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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1KI.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1KI.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard this (he was still in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), he returned from</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he remained in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1KI.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So they sent for Jeroboam, and he and the whole assembly of Israel went to Rehoboam and said to him: </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1KI.12.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Rehoboam answered, &#8220;Go away for three days and then come back to me.&#8221; So the people went away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1KI.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. &#8220;How would you advise me to answer these people?&#8221; he asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1KI.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They replied, &#8220;If today you will be a servant to these people and serve them and give them a favorable answer, they will always be your servants.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1KI.12.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1KI.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He asked them, &#8220;What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, &#8216;Lighten the yoke your father put on us&#8217;?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1KI.12.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1KI.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The young men who had grown up with him replied, &#8220;These people have said to you, &#8216;Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.&#8217; Now tell them, &#8216;My little finger is thicker than my father&#8217;s waist. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1KI.12.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1KI.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Three days later Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, as the king had said, &#8220;Come back to me in three days.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1KI.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The king answered the people harshly. Rejecting the advice given him by the elders, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1KI.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">he followed the advice of the young men and said, &#8220;My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, to fulfill the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1KI.12.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When all Israel saw that the king refused to listen to them, they answered the king:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">&#8220;What share do we have in David,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">what part in Jesse&#8217;s son?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">To your tents, Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">Look after your own house, David!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1KI.12.16"><span class="content">So the Israelites went home. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But as for the Israelites who were living in the towns of Judah, Rehoboam still ruled over them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1KI.12.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1KI.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">King Rehoboam sent out Adoniram,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:18 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac (see also 4:6 and 5:14); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Adoram</span></span></span><span class="content"> who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam, however, managed to get into his chariot and escape to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1KI.12.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When all the Israelites heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah remained loyal to the house of David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1KI.12.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mustered all Judah and the tribe of Benjamin&#8212;a hundred and eighty thousand able young men&#8212;to go to war against Israel and to regain the kingdom for Rehoboam son of Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1KI.12.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="1KI.12.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But this word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God: </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="1KI.12.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, to all Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not go up to fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Go home, every one of you, for this is my doing.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So they obeyed the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and went home again, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had ordered.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Golden Calves at Bethel and Dan</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="1KI.12.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Then Jeroboam fortified Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built up Peniel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Penuel, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Peniel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="1KI.12.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1KI.12.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jeroboam thought to himself, &#8220;The kingdom will now likely revert to the house of David. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">If these people go up to offer sacrifices at the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in Jerusalem, they will again give their allegiance to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah. They will kill me and return to King Rehoboam.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="1KI.12.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="1KI.12.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves. He said to the people, &#8220;It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="1KI.12.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">One he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">And this thing became a sin; the people came to worship the one at Bethel and went as far as Dan to worship the other.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:30 </span><span class="ft">Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people went to the one as far as Dan</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="1KI.12.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="1KI.12.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Jeroboam built shrines on high places and appointed priests from all sorts of people, even though they were not Levites. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="1KI.12.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He instituted a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the festival held in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. This he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. And at Bethel he also installed priests at the high places he had made. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="1KI.12.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, he offered sacrifices on the altar he had built at Bethel. So he instituted the festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to make offerings.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v137" data-usfm="PSA.119.137"><span class="label">137</span><span class="content">You are righteous, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v137" data-usfm="PSA.119.137"><span class="content">and your laws are right.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v137" data-usfm="PSA.119.137"></span><span class="verse v138" data-usfm="PSA.119.138"><span class="label">138</span><span class="content">The statutes you have laid down are righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v138" data-usfm="PSA.119.138"><span class="content">they are fully trustworthy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v138" data-usfm="PSA.119.138"></span><span class="verse v139" data-usfm="PSA.119.139"><span class="label">139</span><span class="content">My zeal wears me out,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v139" data-usfm="PSA.119.139"><span class="content">for my enemies ignore your words.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v139" data-usfm="PSA.119.139"></span><span class="verse v140" data-usfm="PSA.119.140"><span class="label">140</span><span class="content">Your promises have been thoroughly tested,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v140" data-usfm="PSA.119.140"><span class="content">and your servant loves them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v140" data-usfm="PSA.119.140"></span><span class="verse v141" data-usfm="PSA.119.141"><span class="label">141</span><span class="content">Though I am lowly and despised,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v141" data-usfm="PSA.119.141"><span class="content">I do not forget your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v141" data-usfm="PSA.119.141"></span><span class="verse v142" data-usfm="PSA.119.142"><span class="label">142</span><span class="content">Your righteousness is everlasting</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v142" data-usfm="PSA.119.142"><span class="content">and your law is true.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v142" data-usfm="PSA.119.142"></span><span class="verse v143" data-usfm="PSA.119.143"><span class="label">143</span><span class="content">Trouble and distress have come upon me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v143" data-usfm="PSA.119.143"><span class="content">but your commands give me delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v143" data-usfm="PSA.119.143"></span><span class="verse v144" data-usfm="PSA.119.144"><span class="label">144</span><span class="content">Your statutes are always righteous;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v144" data-usfm="PSA.119.144"><span class="content">give me understanding that I may live.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1511; Qoph</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v144" data-usfm="PSA.119.144"></span><span class="verse v145" data-usfm="PSA.119.145"><span class="label">145</span><span class="content">I call with all my heart; answer me, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v145" data-usfm="PSA.119.145"><span class="content">and I will obey your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v145" data-usfm="PSA.119.145"></span><span class="verse v146" data-usfm="PSA.119.146"><span class="label">146</span><span class="content">I call out to you; save me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v146" data-usfm="PSA.119.146"><span class="content">and I will keep your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v146" data-usfm="PSA.119.146"></span><span class="verse v147" data-usfm="PSA.119.147"><span class="label">147</span><span class="content">I rise before dawn and cry for help;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v147" data-usfm="PSA.119.147"><span class="content">I have put my hope in your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v147" data-usfm="PSA.119.147"></span><span class="verse v148" data-usfm="PSA.119.148"><span class="label">148</span><span class="content">My eyes stay open through the watches of the night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v148" data-usfm="PSA.119.148"><span class="content">that I may meditate on your promises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v148" data-usfm="PSA.119.148"></span><span class="verse v149" data-usfm="PSA.119.149"><span class="label">149</span><span class="content">Hear my voice in accordance with your love;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v149" data-usfm="PSA.119.149"><span class="content">preserve my life, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, according to your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v149" data-usfm="PSA.119.149"></span><span class="verse v150" data-usfm="PSA.119.150"><span class="label">150</span><span class="content">Those who devise wicked schemes are near,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v150" data-usfm="PSA.119.150"><span class="content">but they are far from your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v150" data-usfm="PSA.119.150"></span><span class="verse v151" data-usfm="PSA.119.151"><span class="label">151</span><span class="content">Yet you are near, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v151" data-usfm="PSA.119.151"><span class="content">and all your commands are true.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v151" data-usfm="PSA.119.151"></span><span class="verse v152" data-usfm="PSA.119.152"><span class="label">152</span><span class="content">Long ago I learned from your statutes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v152" data-usfm="PSA.119.152"><span class="content">that you established them to last forever.