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         <div class="label">9</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Queen of Sheba Visits Solomon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the queen of Sheba heard of Solomon&#8217;s fame, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions. Arriving with a very great caravan&#8212;with camels carrying spices, large quantities of gold, and precious stones&#8212;she came to Solomon and talked with him about all she had on her mind. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.9.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too hard for him to explain to her. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.9.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon, as well as the palace he had built, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.9.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, the cupbearers in their robes and the burnt offerings he made at</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">and the ascent by which he went up to</span></span></span><span class="content"> the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, she was overwhelmed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.9.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.9.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She said to the king, &#8220;The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.9.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But I did not believe what they said until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half the greatness of your wisdom was told me; you have far exceeded the report I heard. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.9.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">How happy your people must be! How happy your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom! </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.9.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Praise be to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, who has delighted in you and placed you on his throne as king to rule for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Because of the love of your God for Israel and his desire to uphold them forever, he has made you king over them, to maintain justice and righteousness.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.9.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.9.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then she gave the king 120 talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 4 1/2 tons or about 4 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.9.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.9.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">(The servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon brought gold from Ophir; they also brought algumwood</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:10 </span><span class="ft">Probably a variant of </span><span class="fqa">almugwood</span></span></span><span class="content"> and precious stones. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.9.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The king used the algumwood to make steps for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.9.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.9.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for; he gave her more than she had brought to him. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Splendor</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.9.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.9.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:13 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 tons or about 23 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.9.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">not including the revenues brought in by merchants and traders. Also all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the territories brought gold and silver to Solomon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.9.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.9.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of hammered gold went into each shield. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.9.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:16 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 7 1/2 pounds or about 3.5 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.9.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.9.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with pure gold. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.9.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to it. On both sides of the seat were armrests, with a lion standing beside each of them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.9.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Twelve lions stood on the six steps, one at either end of each step. Nothing like it had ever been made for any other kingdom. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.9.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">All King Solomon&#8217;s goblets were gold, and all the household articles in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Nothing was made of silver, because silver was considered of little value in Solomon&#8217;s day. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.9.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The king had a fleet of trading ships</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">of ships that could go to Tarshish</span></span></span><span class="content"> manned by Hiram&#8217;s</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:21 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Huram, </span><span class="ft">a variant of </span><span class="fq">Hiram</span></span></span><span class="content"> servants. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.9.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.9.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">King Solomon was greater in riches and wisdom than all the other kings of the earth. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.9.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">All the kings of the earth sought audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom God had put in his heart. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.9.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Year after year, everyone who came brought a gift&#8212;articles of silver and gold, and robes, weapons and spices, and horses and mules.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.9.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.9.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horses,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">9:25 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">charioteers</span></span></span><span class="content"> which he kept in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.9.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">He ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.9.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig trees in the foothills. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.9.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Solomon&#8217;s horses were imported from Egypt and from all other countries.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Solomon&#8217;s Death</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.9.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.9.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As for the other events of Solomon&#8217;s reign, from beginning to end, are they not written in the records of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat? </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.9.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.9.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then he rested with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son succeeded him as king.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkOBA">
      <div class="chapter ch1" data-usfm="OBA.1">
         <div class="label">1</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Obadiah&#8217;s Vision</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The vision of Obadiah.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">This is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says about Edom&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">We have heard a message from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">An envoy was sent to the nations to say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Rise, let us go against her for battle&#8221;&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="OBA.1.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will make you small among the nations;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"><span class="content">you will be utterly despised.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="OBA.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The pride of your heart has deceived you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who live in the clefts of the rocks</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of Sela</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">and make your home on the heights,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">you who say to yourself,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"><span class="content">&#8216;Who can bring me down to the ground?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="OBA.1.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Though you soar like the eagle</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">and make your nest among the stars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><span class="content">from there I will bring you down,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"><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 v4" data-usfm="OBA.1.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">&#8220;If thieves came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">if robbers in the night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">oh, what a disaster awaits you!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not steal only as much as they wanted?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">If grape pickers came to you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"><span class="content">would they not leave a few grapes?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="OBA.1.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">But how Esau will be ransacked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"><span class="content">his hidden treasures pillaged!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="OBA.1.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All your allies will force you to the border;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">your friends will deceive and overpower you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">those who eat your bread will set a trap for you,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:7 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"><span class="content">but you will not detect it.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="OBA.1.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">&#8220;will I not destroy the wise men of Edom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"><span class="content">those of understanding in the mountains of Esau?