tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5704165565734878612024-03-08T12:48:49.836+00:00Daily Devotional Bible ReadingsAnd The Home of the Home Bible College Email swpugh56@hotmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-17716342331106443502015-05-08T07:20:00.001+01:002015-05-08T07:20:46.509+01:00AM May 9th John 20<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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9<sup>th </sup>John 20 (The Witness to the Resurrection)<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Lord is risen<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1: The first day of the week cometh Mary
Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone
taken away from the sepulchre. 2: Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter,
and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have
taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid
him. 3: Peter therefore went forth, and that other disciple, and came to the
sepulchre. 4: So they ran both together: and the other disciple did outrun
Peter, and came first to the sepulchre. 5: And he stooping down, and looking
in, saw the linen clothes lying; yet went he not in. 6: Then cometh Simon Peter
following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lie, 7:
And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but
wrapped together in a place by itself. 8: Then went in also that other
disciple, which came first to the sepulchre, and he saw, and believed. 9: For
as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lord appears to Mary<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">10: Then the disciples went away again unto
their own home. 11: But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she
wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, 12: And seeth two angels
in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the
body of Jesus had lain. 13: And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? She
saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where
they have laid him. 14: And when she had thus said, she turned herself back,
and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. 15: Jesus saith unto
her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the
gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence, tell me where thou
hast laid him, and I will take him away. 16: Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She
turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master. 17: Jesus
saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to
my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and
to my God, and your God. 18: Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that
she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lord appears to the disciples<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">19: Then the same day at evening, being the
first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were
assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith
unto them, Peace be unto you. 20: And when he had so said, he shewed unto them
his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.
21: Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent
me, even so send I you. 22: And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and
saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23: Whose soever sins ye remit,
they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
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Lord appears to Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">24: But Thomas, one of the twelve, called
Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25: The other disciples therefore
said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see
in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the
nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. 26: And after
eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came
Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto
you. 27: Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands;
and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless,
but believing. 28: And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.
29: Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast
believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">D.
The Epilogue<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>The
purpose of John’s Gospel<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">30: And many other signs truly did Jesus in the
presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: 31: But these
are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God;
and that believing ye might have life through his name. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Magdalene came very early before the sun
was up to the tomb. When she saw the stone rolled away she ran to find Peter
and John, and said they have taken away the Lord. Peter and John ran to the
tomb to find it just as Mary had said. John arrived first but Peter following
went right inside. They saw the clothes lying as if Jesus had disappeared from
inside them. It was immediately apparent that a resurrection had taken place.
If the body had been stolen the grave clothes would have been missing or
scattered all on a mess on the floor. They didn’t know the scriptures about the
resurrection yet so they had no revelation from the Lord to guide them. The
Disciples went home but Mary stayed weeping in her bereavement. When she looked
back into the tomb she saw two angels sitting at the ends of the shelf on which
Jesus had been laid. The angels asked her why she was weeping. This encouraged
her to talk about her grief. She said l am weeping because my Lord has been
taken away and l do not know where they have buried him. Right at that moment
she felt someone behind her and when she turned she saw Jesus but didn’t
recognise him. He also asked why are you weeping. She thinking that he was the
gardener said Sir if you have removed the body tell me where you have laid him
out. Jesus just called her by her name. ‘Mary’, he said. And suddenly she knew
it was Jesus. Nobody ever spoke to her like that except Jesus. She turned
around and reached out for him. But he said don’t touch me just now because l
have not ascended to my Father but go and tell my brethren that l am going to
ascend unto my Father and Your Father and to my God and Your God. Mary went and
told the disciples that she had seen the Lord. And she told them the things he
had said to her. On that same day the First day of the week the disciples were
holed up in a room because they were afraid of the Jews when suddenly Jesus
appeared in the middle of them. And He said. Shalom to you. As my Father has
sent me so l send you. And so began the ministry of the Apostles recorded by
Luke in his narrative of the Acts of the Apostles. When he had said this he
breathed on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Jesus gave the apostles
judicial authority to forgive sins or to not forgive sins. At this time Thomas
was not with them. When the disciples told him of this event he frankly didn’t
believe them. Eight days later they were together again and Jesus appeared to
them again this time Thomas was present. Jesus said to Thomas come and touch my
hands and feel my side and stop doubting and believe. Thomas fell at Christ’s feet
and called exclaimed My Lord and my God. John explains that there was much more
that Jesus did that is not recorded in this book and that if everything was
recorded then the world would be full of the books that could be written. But
he says this book has been written so that the reader might believe that Jesus
of Nazareth is the Messiah of Israel and the Son of God, and that in believing
that you might have the life of God through his name. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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discover at the tomb?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the resurrection?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">May
3</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 2
Kings 4 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Elisha, the widow and the oil</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: Now there cried
a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha,
saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy
servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him
my two sons to be bondmen. 2: And Elisha said unto her, What shall I
do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said,
Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil. 3:
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours,
even empty vessels; borrow not a few. 4: And when thou art come in,
thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour
out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is
full. 5: So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon
her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out. 6: And
it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her
son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a
vessel more. And the oil stayed. 7: Then she came and told the man of
God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou
and thy children of the rest. </span>
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old woman bears a son</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8: And it fell on a
day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she
constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed
by, he turned in thither to eat bread. 9: And she said unto her
husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God,
which passeth by us continually. 10: Let us make a little chamber, I
pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a
table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he
cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither. 11: And it fell on a
day, that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay
there. 12: And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite.