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1512; Resh</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v152" data-usfm="PSA.119.152"></span><span class="verse v153" data-usfm="PSA.119.153"><span class="label">153</span><span class="content">Look on my suffering and deliver me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v153" data-usfm="PSA.119.153"><span class="content">for I have not forgotten your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v153" data-usfm="PSA.119.153"></span><span class="verse v154" data-usfm="PSA.119.154"><span class="label">154</span><span class="content">Defend my cause and redeem me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v154" data-usfm="PSA.119.154"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your promise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v154" data-usfm="PSA.119.154"></span><span class="verse v155" data-usfm="PSA.119.155"><span class="label">155</span><span class="content">Salvation is far from the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v155" data-usfm="PSA.119.155"><span class="content">for they do not seek out your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v155" data-usfm="PSA.119.155"></span><span class="verse v156" data-usfm="PSA.119.156"><span class="label">156</span><span class="content">Your compassion, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, is great;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v156" data-usfm="PSA.119.156"><span class="content">preserve my life according to your laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v156" data-usfm="PSA.119.156"></span><span class="verse v157" data-usfm="PSA.119.157"><span class="label">157</span><span class="content">Many are the foes who persecute me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v157" data-usfm="PSA.119.157"><span class="content">but I have not turned from your statutes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v157" data-usfm="PSA.119.157"></span><span class="verse v158" data-usfm="PSA.119.158"><span class="label">158</span><span class="content">I look on the faithless with loathing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v158" data-usfm="PSA.119.158"><span class="content">for they do not obey your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v158" data-usfm="PSA.119.158"></span><span class="verse v159" data-usfm="PSA.119.159"><span class="label">159</span><span class="content">See how I love your precepts;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v159" data-usfm="PSA.119.159"><span class="content">preserve my life, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, in accordance with your love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v159" data-usfm="PSA.119.159"></span><span class="verse v160" data-usfm="PSA.119.160"><span class="label">160</span><span class="content">All your words are true;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v160" data-usfm="PSA.119.160"><span class="content">all your righteous laws are eternal.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1513; Sin and Shin</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v160" data-usfm="PSA.119.160"></span><span class="verse v161" data-usfm="PSA.119.161"><span class="label">161</span><span class="content">Rulers persecute me without cause,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v161" data-usfm="PSA.119.161"><span class="content">but my heart trembles at your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v161" data-usfm="PSA.119.161"></span><span class="verse v162" data-usfm="PSA.119.162"><span class="label">162</span><span class="content">I rejoice in your promise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v162" data-usfm="PSA.119.162"><span class="content">like one who finds great spoil.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v162" data-usfm="PSA.119.162"></span><span class="verse v163" data-usfm="PSA.119.163"><span class="label">163</span><span class="content">I hate and detest falsehood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v163" data-usfm="PSA.119.163"><span class="content">but I love your law.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v163" data-usfm="PSA.119.163"></span><span class="verse v164" data-usfm="PSA.119.164"><span class="label">164</span><span class="content">Seven times a day I praise you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v164" data-usfm="PSA.119.164"><span class="content">for your righteous laws.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v164" data-usfm="PSA.119.164"></span><span class="verse v165" data-usfm="PSA.119.165"><span class="label">165</span><span class="content">Great peace have those who love your law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v165" data-usfm="PSA.119.165"><span class="content">and nothing can make them stumble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v165" data-usfm="PSA.119.165"></span><span class="verse v166" data-usfm="PSA.119.166"><span class="label">166</span><span class="content">I wait for your salvation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v166" data-usfm="PSA.119.166"><span class="content">and I follow your commands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v166" data-usfm="PSA.119.166"></span><span class="verse v167" data-usfm="PSA.119.167"><span class="label">167</span><span class="content">I obey your statutes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v167" data-usfm="PSA.119.167"><span class="content">for I love them greatly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v167" data-usfm="PSA.119.167"></span><span class="verse v168" data-usfm="PSA.119.168"><span class="label">168</span><span class="content">I obey your precepts and your statutes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v168" data-usfm="PSA.119.168"><span class="content">for all my ways are known to you.</span></span></div><div class="qa"><span class="heading">&#1514; Taw</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v168" data-usfm="PSA.119.168"></span><span class="verse v169" data-usfm="PSA.119.169"><span class="label">169</span><span class="content">May my cry come before you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v169" data-usfm="PSA.119.169"><span class="content">give me understanding according to your word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v169" data-usfm="PSA.119.169"></span><span class="verse v170" data-usfm="PSA.119.170"><span class="label">170</span><span class="content">May my supplication come before you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v170" data-usfm="PSA.119.170"><span class="content">deliver me according to your promise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v170" data-usfm="PSA.119.170"></span><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"><span class="label">171</span><span class="content">May my lips overflow with praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"><span class="content">for you teach me your decrees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v171" data-usfm="PSA.119.171"></span><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"><span class="label">172</span><span class="content">May my tongue sing of your word,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"><span class="content">for all your commands are righteous.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v172" data-usfm="PSA.119.172"></span><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"><span class="label">173</span><span class="content">May your hand be ready to help me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"><span class="content">for I have chosen your precepts.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v173" data-usfm="PSA.119.173"></span><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"><span class="label">174</span><span class="content">I long for your salvation, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"><span class="content">and your law gives me delight.