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Prayer Works - Vol. 1: Praying at All Times

Identity & Temptation

Relentless Love: Reflections on the Book of Jonah

BEMA Liturgy I — Part D

Christian Foundations 10 - Beliefs Part 2

The Way to True Happiness

Understanding Spiritual Ranks

Workplace Witness

Mission Trip Checkup: On Mission

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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bk2KI">
      <div class="chapter ch19" data-usfm="2KI.19">
         <div class="label">19</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jerusalem&#8217;s Deliverance Foretold</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They told him, &#8220;This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It may be that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.19.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When King Hezekiah&#8217;s officials came to Isaiah, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Isaiah said to them, &#8220;Tell your master, &#8216;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard&#8212;those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2KI.19.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2KI.19.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2KI.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">19:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the upper Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2KI.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, &#8216;Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2KI.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2KI.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them&#8212;the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah&#8217;s Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2KI.19.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2KI.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and spread it out before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2KI.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And Hezekiah prayed to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: &#8220;</span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Give ear, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and hear; open your eyes, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2KI.19.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2KI.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;It is true, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2KI.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib&#8217;s Fall</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2KI.19.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2KI.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: &#8220;This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">This is the word that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Virgin Daughter Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">despises you and mocks you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">Daughter Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">tosses her head as you flee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2KI.19.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against whom have you raised your voice</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">and lifted your eyes in pride?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">Against the Holy One of Israel!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2KI.19.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">By your messengers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">you have ridiculed the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">And you have said,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">&#8220;With my many chariots</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have ascended the heights of the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the utmost heights of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have cut down its tallest cedars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the choicest of its junipers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">I have reached its remotest parts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">the finest of its forests.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2KI.19.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">I have dug wells in foreign lands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">and drunk the water there.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">With the soles of my feet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2KI.19.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Have you not heard?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">Long ago I ordained it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">In days of old I planned it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">now I have brought it to pass,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">that you have turned fortified cities</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">into piles of stone.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2KI.19.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Their people, drained of power,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">are dismayed and put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">They are like plants in the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like tender green shoots,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">like grass sprouting on the roof,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">scorched before it grows up.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2KI.19.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But I know where you are</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and when you come and go</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">and how you rage against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2KI.19.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Because you rage against me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and because your insolence has reached my ears,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">I will put my hook in your nose</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and my bit in your mouth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">and I will make you return</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">by the way you came.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2KI.19.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">&#8220;This year you will eat what grows by itself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">and the second year what springs from that.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">But in the third year sow and reap,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2KI.19.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">will take root below and bear fruit above.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2KI.19.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">&#8220;The zeal of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty will accomplish this.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2KI.19.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says concerning the king of Assyria:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;He will not enter this city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or shoot an arrow here.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">He will not come before it with shield</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">or build a siege ramp against it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2KI.19.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">By the way that he came he will return;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">he will not enter this city,</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2KI.19.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">I will defend this city and save it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2KI.19.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2KI.19.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">That night the angel of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning&#8212;there were all the dead bodies! </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2KI.19.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="2KI.19.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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<div class="version vid111 iso6393eng" data-vid="111" data-iso6393="eng">
   <div class="book bkDAN">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="DAN.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Daniel&#8217;s Dream of Four Beasts</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he was lying in bed. He wrote down the substance of his dream.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DAN.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DAN.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Daniel said: &#8220;In my vision at night I looked, and there before me were the four winds of heaven churning up the great sea. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Four great beasts, each different from the others, came up out of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DAN.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DAN.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, &#8216;Get up and eat your fill of flesh!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DAN.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DAN.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast&#8212;terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DAN.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;While I was thinking about the horns, there before me was another horn, a little one, which came up among them; and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like the eyes of a human being and a mouth that spoke boastfully.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DAN.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;As I looked,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">&#8220;thrones were set in place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">and the Ancient of Days took his seat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">His clothing was as white as snow;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">the hair of his head was white like wool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">His throne was flaming with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">and its wheels were all ablaze.