And when he had called her, she stood before him. 13: And he said
unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us
with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be
spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she
answered, I dwell among mine own people. 14: And he said, What then
is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child,
and her husband is old. 15: And he said, Call her. And when he had
called her, she stood in the door. 16: And he said, About this
season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And
she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine
handmaid. 17: And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season
that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life. </span>
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raises him from the dead</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18: And when the
child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to
the reapers. 19: And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And
he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. 20: And when he had taken
him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon,
and then died. 21: And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the
man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. 22: And she
called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the
young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God,
and come again. 23: And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to
day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be
well. 24: Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive,
and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee. 25:
So she went and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came
to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi
his servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite: 26: Run now, I pray
thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well
with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is
well. 27: And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught
him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man
of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the
LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told me. 28: Then she said,
Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me? 29:
Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine
hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if
any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face
of the child. 30: And the mother of the child said, As the LORD
liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And he arose,
and followed her. 31: And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the
staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor
hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying,
The child is not awaked. 32: And when Elisha was come into the house,
behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed. 33: He went in
therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the
LORD. 34: And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth
upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his
hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the
child waxed warm. 35: Then he returned, and walked in the house to
and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child
sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes. 36: And he called
Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when
she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son. 37: Then she went
in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took
up her son, and went out. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38: And Elisha came
again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of
the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant,
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the
prophets. 39: And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and
found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and
came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
40: So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as
they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O
thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat
thereof. 41: But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the
pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And
there was no harm in the pot. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elisha
feeds many with little food</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42: And there came
a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the
firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the
husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
43: And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred
men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus
saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof. 44: So he
set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to
the word of the LORD. </span>
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Kings 5 Elisha cures Naaman of Leprosy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: Now Naaman,
captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his
master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance
unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
2: And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on
Naaman's wife. 3: And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord
were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of
his leprosy. 4: And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and
thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel. 5: And the king of
Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of
Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and
six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment. 6: And he
brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this
letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my
servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy. 7: And
it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he
rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that
this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore
consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me. 8:
And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of
Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying,
Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he
shall know that there is a prophet in Israel. 9: So Naaman came with
his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house
of Elisha. 10: And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and
wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to
thee, and thou shalt be clean. 11: But Naaman was wroth, and went
away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and
stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand
over the place, and recover the leper. 12: Are not Abana and Pharpar,
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not
wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage. 13:
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father,
if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not
have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and
be clean? 14: Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in
Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came
again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. 15:
And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came,
and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is
no God in all earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take
a blessing of thy servant. 16: But he said, As the LORD liveth,
before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take
it; but he refused. 17: And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray
thee, be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth? for thy
servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice
unto other gods, but unto the LORD. 18: In this thing the LORD pardon
thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to
worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the
house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the
LORD pardon thy servant in this thing. 19: And he said unto him, Go
in peace. So he departed from him a little way. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20: But Gehazi, the
servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared
Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he
brought: but, as the LORD liveth, I will run after him, and take
somewhat of him. 21: So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman
saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet
him, and said, Is all well? 22: And he said, All is well. My master
hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount
Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray
thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments. 23: And Naaman
said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two
talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid
them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him. 24: And
when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed
them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. 25: But
he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him,
Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
26: And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man
turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive
money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and
sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? 27: The leprosy
therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for
ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: And the sons of
the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell
with thee is too strait for us. 2: Let us go, we pray thee, unto
Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place
there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye. 3: And one said,
Be content, I pray thee, and go with thy servants. And he answered, I
will go. 4: So he went with them. And when they came to Jordan, they
cut down wood. 5: But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell
into the water: and he cried, and said, Alas, master! for it was
borrowed. 6: And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed
him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and
the iron did swim. 7: Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he
put out his hand, and took it. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8: Then the king of
Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants,
saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp. 9: And the man of
God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that thou pass not
such a place; for thither the Syrians are come down. 10: And the king
of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned
him of, and saved himself there, not once nor twice. 11: Therefore
the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and
he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which
of us is for the king of Israel? 12: And one of his servants said,
None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel,
telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy
bedchamber. 13: And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send
and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.
14: Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host:
and they came by night, and compassed the city about. 15: And when
the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth,
behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And
his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16: And
he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they
that be with them. 17: And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray
thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of
the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of
horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18: And when they
came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this
people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness
according to the word of Elisha. 19: And Elisha said unto them, This
is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring
you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. 20: And it
came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said,
LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD
opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst
of Samaria. 21: And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw
them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? 22: And he
answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom
thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread
and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their
master. 23: And he prepared great provision for them: and when they
had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their
master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24: And it came to
pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host,
and went up, and besieged Samaria. 25: And there was a great famine
in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was
sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of
dove's dung for five pieces of silver. 26: And as the king of Israel
was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying,
Help, my lord, O king. 27: And he said, If the LORD do not help thee,
whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the
winepress? 28: And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she
answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him
to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. 29: So we boiled my son,
and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son,
that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son. 30: And it came to
pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his
clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and,
behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh. 31: Then he said, God
do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat
shall stand on him this day. 32: But Elisha sat in his house, and the
elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere
the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son
of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the
messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is
not the sound of his master's feet behind him? 33: And while he yet
talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he
said, Behold, this evil is of the LORD; what should I wait for the
LORD any longer? </span>
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into the life of Elisha and while Elijah performed only four miracles
Elisha performed eight miracles. First we read of the widow and the
oil and then the story of the old woman who bore a son. Elisha raises
him from the dead. Some of these miracles are very strange indeed. A
poisonous stew is made edible. He feeds many people with just a
little food. He curses a gentile military leader of leprosy but his
leprosy comes on Gehazi. Then he makes an iron axe head float. Then
Elisha captures Syrian troops. And then we end with the Syrian army
surrounding Samaria. So let’s go back and look at the poor widow.
