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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Ai Destroyed</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.8.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">with these orders: &#8220;Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don&#8217;t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, &#8216;They are running away from us as they did before.&#8217; So when we flee from them, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God will give it into your hand. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has commanded. See to it; you have my orders.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai&#8212;but Joshua spent that night with the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.8.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So the soldiers took up their positions&#8212;with the main camp to the north of the city and the ambush to the west of it. That night Joshua went into the valley.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set against him behind the city. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city.&#8221; So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOS.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOS.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Twelve thousand men and women fell that day&#8212;all the people of Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOS.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:26 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them.</span></span></span><span class="content"> all who lived in Ai. </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had instructed Joshua.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOS.8.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOS.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">So Joshua burned Ai</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:28 </span><span class="fq">Ai </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">the ruin.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOS.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOS.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOS.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses&#8212;an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JOS.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JOS.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JOS.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law&#8212;the blessings and the curses&#8212;just as it is written in the Book of the Law. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JOS.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch48" data-usfm="JER.48.1+JER.48.2+JER.48.3+JER.48.4+JER.48.5+JER.48.6+JER.48.7+JER.48.8+JER.48.9+JER.48.10+JER.48.11+JER.48.12+JER.48.13+JER.48.14+JER.48.15+JER.48.16+JER.48.17+JER.48.18+JER.48.19+JER.48.20">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Concerning Moab:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, the God of Israel, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Woe to Nebo, for it will be ruined.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="content">Kiriathaim will be disgraced and captured;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="content">the stronghold</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">captured; / Misgab</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be disgraced and shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JER.48.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Moab will be praised no more;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="content">in Heshbon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:2 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">Heshbon </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">plot</span><span class="ft">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> people will plot her downfall:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="content">&#8216;Come, let us put an end to that nation.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="content">You, the people of Madmen,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:2 </span><span class="ft">The name of the Moabite town Madmen sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fqa">be silenced.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will also be silenced;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="content">the sword will pursue you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JER.48.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.48.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Cries of anguish arise from Horonaim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.48.3"><span class="content">cries of great havoc and destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JER.48.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.48.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Moab will be broken;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.48.4"><span class="content">her little ones will cry out.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">/ proclaim it to Zoar</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JER.48.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.48.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They go up the hill to Luhith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.48.5"><span class="content">weeping bitterly as they go;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.48.5"><span class="content">on the road down to Horonaim</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.48.5"><span class="content">anguished cries over the destruction are heard.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JER.48.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.48.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Flee! Run for your lives;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.48.6"><span class="content">become like a bush</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:6 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">like Aroer</span></span></span><span class="content"> in the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JER.48.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.48.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Since you trust in your deeds and riches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.48.7"><span class="content">you too will be taken captive,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.48.7"><span class="content">and Chemosh will go into exile,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.48.7"><span class="content">together with his priests and officials.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JER.48.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.48.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The destroyer will come against every town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.48.8"><span class="content">and not a town will escape.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.48.8"><span class="content">The valley will be ruined</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.48.8"><span class="content">and the plateau destroyed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JER.48.8"><span class="content">because 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="JER.48.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.48.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Put salt on Moab,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.48.9"><span class="content">for she will be laid waste</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Give wings to Moab, / for she will fly away</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.48.9"><span class="content">her towns will become desolate,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.48.9"><span class="content">with no one to live in them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JER.48.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.48.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s work!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.48.10"><span class="content">A curse on anyone who keeps their sword from bloodshed!</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JER.48.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Moab has been at rest from youth,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">like wine left on its dregs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">not poured from one jar to another&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">she has not gone into exile.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">So she tastes as she did,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">and her aroma is unchanged.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JER.48.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But days are coming,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">&#8220;when I will send men who pour from pitchers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">and they will pour her out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">they will empty her pitchers</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">and smash her jars.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JER.48.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.48.13"><span class="content">as Israel was ashamed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.48.13"><span class="content">when they trusted in Bethel.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JER.48.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can you say, &#8216;We are warriors,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.48.14"><span class="content">men valiant in battle&#8217;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JER.48.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.48.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Moab will be destroyed and her towns invaded;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.48.15"><span class="content">her finest young men will go down in the slaughter,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.48.15"><span class="content">declares the King, whose name is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JER.48.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.48.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;The fall of Moab is at hand;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.48.16"><span class="content">her calamity will come quickly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JER.48.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.48.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Mourn for her, all who live around her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.48.17"><span class="content">all who know her fame;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.48.17"><span class="content">say, &#8216;How broken is the mighty scepter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.48.17"><span class="content">how broken the glorious staff!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JER.48.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Come down from your glory</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">and sit on the parched ground,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">you inhabitants of Daughter Dibon,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">for the one who destroys Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">will come up against you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">and ruin your fortified cities.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JER.48.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.48.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Stand by the road and watch,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.48.19"><span class="content">you who live in Aroer.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.48.19"><span class="content">Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.48.19"><span class="content">ask them, &#8216;What has happened?&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JER.48.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.48.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.48.20"><span class="content">Wail and cry out!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.48.20"><span class="content">Announce by the Arnon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.48.20"><span class="content">that Moab is destroyed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JER.48.20"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">And Saul approved of their killing him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Church Persecuted and Scattered</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.8.1"><span class="content">On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Philip in Samaria</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.8.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah there. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the crowds heard Philip and saw the signs he performed, they all paid close attention to what he said. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">For with shrieks, impure spirits came out of many, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">So there was great joy in that city.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Simon the Sorcerer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.8.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, &#8220;This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.8.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.8.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles&#8217; hands, he offered them money </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">and said, &#8220;Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.8.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Peter answered: &#8220;May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.8.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Then Simon answered, &#8220;Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.8.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.8.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Philip and the Ethiopian</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.8.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.8.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, &#8220;Go south to the road&#8212;the desert road&#8212;that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.8.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:27 </span><span class="ft">That is, from the southern Nile region</span></span></span><span class="content"> eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means &#8220;queen of the Ethiopians&#8221;). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.8.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.8.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">The Spirit told Philip, &#8220;Go to that chariot and stay near it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.8.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.8.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. &#8220;Do you understand what you are reading?&#8221; Philip asked.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.8.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.8.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">&#8220;How can I,&#8221; he said, &#8220;unless someone explains it to me?&#8221; So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.8.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.8.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.8.32"><span class="content">&#8220;He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.8.32"><span class="content">and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.8.32"><span class="content">so he did not open his mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.8.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.8.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.8.33"><span class="content">Who can speak of his descendants?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.8.33"><span class="content">For his life was taken from the earth.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:33 </span><span class="ft">Isaiah 53:7,8 (see Septuagint)</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.8.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.8.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">The eunuch asked Philip, &#8220;Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.8.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.8.35"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.8.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, &#8220;Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.8.37"><span class="label">[37]</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">8:37 </span><span class="ft">Some manuscripts include here </span><span class="fqa">Philip said, &#8220;If you believe with all your heart, you may.&#8221; The eunuch answered, &#8220;I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.8.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.8.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.8.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JAS.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JAS.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JAS.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JAS.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JAS.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">5:5 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">yourselves as in a day of feasting</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Patience in Suffering</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JAS.5.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JAS.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord&#8217;s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JAS.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord&#8217;s coming is near. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Don&#8217;t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The Judge is standing at the door!</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JAS.5.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JAS.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job&#8217;s perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JAS.5.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JAS.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear&#8212;not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No.&#8221; Otherwise you will be condemned.</span></span></div>
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