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="OBA.1.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Your warriors, Teman, will be terrified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">and everyone in Esau&#8217;s mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"><span class="content">will be cut down in the slaughter.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="OBA.1.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be covered with shame;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"><span class="content">you will be destroyed forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="OBA.1.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On the day you stood aloof</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">while strangers carried off his wealth</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and foreigners entered his gates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">and cast lots for Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"><span class="content">you were like one of them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="OBA.1.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">You should not gloat over your brother</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of his misfortune,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor rejoice over the people of Judah</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">nor boast so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="OBA.1.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">You should not march through the gates of my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor gloat over them in their calamity</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">nor seize their wealth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"><span class="content">in the day of their disaster.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="OBA.1.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">You should not wait at the crossroads</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">to cut down their fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">nor hand over their survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"><span class="content">in the day of their trouble.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="OBA.1.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;The day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">for all nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">As you have done, it will be done to you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"><span class="content">your deeds will return upon your own head.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="OBA.1.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Just as you drank on my holy hill,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">so all the nations will drink continually;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">they will drink and drink</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"><span class="content">and be as if they had never been.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="OBA.1.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">it will be holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"><span class="content">and Jacob will possess his inheritance.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="OBA.1.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Jacob will be a fire</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and Joseph a flame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">Esau will be stubble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">and they will set him on fire and destroy him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">There will be no survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">from Esau.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="OBA.1.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">People from the Negev will occupy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the mountains of Esau,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and people from the foothills will possess</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">the land of the Philistines.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"><span class="content">and Benjamin will possess Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="OBA.1.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the land as far as Zarephath;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"><span class="content">will possess the towns of the Negev.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="OBA.1.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Deliverers will go up on</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">1:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from</span></span></span><span class="content"> Mount Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">to govern the mountains of Esau.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="OBA.1.21"><span class="content">And the kingdom will be the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.19.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.19.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.19.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.19.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.19.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.19.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All the people saw this and began to mutter, &#8220;He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.19.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, &#8220;Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.19.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.19.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Jesus said to him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parable of the Ten Minas</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.19.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.19.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">While they were listening to this, he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.19.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He said: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">19:13 </span><span class="ft">A mina was about three months&#8217; wages.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Put this money to work,&#8217; he said, &#8216;until I come back.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.19.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, &#8216;We don&#8217;t want this man to be our king.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.19.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.19.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The first one came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned ten more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.19.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Well done, my good servant!&#8217; his master replied. &#8216;Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.19.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The second came and said, &#8216;Sir, your mina has earned five more.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.19.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master answered, &#8216;You take charge of five cities.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.19.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.19.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then another servant came and said, &#8216;Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.19.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.19.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;His master replied, &#8216;I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant! You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Why then didn&#8217;t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.19.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then he said to those standing by, &#8216;Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.19.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; they said, &#8216;he already has ten!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.19.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.19.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content"> </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;He replied, &#8216;I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.</span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.19.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them&#8212;bring them here and kill them in front of me.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">6</div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.6.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">from useless rituals</span></span></span><span class="content"> and of faith in God, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.6.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">instruction about cleansing rites,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">about baptisms</span></span></span><span class="content"> the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.6.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">And God permitting, we will do so.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.6.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.6.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.6.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.6.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and who have fallen</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">age, </span><span class="fv">6 </span><span class="fqa">if they fall</span></span></span><span class="content"> away, to be brought back to repentance. To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.6.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.6.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed. In the end it will be burned.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.6.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.6.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case&#8212;the things that have to do with salvation. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.6.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.6.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.6.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Certainty of God&#8217;s Promise</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HEB.6.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HEB.6.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for him to swear by, he swore by himself, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HEB.6.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">saying, &#8220;I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="GEN.22.17">Gen. 22:17</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.6.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="HEB.6.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="HEB.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="HEB.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="HEB.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="HEB.6.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="HEB.6.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.</span></span></div>
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