She came to Elisha with a complaint – she said my husband is dead
and you know that l serve the Lord yet my creditors have come to take
my two sons to be servants. Elisha says what do you want me to do and
then he says what is in your house? She says l have nothing except a
small pot of oil. So Elijah said go and borrow as many pots as you
can from your neighbours. And then come in and shut the door with
your sons and pour out your oil into these vessels until they are all
full. She did so and in the end she said bring me another vessel and
there were none and so the oil stopped flowing. And then Elisha said
go and sell the oil and pay your debt and live and have rest with
your children. And then another day Elisha was passing Shunem and a
great woman persuaded him to come in to eat bread. She said to her
husband he is a holy man she said lets make a little room with a bed
and table and stool and light. And they made this little room a place
for Elisha to come to whenever he was led of the LORD. Elisha came in
and lay on the bed and then he called his servant saying what can we
give her for all this kindness. Gehazi said she has no child. So
Elisha called her and said about this time next year you will hug
your own child. But she said don’t mock me but she conceived a son
exactly as Elisha had said. The child grew but one day he was sent
out to the reapers and suddenly he said my head, my head. They
carried him to his mother and he knelt until noon and then died. She
went and laid him on the prophet’ bed and shut the door. She said
to her husband call the man of God but he said it’s not a Sabbath
day but she went to speak to him. When Elisha saw her coming he sent
his servant asking if all is well. She said I’m well. But she fell
at his feet and Elisha’ servant would pull her away but Elisha said
leave her alone. He said God has hid this thing from me. Elisha told
his servant to go and put his staff on his face. The servant came
back saying the child is dead. Elisha went in and shut the door and
lay on the child and the child revived then the child sneezed seven
times and opened his eyes and Elisha called his servant to call the
boys mother. In these miracles we see the movement of God in the life
of families bringing children to life. Then there was a lack of food
in the land and Elisha came to Gilgall and the sons of the prophets
were sitting around a pot. Elisha said put the pot on the fire to
boil water and gather herbs but one of them took a poisonous plant
and put it in the pot by mistake. When the men were eating the soup
one cried out there is death in the pot. But Elisha said bring me
flour and he put the flour in the pot and it became edible. On
another occasion Elisha met a man from Baal-shalisha and he brought
bread – 20 loaves and some full ears of corn and he said give it to
the people but the servant said how can a hundred men eat this little
food? But it was set before the people and they all ate and were
full. One cannot forget the feeding of the 5000. In the next
narrative we have the famous account of the healing of Naaman the
Syrian. This is a very well known passage He was a great man and yet
he had leprosy. But there was a young girl in his family who told him
of Elisha and he went and submitted himself to bathing seven times in
the Jordan. And he came up clean before the Lord. One cannot help but
think of the ministry of John the Baptist. Naaman thought that he
could give payment but it was refused by Elisha. He could not profit
on the gift of God. But His servant wished to have something for
himself and so he had the leprosy of Naaman. He thought that he could
take things to himself and that nobody would know but the LORD knows
everything and the Lord judged him for his avarice. Then we read of
the man who wishes to build a house and he borrows an axe but the
head came off and fell into the Jordan. He turned to Elisha for help
and he cut down a tree and threw it into the water and that axe
floated. Having been a man of God in families in a number of ways he
then is used of the Lord in commerce but now he will deal with a very
big thing a Syrian invasion. Interestingly enough this was an
invasion by Naaman’s army. What is interesting is that Elisha knew
beforehand everything that the Syrians would do and he warned his
king of what he knew. The Syrian king was greatly intrigued about
Elisha and sent to spy on him. In the morning when Elisha woke he saw
that the city was surrounded by the Syrian army. Elisha’s servant
was very upset and asked Elisha what they were going to do but Elisha
prayed that the Lord would open his eyes. And then he saw that the
LORD’s army was defending the city with chariots of fire. Then
Elisha prayed that the LORD would smite the Syrians with blindness
and the LORD did as Elisha asked. Then Elisha led them in their
blindness to Samaria. Then he prayed that the LORD would open their
eyes and they found themselves in Samaria. These men were given food
and never returned to Israel. After this Ben-hadad king of Syria came
and besieged Samaria. It was so bad that an ass’s head sold for
four silver coins. Then as the king was passing near the wall a woman
cried to him for help because of a disagreement over the eating of
her child with another woman. The king put on sackcloth and ashes and
humbled himself before the Lord. All of these incidents are most
interesting and strange to our ears. What we do see is that God works
through Elisha in families in individuals and in whole nations and
that the most unusual cases will present themselves to us at times.
