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      <div class="chapter ch29" data-usfm="2CH.29">
         <div class="label">29</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Hezekiah Purifies the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.29.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother&#8217;s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.29.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He did what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, just as his father David had done.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.29.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.29.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and repaired them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.29.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.29.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and said: &#8220;Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.29.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Our parents were unfaithful; they did evil in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s dwelling place and turned their backs on him. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.29.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.29.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, the anger of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.29.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.29.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now I intend to make a covenant with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.29.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My sons, do not be negligent now, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.29.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then these Levites set to work:</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Kohathites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Merarites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">from the Gershonites,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"><span class="content">Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.29.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">from the descendants of Elizaphan,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">Shimri and Jeiel;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">from the descendants of Asaph,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"><span class="content">Zechariah and Mattaniah;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.29.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">from the descendants of Heman,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">Jehiel and Shimei;</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">from the descendants of Jeduthun,</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"><span class="content">Shemaiah and Uzziel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.29.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.29.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as the king had ordered, following the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.29.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The priests went into the sanctuary of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.29.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.29.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.29.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: &#8220;We have purified the entire temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.29.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s altar.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.29.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CH.29.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CH.29.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">29:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">purification offering</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 23 and 24</span></span></span><span class="content"> for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2CH.29.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood against the altar. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2CH.29.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.29.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2CH.29.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2CH.29.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">He stationed the Levites in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king&#8217;s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> through his prophets. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.29.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">So the Levites stood ready with David&#8217;s instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2CH.29.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="2CH.29.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.29.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="2CH.29.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="2CH.29.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">When the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down and worshiped. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.29.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="2CH.29.30"></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.29.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Hezekiah said, &#8220;You have now dedicated yourselves to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="2CH.29.31"></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="2CH.29.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs&#8212;all of them for burnt offerings to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="2CH.29.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The animals consecrated as sacrifices amounted to six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="2CH.29.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated, for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.29.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat of the fellowship offerings and the drink offerings that accompanied the burnt offerings.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="2CH.29.35"><span class="content">So the service of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was reestablished. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="2CH.29.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for his people, because it was done so quickly.</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkMIC">
      <div class="chapter ch7" data-usfm="MIC.7">
         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel&#8217;s Misery</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">What misery is mine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">I am like one who gathers summer fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">at the gleaning of the vineyard;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">there is no cluster of grapes to eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"><span class="content">none of the early figs that I crave.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="MIC.7.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The faithful have been swept from the land;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">not one upright person remains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">Everyone lies in wait to shed blood;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"><span class="content">they hunt each other with nets.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="MIC.7.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Both hands are skilled in doing evil;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the ruler demands gifts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the judge accepts bribes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">the powerful dictate what they desire&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"><span class="content">they all conspire together.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="MIC.7.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The best of them is like a brier,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the most upright worse than a thorn hedge.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">The day God visits you has come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">the day your watchmen sound the alarm.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"><span class="content">Now is the time of your confusion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="MIC.7.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not trust a neighbor;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">put no confidence in a friend.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">Even with the woman who lies in your embrace</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"><span class="content">guard the words of your lips.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="MIC.7.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For a son dishonors his father,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter rises up against her mother,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"><span class="content">a man&#8217;s enemies are the members of his own household.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="MIC.7.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But as for me, I watch in hope for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">I wait for God my Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"><span class="content">my God will hear me.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Will Rise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="MIC.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Do not gloat over me, my enemy!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I have fallen, I will rise.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">Though I sit in darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be my light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="MIC.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Because I have sinned against him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will bear the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s wrath,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">until he pleads my case</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">and upholds my cause.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">He will bring me out into the light;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"><span class="content">I will see his righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="MIC.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then my enemy will see it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">and will be covered with shame,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">she who said to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Where is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">My eyes will see her downfall;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">even now she will be trampled underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"><span class="content">like mire in the streets.