn#18:2 Horn here symbolizes strength. of my salvation, my stronghold.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 3I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,</div><div class="q2">and I have been saved from my enemies.</div><div class="q1"> 4The cords of death entangled me;</div><div class="q2">the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.</div><div class="q1"> 5The cords of the grave coiled around me;</div><div class="q2">the snares of death confronted me.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 6In my distress I called to the Lord;</div><div class="q2">I cried to my God for help.</div><div class="q1">From his temple he heard my voice;</div><div class="q2">my cry came before him, into his ears.</div><div class="q1"> 7The earth trembled and quaked,</div><div class="q2">and the foundations of the mountains shook;</div><div class="q2">they trembled because he was angry.</div><div class="q1"> 8Smoke rose from his nostrils;</div><div class="q2">consuming fire came from his mouth,</div><div class="q2">burning coals blazed out of it.</div><div class="q1"> 9He parted the heavens and came down;</div><div class="q2">dark clouds were under his feet.</div><div class="q1"> 10He mounted the cherubim and flew;</div><div class="q2">he soared on the wings of the wind.</div><div class="q1"> 11He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him&#8212;</div><div class="q2">the dark rain clouds of the sky.</div><div class="q1"> 12Out of the brightness of his presence clouds advanced,</div><div class="q2">with hailstones and bolts of lightning.</div><div class="q1"> 13The Lord thundered from heaven;</div><div class="q2">the voice of the Most High resounded.#18:13 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 2 Samuel 22:14); most Hebrew manuscripts resounded, / amid hailstones and bolts of lightning</div><div class="q1"> 14He shot his arrows and scattered the enemy,</div><div class="q2">with great bolts of lightning he routed them.</div><div class="q1"> 15The valleys of the sea were exposed</div><div class="q2">and the foundations of the earth laid bare</div><div class="q1">at your rebuke, Lord,</div><div class="q2">at the blast of breath from your nostrils.</div>
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 <div class="q1">20In that day the remnant of Israel,</div><div class="q2">the survivors of Jacob,</div><div class="q1">will no longer rely on him</div><div class="q2">who struck them down</div><div class="q1">but will truly rely on the Lord,</div><div class="q2">the Holy One of Israel.</div><div class="q1"> 21A remnant will return,#10:21 Hebrew shear-jashub (see 7:3 and note); also in verse 22 a remnant of Jacob</div><div class="q2">will return to the Mighty God.</div><div class="q1"> 22Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel,</div><div class="q2">only a remnant will return.</div><div class="q1">Destruction has been decreed,</div><div class="q2">overwhelming and righteous.</div><div class="q1"> 23The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out</div><div class="q2">the destruction decreed upon the whole land.</div><div class="p"> 24Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:</div><div class="q1">&#8220;My people who live in Zion,</div><div class="q2">do not be afraid of the Assyrians,</div><div class="q1">who beat you with a rod</div><div class="q2">and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.</div><div class="q1"> 25Very soon my anger against you will end</div><div class="q2">and my wrath will be directed to their destruction.&#8221;</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 26The Lord Almighty will lash them with a whip,</div><div class="q2">as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb;</div><div class="q1">and he will raise his staff over the waters,</div><div class="q2">as he did in Egypt.</div><div class="q1"> 27In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders,</div><div class="q2">their yoke from your neck;</div><div class="q1">the yoke will be broken</div><div class="q2">because you have grown so fat.#10:27 Hebrew; Septuagint broken / from your shoulders</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 28They enter Aiath;</div><div class="q2">they pass through Migron;</div><div class="q2">they store supplies at Mikmash.</div><div class="q1"> 29They go over the pass, and say,</div><div class="q2">&#8220;We will camp overnight at Geba.&#8221;</div><div class="q1">Ramah trembles;</div><div class="q2">Gibeah of Saul flees.</div><div class="q1"> 30Cry out, Daughter Gallim!</div><div class="q2">Listen, Laishah!</div><div class="q2">Poor Anathoth!</div><div class="q1"> 31Madmenah is in flight;</div><div class="q2">the people of Gebim take cover.</div><div class="q1"> 32This day they will halt at Nob;</div><div class="q2">they will shake their fist</div><div class="q1">at the mount of Daughter Zion,</div><div class="q2">at the hill of Jerusalem.</div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"> 33See, the Lord, the Lord Almighty,</div><div class="q2">will lop off the boughs with great power.</div><div class="q1">The lofty trees will be felled,</div><div class="q2">the tall ones will be brought low.</div><div class="q1"> 34He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax;</div><div class="q2">Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.</div>
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 <div class="p">25 &#8220;Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life#6:27 Or single cubit to your height?</div><div class="p"> 28 &#8220;And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you&#8212;you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, &#8216;What shall we eat?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we drink?&#8217; or &#8216;What shall we wear?&#8217; 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</div>
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 <div class="p">1Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we#5:1 Many manuscripts let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we#5:2 Or let us boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3Not only so, but we#5:3 Or let us also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5And hope does not put us to shame, because God&#8217;s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.</div><div class="p"> 6You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.</div><div class="p"> 9Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God&#8217;s wrath through him! 10For if, while we were God&#8217;s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.</div>
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