In those times it is God at work among us. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
2: They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. 3:
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known
the Father, nor me. 4: But these things have I told you, that when
the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And
these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with
you. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">5:
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me,
Whither goest thou? 6: But because I have said these things unto you,
sorrow hath filled your heart. 7: Nevertheless I tell you the truth;
It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the
Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him
unto you. 8: And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9: Of sin, because they
believe not on me; 10: Of righteousness, because I go to my Father,
and ye see me no more; 11: Of judgment, because the prince of this
world is judged. 12: I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye
cannot bear them now. 13: Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he
will shew you things to come. 14: He shall glorify me: for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. 15: All things that the
Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine,
and shall shew it unto you. </span>
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Lord teaches – Prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">16:
A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while,
and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. 17: Then said some
of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto
us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18: They
said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot
tell what he saith. 19: Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask
him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I
said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little
while, and ye shall see me? 20: Verily, verily, I say unto you, That
ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall
be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21: A woman
when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as
soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the
anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22: And ye now
therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall
rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. 23: And in that day ye
shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. 24: Hitherto
have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that
your joy may be full. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Christ
gives this teaching so that the disciples will not be offended. First
they will be excommunicated from the Jewish religious communities. In
fact there will come a time when those who try to kill you will
mistakenly think that they are doing Gods service. They will be
mistaken because they do not know the Father or his son. The future
ministry of the Apostles, at this time, is focused only on the Jewish
communities of Israel. Then Christ said, l am going away yet none of
you ask me where l am going. And because l have said this to you, an
overwhelming sorrow has come upon you. However it is necessary for me
to go away because if l do not go away the Holy Spirit will not come
to you. But if l do go l will send the Holy Spirit to you. When the
Holy Spirit comes he will convince the world of sin, righteousness
and judgment. The sin that the Holy Spirit will convince the world of
will be unbelief. The righteousness that the Holy Spirit will
convince the world of will be the fact that Christ the righteous one
has ascended to the Father. And the judgment that the Holy Spirit
will convince of will be the judgment of the Prince of this world
which took place at the cross. Then Christ said a strange thing. I
have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.
What would they be? Well at this time they could not even comprehend
the Cross let alone the resurrection. They had no concept of a
ministry to Gentiles. They had no concept of ‘the Church’; it
remained at this time a mystery later to be unfolded by the Apostle
Paul. The Later epistles of Paul – The prison epistles, would
contain a body of truth that most believers in that future day would
reject. Yet they were the teachings of Christ which at this time they
were unable to bear now. We must never forget that some truth is
difficult for people to understand or accept. The true Pastor
understands where people are in their understanding of divine truth
and teaches stage by stage, as the people are able to bear it. Then
Christ says, when the Holy Spirit comes he will lead them into all
these truths, stage by stage. He will take all the truth regarding
Christ and reveal it to the disciples and he will tell them things to
come – Prophesy. We must never apologise for teaching Prophesy.
What is the matter with us if we do not have an interest or teach
prophesy. The Holy Spirit will ‘show you things to come’. Christ
then said l am only going to be away for a little while. The
disciples asked him about this. And he said, of a truth, of a truth,
I am telling you the ultimate truth, you will weep and mourn but the
world will rejoice: and you will be full of sorrow, but your sorrow
will be turned into joy. Like a woman who when she has given birth
forgets the pain of childbirth because of the joy which fills her
soul at the birth of a child. And now you will have bereavement but I
will see you again and when l do see you your hearts will be filled
with joy and nobody will be able to take your joy from you. In that
day all you questions will be answered. Of a truth, of a truth, I
tell you the ultimate truth. What ever you will ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you. So far you have asked for nothing in my
name: In that day - ask, and you will receive, and in that your joy
may be indescribable. </span>
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does Christ prepare the disciples for persecution? And how did they
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: Then Moab
rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. 2: And Ahaziah fell
down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and
was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, inquire of
Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
3: But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go
up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them,
Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire
of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? 4: Now therefore thus saith the LORD,
Thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but
shalt surely die. And Elijah departed. 5: And when the messengers
turned back unto him, he said unto them, Why are ye now turned back?
6: And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said
unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in
Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art
gone up, but shalt surely die. 7: And he said unto them, What manner
of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? 8:
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite. 9:
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he
spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down. 10:
And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man
of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his
fifty. 11: Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with
his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath
the king said, Come down quickly. 12: And Elijah answered and said
unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and
consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 13: And he sent again a
captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of
fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and
besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my
life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy
sight. 14: Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the
two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let
my life now be precious in thy sight. 15: And the angel of the LORD
said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he
arose, and went down with him unto the king. 16: And he said unto
him, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to
inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it not because there is no
God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come
down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
17: So he died according to the word of the LORD which Elijah had
spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of
Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
18: Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? </span>
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Kings 2 Elijah taken up to heaven</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: And it came to
pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind,
that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal. 2: And Elijah said unto
Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel.
