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         <div class="label">22</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then David said, &#8220;The house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Preparations for the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners residing in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">David said, &#8220;My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it.&#8221; So David made extensive preparations before his death.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">David said to Solomon: &#8220;My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> my God. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But this word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came to me: &#8216;You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="fq">Solomon </span><span class="ft">sounds like and may be derived from the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">peace</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now, my son, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, as he said you would. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> a hundred thousand talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 3,750 tons or about 3,400 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of gold, a million talents</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:14 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 37,500 tons or about 34,000 metric tons</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You have many workers: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as those skilled in every kind of work </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">in gold and silver, bronze and iron&#8212;craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be with you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He said to them, &#8220;Is not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has given the inhabitants of the land into my hands, and the land is subject to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to his people. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was jealous for his land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.2.18"><span class="content">and took pity on his people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.2.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> replied</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:18,19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa"><span class="nd">Lord</span> will be jealous&#8230; / and take pity&#8230; / </span><span class="fv">19 </span><span class="fqa">The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will reply</span></span></span><span class="content"> to them:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="content">&#8220;I am sending you grain, new wine and olive oil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="content">enough to satisfy you fully;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="content">never again will I make you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="content">an object of scorn to the nations.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will drive the northern horde far from you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">pushing it into a parched and barren land;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">its eastern ranks will drown in the Dead Sea</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">and its western ranks in the Mediterranean Sea.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">And its stench will go up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">its smell will rise.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">Surely he has done great things!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.2.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, land of Judah;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.2.21"><span class="content">be glad and rejoice.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.2.21"><span class="content">Surely the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has done great things!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOL.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Do not be afraid, you wild animals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOL.2.22"><span class="content">for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOL.2.22"><span class="content">The trees are bearing their fruit;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOL.2.22"><span class="content">the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOL.2.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Be glad, people of Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">rejoice in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">for he has given you the autumn rains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">because he is faithful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">He sends you abundant showers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">both autumn and spring rains, as before.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOL.2.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOL.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">The threshing floors will be filled with grain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOL.2.24"><span class="content">the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOL.2.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOL.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOL.2.25"><span class="content">the great locust and the young locust,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOL.2.25"><span class="content">the other locusts and the locust swarm</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:25 </span><span class="ft">The precise meaning of the four Hebrew words used here for locusts is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOL.2.25"><span class="content">my great army that I sent among you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOL.2.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOL.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will have plenty to eat, until you are full,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOL.2.26"><span class="content">and you will praise the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOL.2.26"><span class="content">who has worked wonders for you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOL.2.26"><span class="content">never again will my people be shamed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOL.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOL.2.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then you will know that I am in Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOL.2.27"><span class="content">that I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOL.2.27"><span class="content">and that there is no other;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOL.2.27"><span class="content">never again will my people be shamed.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOL.2.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">&#8220;And afterward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit on all people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="content">Your sons and daughters will prophesy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="content">your old men will dream dreams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="content">your young men will see visions.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOL.2.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOL.2.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Even on my servants, both men and women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOL.2.29"><span class="content">I will pour out my Spirit in those days.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOL.2.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOL.2.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">I will show wonders in the heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOL.2.30"><span class="content">and on the earth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOL.2.30"><span class="content">blood and fire and billows of smoke.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOL.2.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOL.2.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">The sun will be turned to darkness</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOL.2.31"><span class="content">and the moon to blood</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOL.2.31"><span class="content">before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOL.2.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">And everyone who calls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">on the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be saved;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">there will be deliverance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">even among the survivors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOL.2.32"><span class="content">whom the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> calls.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:32 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 2:28-32 is numbered 3:1-5.</span></span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Nations Judged</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 3:1-21 is numbered 4:1-21.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;In those days and at that time,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="content">when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOL.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">I will gather all nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="fq">Jehoshaphat </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the <span class="nd">Lord</span> judges</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 12.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">There I will put them on trial</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">for what they did to my inheritance, my people Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">because they scattered my people among the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">and divided up my land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOL.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">They cast lots for my people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">and traded boys for prostitutes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">they sold girls for wine to drink.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOL.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOL.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia? Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOL.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">palaces</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, that you might send them far from their homeland.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOL.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOL.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them, and I will return on your own heads what you have done. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOL.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Proclaim this among the nations:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Prepare for war!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Rouse the warriors!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOL.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Beat your plowshares into swords</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">and your pruning hooks into spears.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">Let the weakling say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">&#8220;I am strong!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOL.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Come quickly, all you nations from every side,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">and assemble there.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">Bring down your warriors, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOL.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let the nations be roused;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">for there I will sit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">to judge all the nations on every side.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOL.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Swing the sickle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">for the harvest is ripe.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">Come, trample the grapes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">for the winepress is full</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">and the vats overflow&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">so great is their wickedness!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOL.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Multitudes, multitudes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">in the valley of decision!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">For 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 v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">in the valley of decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOL.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The sun and moon will be darkened,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="content">and the stars no longer shine.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOL.3.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will roar from Zion</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">and thunder from Jerusalem;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">the earth and the heavens will tremble.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">But the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be a refuge for his people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">a stronghold for the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Blessings for God&#8217;s People</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOL.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will know that I, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">dwell in Zion, my holy hill.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">Jerusalem will be holy;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">never again will foreigners invade her.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOL.3.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the mountains will drip new wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">and the hills will flow with milk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">all the ravines of Judah will run with water.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">A fountain will flow out of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">and will water the valley of acacias.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Valley of Shittim</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOL.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">But Egypt will be desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">Edom a desert waste,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">because of violence done to the people of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">in whose land they shed innocent blood.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOL.3.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Judah will be inhabited forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="content">and Jerusalem through all generations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOL.3.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Shall I leave their innocent blood unavenged?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="content">No, I will not.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="qc"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOL.3.21"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> dwells in Zion!</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkLUK">
      <div class="chapter ch10" data-usfm="LUK.10.1+LUK.10.2+LUK.10.3+LUK.10.4+LUK.10.5+LUK.10.6+LUK.10.7+LUK.10.8+LUK.10.9+LUK.10.10+LUK.10.11+LUK.10.12+LUK.10.13+LUK.10.14+LUK.10.15+LUK.10.16+LUK.10.17+LUK.10.18+LUK.10.19+LUK.10.20+LUK.10.21+LUK.10.22+LUK.10.23+LUK.10.24">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After this the Lord appointed seventy-two</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:1 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">seventy</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 17</span></span></span><span class="content"> others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He told them, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.10.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you enter a house, first say, &#8216;Peace to this house.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.10.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Heal the sick who are there and tell them, &#8216;The kingdom of God has come near to you.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.10.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">10:15 </span><span class="ft">That is, the realm of the dead</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.10.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.10.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The seventy-two returned with joy and said, &#8220;Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.10.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.10.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.10.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.10.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.10.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.10.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.10.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.10.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.10.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">For I tell you that many prophets and kings wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Appeal Renewed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2TI.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2TI.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2TI.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2TI.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in civilian affairs, but rather tries to please his commanding officer. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2TI.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Similarly, anyone who competes as an athlete does not receive the victor&#8217;s crown except by competing according to the rules. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2TI.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Reflect on what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2TI.2.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2TI.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2TI.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God&#8217;s word is not chained. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2TI.2.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Here is a trustworthy saying:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">If we died with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">we will also live with him;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2TI.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">if we endure,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">we will also reign with him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">If we disown him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">he will also disown us;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2TI.2.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">if we are faithless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">he remains faithful,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">for he cannot disown himself.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Dealing With False Teachers</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2TI.2.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2TI.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Keep reminding God&#8217;s people of these things. Warn them before God against quarreling about words; it is of no value, and only ruins those who listen. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2TI.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2TI.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2TI.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2TI.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2TI.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, God&#8217;s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: &#8220;The Lord knows those who are his,&#8221; and, &#8220;Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2TI.2.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2TI.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2TI.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="2TI.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="2TI.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="2TI.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">And the Lord&#8217;s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="2TI.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="2TI.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.</span></span></div>
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