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="MIC.7.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The day for building your walls will come,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"><span class="content">the day for extending your boundaries.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="MIC.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">In that day people will come to you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">even from Egypt to the Euphrates</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from sea to sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"><span class="content">and from mountain to mountain.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="MIC.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"><span class="content">as the result of their deeds.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Prayer and Praise</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="MIC.7.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Shepherd your people with your staff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">the flock of your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">which lives by itself in a forest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">in fertile pasturelands.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">in the middle of Carmel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"><span class="content">as in days long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="MIC.7.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;As in the days when you came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"><span class="content">I will show them my wonders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="MIC.7.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Nations will see and be ashamed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">deprived of all their power.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">They will put their hands over their mouths</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"><span class="content">and their ears will become deaf.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MIC.7.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">They will lick dust like a snake,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">like creatures that crawl on the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">They will come trembling out of their dens;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">they will turn in fear to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> our God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"><span class="content">and will be afraid of you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MIC.7.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Who is a God like you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">who pardons sin and forgives the transgression</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">of the remnant of his inheritance?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">You do not stay angry forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"><span class="content">but delight to show mercy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MIC.7.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will again have compassion on us;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">you will tread our sins underfoot</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"><span class="content">and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="MIC.7.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">You will be faithful to Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">and show love to Abraham,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">as you pledged on oath to our ancestors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="MIC.7.20"><span class="content">in days long ago.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">languages</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 11</span></span></span><span class="content"> as the Spirit enabled them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Utterly amazed, they asked: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t all these who are speaking Galileans? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, the Roman province by that name</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs&#8212;we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, &#8220;What does this mean?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.2.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Some, however, made fun of them and said, &#8220;They have had too much wine.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Peter Addresses the Crowd</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.2.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: &#8220;Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It&#8217;s only nine in the morning! </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.2.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;In the last days, God says,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit on all people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">Your sons and daughters will prophesy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your young men will see visions,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"><span class="content">your old men will dream dreams.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.2.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Even on my servants, both men and women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit in those days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"><span class="content">and they will prophesy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will show wonders in the heavens above</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">and signs on the earth below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"><span class="content">blood and fire and billows of smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.2.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The sun will be turned to darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">and the moon to blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"><span class="content">before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.2.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And everyone who calls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"><span class="content">on the name of the Lord will be saved.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="JOL.2.28+JOL.2.29+JOL.2.30+JOL.2.31+JOL.2.32">Joel 2:28-32</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.2.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">This man was handed over to you by God&#8217;s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of those not having the law </span><span class="ft">(that is, Gentiles)</span></span></span><span class="content"> put him to death by nailing him to the cross. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">David said about him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;I saw the Lord always before me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">Because he is at my right hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"><span class="content">I will not be shaken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.2.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"><span class="content">my body also will rest in hope,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.2.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"><span class="content">you will not let your holy one see decay.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.2.27"></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">You have made known to me the paths of life;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"><span class="content">you will fill me with joy in your presence.&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:28 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.16.8+PSA.16.9+PSA.16.10+PSA.16.11">Psalm 16:8-11</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.2.28"></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Fellow Israelites, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.2.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;The Lord said to my Lord:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"><span class="content">&#8220;Sit at my right hand</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.2.34"></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">until I make your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"><span class="content">a footstool for your feet.&#8221;&#8198;&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:35 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.110.1">Psalm 110:1</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.2.35"></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.2.36"></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch12" data-usfm="HEB.12.1+HEB.12.2+HEB.12.3+HEB.12.4+HEB.12.5+HEB.12.6+HEB.12.7+HEB.12.8+HEB.12.9+HEB.12.10+HEB.12.11">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HEB.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HEB.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">God Disciplines His Children</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HEB.12.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HEB.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.12.5"><span class="content">&#8220;My son, do not make light of the Lord&#8217;s discipline,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.12.5"><span class="content">and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HEB.12.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.12.6"><span class="content">and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">12:5,6 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PRO.3.11">Prov. 3:11</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="PRO.3.12">12</span> (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HEB.12.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HEB.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father? </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HEB.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">If you are not disciplined&#8212;and everyone undergoes discipline&#8212;then you are not legitimate, not true sons and daughters at all. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HEB.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live! </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HEB.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HEB.12.11"></span></div>
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