And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth,
I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel. 3: And the sons
of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said
unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from
thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace. 4:
And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho. 5:
And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and
said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master
from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your
peace. 6: And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here; for the
LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As the LORD liveth, and as
thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on. 7: And
fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar
off: and they two stood by Jordan. 8: And Elijah took his mantle, and
wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided
hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground. 9: And
it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto
Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from
thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy
spirit be upon me. 10: And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing:
nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be
so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. 11: And it came to
pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared
a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder;
and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 12: And Elisha saw it,
and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the
horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own
clothes, and rent them in two pieces. </span>
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Elisha’s ministry Elisha comes back alone</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13: He took up also
the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by
the bank of Jordan; 14: And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell
from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of
Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither
and thither: and Elisha went over. 15: And when the sons of the
prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit
of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed
themselves to the ground before him. 16: And they said unto him,
Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go,
we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit of
the LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into
some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send. 17: And when they urged
him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty
men; and they sought three days, but found him not. 18: And when they
came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them,
Did I not say unto you, Go not? </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19: And the men of
the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this
city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the
ground barren. 20: And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt
therein. And they brought it to him. 21: And he went forth unto the
spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus
saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from
thence any more death or barren land. 22: So the waters were healed
unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23: And he went up
from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there
came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said
unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24: And he
turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the
LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare
forty and two children of them. 25: And he went from thence to mount
Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria. </span>
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Kings 3 Elisha helps Joram defeat Moab</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: Now Jehoram the
son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year
of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years. 2: And he
wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and
like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father
had made. 3: Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom. 4:
And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king
of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams,
with the wool. 5: But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the
king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. 6: And king Jehoram
went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel. 7: And he
went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of
Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to
battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy
people, and my horses as thy horses. 8: And he said, Which way shall
we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom. 9:
So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of
Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there
was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them. 10:
And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the LORD hath called these
three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab! 11: But
Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD, that we
may inquire of the LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's
servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which
poured water on the hands of Elijah. 12: And Jehoshaphat said, The
word of the LORD is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat
and the king of Edom went down to him. 13: And Elisha said unto the
king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets
of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of
Israel said unto him, Nay: for the LORD hath called these three kings
together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab. 14: And Elisha said,
As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not
that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would
not look toward thee, nor see thee. 15: But now bring me a minstrel.
And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the
LORD came upon him. 16: And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this
valley full of ditches. 17: For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see
wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with
water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
18: And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will
deliver the Moabites also into your hand. 19: And ye shall smite
every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good
tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land
with stones. 20: And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat
offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of
Edom, and the country was filled with water. 21: And when all the
Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them,
they gathered all that were able to put on armour, and upward, and
stood in the border. 22: And they rose up early in the morning, and
the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water on the
other side as red as blood: 23: And they said, This is blood: the
kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now
therefore, Moab, to the spoil. 24: And when they came to the camp of
Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they
fled before them: but they went forward smiting the Moabites, even in
their country. 25: And they beat down the cities, and on every good
piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they
stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only
in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
went about it, and smote it. 26: And when the king of Moab saw that
the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men
that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but
they could not. 27: Then he took his eldest son that should have
reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the
wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they
departed from him, and returned to their own land. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today
we begin the second book of Kings which describes division and
destruction. This book of 26 Chapters was written between 846 – 586
BC and its author is unknown. The book describes the effect of
division and disobedience. The Northern Kingdom of Israel (Ten
tribes) is taken captive by the Assyrians, and then the southern
Kingdom of Judah (Two tribes) are taken captive by the Babylonians.
Elijah’s ministry is handed on to Elisha. The ministry of Amos 760
BC, Hosea 753 BC, Micah 742 BC, Isaiah 740 BC, and Jeremiah 627 BC
commences. The Prophetic books of the OT give insight into the times
recorded in Second Kings. For 490 years, the greedy landowners of
Judah had harvested the land during the Sabbath years. The land owed
God seventy years. The poor who had no land were not taken captive.
The poor inherited the earth! In today’s reading we have the
closing events in the life of Elijah and the beginning of Elisha’s
ministry. When Ahab died Moab rebelled against Israel. Ahaziah had an
accident and was sick and he sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub
the god of Ekron as to whether he would recover of this disease. But
the angel of the LORD told Elijah to go and intercept the messengers
saying is there not a God in Israel that you go to inquire of
Baal-zebub? Elijah told them to take the message that he would never
leave his bed but that he would die in it. They didn’t go to
inquire of Baal-zebub but went back to Ahaziah. He said why have you
come back so soon and they repeated what they had heard. The king
asked what the man looked like and they said he was hairy and had a
leather belt. The king knew it was Elijah. So he sent a captain with
50 men to arrest Elijah but he called on fire from heaven on them and
they were consumed. The king sent another 50 men and they were
destroyed too. So the king sent a third 50 but the captain pleaded
for is life and the Lord told Elijah to go with them and not to be
afraid. Elijah went and delivered his message and the king died.
Jehoram reigned in his place. The next incident the last in Elijah’s
life is most interesting. He is the second of only two men that never
died. Elijah is taken up to heaven without dying. Elijah and Elisha
went together to Bethel and prophets met Elisha and said do you know
that Elijah will go up to heaven today and he said yes. Then they
moved on to Jericho and some other prophets said do you know that
Elijah will be taken up to heaven today and he said yes. 50 prophets
stood to watch while Elisha and Elijah went to the Jordan and Elijah
took off his clock and hit the water with it and they divided so that
they went over it on dry land. Elijah asked Elisha what he would like
to be given him and he said a double portion of your Spirit. Elijah
said what you have asked is a hard thing to give but if you see me
leaving then you will have it. As they walked on a chariot of fire
came and separated Elijah from Elisha and a tornado carried Elijah up
to heaven. Elisha saw it all so he took his old cloak and tore it to
pieces. His old life was ended. Elisha went back to the Jordan and
cried where is the God of Elijah? and he hit the water with Elijah
cloak and the waters divided again and he walked over it on dry
ground. When the prophets saw it they knew that Elisha was the
prophet of the Lord. Then the prophets said let us send 50 men to
find Elijah. But Elisha said no so they pleaded with him and he said
ok go. But they never found Elijah even after searching for three
days. When they returned he said l told you not to go. The first
thing that Elisha did was to heal a spring from its poisoned waters.