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v174" data-usfm="PSA.119.174"></span><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"><span class="label">175</span><span class="content">Let me live that I may praise you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"><span class="content">and may your laws sustain me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v175" data-usfm="PSA.119.175"></span><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="label">176</span><span class="content">I have strayed like a lost sheep.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="content">Seek your servant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v176" data-usfm="PSA.119.176"><span class="content">for I have not forgotten your commands.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch13" data-usfm="MRK.13.1+MRK.13.2+MRK.13.3+MRK.13.4+MRK.13.5+MRK.13.6+MRK.13.7+MRK.13.8+MRK.13.9+MRK.13.10+MRK.13.11+MRK.13.12+MRK.13.13+MRK.13.14+MRK.13.15+MRK.13.16+MRK.13.17+MRK.13.18+MRK.13.19+MRK.13.20+MRK.13.21+MRK.13.22+MRK.13.23">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, &#8220;Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MRK.13.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you see all these great buildings?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> replied Jesus. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MRK.13.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MRK.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are all about to be fulfilled?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MRK.13.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MRK.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Jesus said to them: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Watch out that no one deceives you.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MRK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Many will come in my name, claiming, &#8216;I am he,&#8217; and will deceive many.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MRK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MRK.13.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MRK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You must be on your guard. You will be handed over to the local councils and flogged in the synagogues. On account of me you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MRK.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And the gospel must first be preached to all nations.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MRK.13.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MRK.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Everyone will hate you because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MRK.13.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MRK.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you see &#8216;the abomination that causes desolation&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="DAN.9.27">Daniel 9:27</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DAN.11.31">11:31</span>; <span class="ref" usfm="DAN.12.11">12:11</span> </span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">standing where it</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">13:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">he</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">does not belong&#8212;let the reader understand&#8212;then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MRK.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one on the housetop go down or enter the house to take anything out.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MRK.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MRK.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MRK.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Pray that this will not take place in winter,</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now&#8212;and never to be equaled again.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MRK.13.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MRK.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">At that time if anyone says to you, &#8216;Look, here is the Messiah!&#8217; or, &#8216;Look, there he is!&#8217; do not believe it.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.13.23"></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Vision and His Thorn</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CO.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CO.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know&#8212;God knows. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CO.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And I know that this man&#8212;whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CO.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CO.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CO.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CO.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CO.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CO.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But he said to me, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ&#8217;s power may rest on me. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">That is why, for Christ&#8217;s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Concern for the Corinthians</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CO.12.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CO.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the &#8220;super-apostles,&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:11 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the most eminent apostles</span></span></span><span class="content"> even though I am nothing. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CO.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">How were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was never a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CO.12.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CO.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I will not be a burden to you, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CO.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Be that as it may, I have not been a burden to you. Yet, crafty fellow that I am, I caught you by trickery! </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Did I exploit you through any of the men I sent to you? </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.12.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I urged Titus to go to you and I sent our brother with him. Titus did not exploit you, did he? Did we not walk in the same footsteps by the same Spirit?</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.12.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.12.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.12.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.12.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.</span></span></div>
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