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DAN.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">A river of fire was flowing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">coming out from before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">Thousands upon thousands attended him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">The court was seated,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">and the books were opened.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DAN.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DAN.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then I continued to watch because of the boastful words the horn was speaking. I kept looking until the beast was slain and its body destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">(The other beasts had been stripped of their authority, but were allowed to live for a period of time.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DAN.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DAN.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:13 </span><span class="ft">The Aramaic phrase <span class="tl">bar enash</span> means </span><span class="fqa">human being. </span><span class="ft">The phrase </span><span class="fq">son of man </span><span class="ft">is retained here because of its use in the New Testament as a title of Jesus, probably based largely on this verse.</span></span></span><span class="content"> coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Interpretation of the Dream</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DAN.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DAN.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;I, Daniel, was troubled in spirit, and the visions that passed through my mind disturbed me. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I approached one of those standing there and asked him the meaning of all this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DAN.7.16"><span class="content">&#8220;So he told me and gave me the interpretation of these things: </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DAN.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8216;The four great beasts are four kings that will rise from the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But the holy people of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it forever&#8212;yes, for ever and ever.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DAN.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DAN.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then I wanted to know the meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws&#8212;the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DAN.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell&#8212;the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DAN.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">As I watched, this horn was waging war against the holy people and defeating them, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">until the Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the holy people of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DAN.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DAN.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">&#8220;He gave me this explanation: &#8216;The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DAN.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">for a year, two years and half a year</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DAN.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DAN.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;But the court will sit, and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DAN.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DAN.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;This is the end of the matter. I, Daniel, was deeply troubled by my thoughts, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Washes His Disciples&#8217; Feet</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JHN.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JHN.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JHN.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JHN.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples&#8217; feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JHN.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, &#8220;Lord, are you going to wash my feet?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JHN.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JHN.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;No,&#8221; said Peter, &#8220;you shall never wash my feet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JHN.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then, Lord,&#8221; Simon Peter replied, &#8220;not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JHN.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JHN.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JHN.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JHN.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you understand what I have done for you?&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> he asked them. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JHN.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You call me &#8216;Teacher&#8217; and &#8216;Lord,&#8217; and rightly so, for that is what I am.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JHN.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another&#8217;s feet.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JHN.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JHN.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts His Betrayal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JHN.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: &#8216;He who shared my bread has turned</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Greek </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fqa">has lifted up his heel</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">against me.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:18 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 41:9</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JHN.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JHN.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Very truly I tell you, whoever accepts anyone I send accepts me; and whoever accepts me accepts the one who sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JHN.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After he had said this, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JHN.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JHN.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">His disciples stared at one another, at a loss to know which of them he meant. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JHN.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved, was reclining next to him. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Simon Peter motioned to this disciple and said, &#8220;Ask him which one he means.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JHN.13.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Leaning back against Jesus, he asked him, &#8220;Lord, who is it?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.13.27"><span class="content">So Jesus told him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What you are about to do, do quickly.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But no one at the meal understood why Jesus said this to him. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Since Judas had charge of the money, some thought Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the festival, or to give something to the poor. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Predicts Peter&#8217;s Denial</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">When he was gone, Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If God is glorified in him,</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:32 </span><span class="ft">Many early manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fqa">If God is glorified in him.</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.13.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.13.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Simon Peter asked him, &#8220;Lord, where are you going?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">Jesus replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Where I am going, you cannot follow now, but you will follow later.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.13.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Peter asked, &#8220;Lord, why can&#8217;t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.13.37"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.13.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">Then Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Will you really lay down your life for me? Very truly I tell you, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times!</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHP.4.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHP.4.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once when I was in need. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PHP.4.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PHP.4.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PHP.4.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.4.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">To our God and Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Greetings</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PHP.4.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PHP.4.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Greet all God&#8217;s people in Christ Jesus. The brothers and sisters who are with me send greetings. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHP.4.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">All God&#8217;s people here send you greetings, especially those who belong to Caesar&#8217;s household.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PHP.4.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PHP.4.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:23 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts do not have </span><span class="fq">Amen</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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