Then one day Elisha was walking along and 42 little children came and
made fun of him because he was bald but he cursed them I the name of
the LORD and two female bears came and killed the children. No-one is
to mock a man of God. A war broke out between Jehoram and Moab when
Ahab died. Mesha king of Moab was a shepherd. Jehoram asked for
Jehoshaphat to help him in battle and it was agreed. They attacked
through the country of Edom but it was a long journey in the desert
and they became thirsty. So they called for Elisha but the Lord would
not speech to Jehoshaphat so a minstrel was brought who prophesied
what they were to do. They were to dig trenches and wait till
morning. In the morning a great flood came into the valley giving
them enough to drink. When the Moabites came to battle the water
appeared to be like blood and they assumed that there had been a
great defeat and they thought they would come and take the spoil but
when they advanced the armies of Israel and Judah surrounded them and
they were destroyed. Some fled but they were soon found and executed.
The army also spoiled the land of Moab ruining the fields and filling
in the wells. When the king of Moab found the battle was difficult he
sacrificed his son to his god but Israel and Judah were disgusted and
left him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">May
2</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">18:
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19: If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth you. 20: Remember the word that I
said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have
persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my
saying, they will keep yours also. 21: But all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent
me. 22: If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
but now they have no cloke for their sin. 23: He that hateth me
hateth my Father also. 24: If I had not done among them the works
which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they
both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25: But this cometh to
pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
They hated me without a cause. 26: But when the Comforter is come,
whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth,
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: 27: And ye
also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the
beginning. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Christ
continues giving his final teaching to the disciples, He says, it’s
not certain, but if the world hates you just remember that it hated
me first. Then Christ goes on further to explain that they are a
group of men chosen out of the world and therefore the world will
hate you. If they have persecuted me then they will persecute you.
However if they keep my words they will keep your words. All the
persecution that you face will be in my name and because they do not
know my Father. If Jesus had not come and spoken unto them then they
would have not rejected him and sinned in doing so. But now there is
no clock to cover their sin of unbelief. Christ said, my ministry and
yours will be to fulfil the scripture - They hated me without a
cause. When the Holy Spirit comes he will testify of me said Christ.
And you will also be witnesses because you have known me right from
the start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: And Ben-hadad
the king of Syria gathered all his host together: and there were
thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went
up and besieged Samaria, and warred against it. 2: And he sent
messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him,
Thus saith Ben-hadad, 3: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives
also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine. 4: And the king
of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy
saying, I am thine, and all that I have. 5: And the messengers came
again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have
sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy
gold, and thy wives, and thy children; 6: Yet I will send my servants
unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine
house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that
whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their
hand, and take it away. 7: Then the king of Israel called all the
elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man
seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my
children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
8: And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not
unto him, nor consent. 9: Wherefore he said unto the messengers of
Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy
servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the
messengers departed, and brought him word again. 10: And Ben-hadad
sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if
the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people
that follow me. 11: And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell
him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that
putteth it off. 12: And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this
message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions,that
he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13: And, behold,
there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the
LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver
it in to thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
14: And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Even by
the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who
shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou. 15: Then he numbered
the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two
hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people,
even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand. 16: And they
went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the
pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped
him. 17: And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out
first; and Ben-hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are
men come out of Samaria. 18: And he said, Whether they be come out
for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take
them alive. 19: So these young men of the princes of the provinces
came out of the city, and the army which followed them. 20: And they
slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued
them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the
horsemen. 21: And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses
and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. 22: And
the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go,
strengthen thy self, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the
return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23: And the
servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their gods are gods of
the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but let us fight
against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.
24: And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
place, and put captains in their rooms: 25: And number thee an army,
like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for
chariot: and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we
shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and
did so. 26: And it came to pass at the return of the year, that
Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight
against Israel. 27: And the children of Israel were numbered, and
were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel
pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians
filled the country. 28: And there came a man of God, and spake unto
the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the
Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of
the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into
thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. 29: And they
pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in
the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel
slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day. 30: But
the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon
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thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into
the city, into an inner chamber. 31: And his servants said unto him,
Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are
merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and
ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure
he will save thy life. 32: So they girded sackcloth on their loins,
and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and
said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he
said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother. 33: Now the men did
diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did
hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben-hadad. Then he said,
Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him
to come up into the chariot. 34: And Ben-hadad said unto him, The
cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and
thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in
Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35: And a certain
man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word
of the LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
36: Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of
the LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall
slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him,
and slew him. 37: Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I
pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
38: So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and
disguised himself with ashes upon his face. 39: And as the king
passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out
into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and
brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be
missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay
a talent of silver. 40: And as thy servant was busy here and there,
he was gone. And the king of Israel said unto him, So shall thy
judgment be; thyself hast decided it. 41: And he hasted, and took the
ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that
he was of the prophets. 42: And he said unto him, Thus saith the
LORD, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed
to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and
thy people for his people. 43: And the king of Israel went to his
house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria. </span>
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Kings 21 Naboth’s Vineyard</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: And it came to
pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard,
which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2:
And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may
have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and
I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem
good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money. 3: And
Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the
inheritance of my fathers unto thee. 4: And Ahab came into his house
heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite
had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the
inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and
turned away his face, and would eat no bread. 5: But Jezebel his wife
came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou
eatest no bread? 6: And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth
the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or
else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it:
and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard. 7: And Jezebel his
wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel?
arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee
the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 8: So she wrote letters in
Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto
the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with
Naboth. 9: And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and
set Naboth on high among the people: 10: And set two men, sons of
Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst
blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him,
that he may die. 11: And the men of his city, even the elders and the
nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent
unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent
unto them. 12: They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among
the people. 13: And there came in two men, children of Belial, and
sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even
against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did
blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the
city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. 14: Then they sent to
Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. 15: And it came to
pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that
Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of
Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for
Naboth is not alive, but dead. 16: And it came to pass, when Ahab
heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the
vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it. 17: And
the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 18: Arise,
go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he
is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
19: And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast
thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto
him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the
blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. 20: And Ahab
said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I
have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the
sight of the LORD. 21: Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will
take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth
against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, 22: And
will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat,
and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation
wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin. 23:
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat
Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel. 24: Him that dieth of Ahab in the
city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the
fowls of the air eat. 25: But there was none like unto Ahab, which
did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom
Jezebel his wife stirred up. 26: And he did very abominably in
following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom
the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 27: And it came to
pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put
sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went
softly. 28: And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite,
saying, 29: Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because
he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days:
but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house. </span>
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Kings 22 Micaiah predicts Ahab’s defeat</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1: And they
continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. 2: And it
came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah
came down to the king of Israel. 3: And the king of Israel said unto
his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still,
and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria? 4: And he said
unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead?
And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my
people as thy people, my horses as thy horses. 5: And Jehoshaphat
said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of
the LORD to day. 6: Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets
together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go
against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said,
Go up; for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king. 7:
And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD
besides, that we might inquire of him? 8: And the king of Israel said
unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by
whom we may inquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not
prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not
the king say so. 9: Then the king of Israel called an officer, and
said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah. 10: And the king of
Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne,
having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the
gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. 11: And
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron: and he said,
Thus saith the LORD, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until
thou have consumed them. 12: And all the prophets prophesied so,
saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall
deliver it into the king's hand. 13: And the messenger that was gone
to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the
prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I
pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is
good. 14: And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith
unto me, that will I speak. 15: So he came to the king. And the king
said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go against Ramoth-gilead to battle,
or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the
LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. 16: And the king
said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me
nothing but that which is true in the name of the LORD? 17: And he
said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have
not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them
return every man to his house in peace. 18: And the king of Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would prophesy no
good concerning me, but evil? 19: And he said, Hear thou therefore
the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all
the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
20: And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and
fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said
on that manner. 21: And there came forth a spirit, and stood before
the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. 22: And the LORD said unto
him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying
spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt
persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. 23: Now
therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of
all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning
thee. 24: But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote
Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD
from me to speak unto thee? 25: And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt
see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide
thyself. 26: And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him
back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
27: And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and
feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until
I come in peace. 28: And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in
peace, the LORD hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29: So the king of
Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
30: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the
king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle. 31: But
the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule
over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save
only with the king of Israel. 32: And it came to pass, when the
captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it
is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him:
and Jehoshaphat cried out. 33: And it came to pass, when the captains
of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that
they turned back from pursuing him. 34: And a certain man drew a bow
at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the
harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine
hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded. 35: And the
battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot
against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the
wound into the midst of the chariot. 36: And there went a
proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun,
saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country. 37:
So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the
king in Samaria. 38: And one washed the chariot in the pool of
Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his
armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake. 39: Now
the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory
house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 40: So
Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his
stead. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41: And Jehoshaphat
the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab
king of Israel. 42: Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he
began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi. 43: And he
walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from
it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless
the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt
incense yet in the high places. 44: And Jehoshaphat made peace with
the king of Israel. 45: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and
his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 46: And the remnant
of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he
took out of the land. 47: There was then no king in Edom: a deputy
was king. 48: Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for
gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
49: Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my
servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would
not. 50: And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with
his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">51: Ahaziah the son
of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel. 52: And
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his
father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin: 53: For he served Baal, and
worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel,
according to all that his father had done. </span>
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that occur in our daily Bible reading are the invasion of the Syrian
army and Ahab’s victory over them then we have the incident of the
vineyard of Naboth. The Prophet Micaiah predicts Ahabs defeat and it
follows that Ahab is killed in battle. Jehoshaphat becomes king of
Judah and Ahaziah king of Israel. But first Ben-hadad gatheres his
army to invade Samaria. Ban-hadad is spoiling for a fight so he
gathers a formidable army of 32 kings and he makes outrageous demands
of Ahab. First he demands all the treasures of precious metal and
then he demands all the most precious human treasures the women and
children. Then he says l am sending servants to your house tomorrow
and they will take anything they like for me. Ahab calls for all the
elders and they say take no notice of him. Ahab told the enemy not to
boast of victory yet. Ben-hadad was furious and put the whole army in
battle formation. Then a prophet of the Lord came to Ahab telling him
that he will win a great victory. In this way he will know that the
LORD is God. Ahab asked how the battle was to be won and the Lord
said by your princes, only 232 of them. They went out against the
Syrians and killed them and the great army fled. The prophet of the
Lord encouraged Ahab in the battle because another battle would soon
come. Later that year the Syrians came again to attack Ahab and his
kingdom. Then another prophet told Ahab that they would have a great
victory again. The battle started and 100,000 infantry wre killed on
the Syrian side in one day. The rest ran away into the safety of the
city walls but the wall of the city collapsed leaving them open to
attack again. Ben-hadad came and pleaded for peace and Ahab granted
him mercy. Then we have a very strange incident. One prophet tells
another prophet to strike him but he refuses and because of this
disobedience to the word of the LORD he is told that a lion will kill
him which happens as soon as he leaves the city. So the prophet goes
to find another man and he says to him strike me and he did wounding
him. Then the prophet went out and covered his face with ashes and
spoke to Ahab and told him that because he had shown mercy to
Ben-hadad who had been appointed for death so he would loose his life
instead. The king Ahab went away dejected. Much later Ahab saw a
vineyard next to his palace which was very good so he asked Naboth if
he could buy it, but Naboth refused. Ahab was fed up and refused to
eat so his wife Jezabel said whats the matter and Ahab explained.
Jezabel said don’t worry l will get the vineyard for you so she
wrote letters in Ahabs name to the elders of the city reporting him
for blaspheme and demanding that they should stone him. The elders
hear the false witnesses against Naboth and they executed him.
Jezabel heard of the killing and told Ahab that he was now free to
buy the vineyard. However the word of the LORD came to Elijah telling
him to go and confront Ahab and telling him where to find him. He
warned him of the judgment of the LORD saying that where the dogs
licked Naboths blood there they will lick your blood. The Lord said
you have done great evil and all your male children will die. Ahab
rent his clothes and put ash on his head and fasted and the LORD told
Elijah because he has humbled himself before me l will delay the
judgment all his life but l will judge his descendants after his
death. Next we have the story of the 401</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
prophet – Micaiah. Three years of peace ended with the invasion
again of Syria. Jehoshaphat went to Ahab to ask if he would join
forces with him in battle. Jehoshaphat said to Ahab my servants are
your servant, my horses are your horses. But can we not get a word
from the LORD about this matter? So Ahab gathered 400 of his yes men
and said to them shall l go to war or stay at home? He was an evil
man but in a fix he still wanted to know Gods will. They all answered
Yes Go up and the LORD will deliver the enemy to your hand. Then
Jehoshaphat said isn’t there a prophet of the Lord beside all these
(yes men). Ahab said yes there is one prophet Micaiah, but l hate him
he never says anything good about me. The king said bring Micaiah. So
when he came the kings of both kigdoms and 400 of the yes men were
gathered. Those who came to Miciaiah said to him now don’t be
awkward you prophecy what we tell you. But he answered As the LORD
liveth – what the LORD says, that will l speak. When he came they
asked him what the Lord says and he said. Go and the Lord will proser
you! The king was frustrated at him saying tell me the truth. And the
prophet said l saw all Israel scattered as sheep without a shepherd
(The kings were the shepherds of Israel) Ahab said l told you that he
wouldn’t say a good thing about me. Then Micaiah opened heaven and
revealed the lies of the false prophets. Then Zedekiak went to
Micaiah and slapped his face – Micaiah gave him a sharp warning.
Then Ahab said his servants go and put Micaiah into prison and feed
him on bread and water. If he could not shut his mouth he would
starve him out. So Micaiah told the people if Ahab returns from
battle than l am a false prophet. Listen to me all of you. So they
went to battle but Ahab descided that he would disguise himself. The
king of Syria told his men don’t fight all the men just focus on
the king. In the melee a man drew his bow probably thinking l had
better do something and he released it at random and the arrow flew
up and came down and struck home between the links of his armour and
he said l am wounded take me out of the battle he died that day. His
blood was washed out of the chariot and the dogs licked the ground as
the prophet had said. Ahaziah his son took the throne in his place.
In Judah Jehoshaphat reigned in his fathers place. He was a good king
serving the Lord all his days. He reigned for 25 years. He expelled
all the sodomites out of the land. He made ships to go to get gold
but they never sailed. When he died his son Jehoram reigned in his
place. In the north Ahaziah reigned after Ahab. </span>
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Net Bible says… </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">20:30</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the
wall fell on them. They tried to escape beind the city walls but the
wall fell leaving them open to attack. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
30</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 17 </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Elijah warns Ahab of drought</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said
unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand,
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my
word. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook
Cherith, that is before Jordan. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
commanded the ravens to feed thee there. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he went and did according unto the word of the LORD: for he went
and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread
and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because
there had been no rain in the land. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elijah
- Widow of Zarephath</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell
there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of
the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and
he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in
a vessel, that I may drink. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring
me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an
handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and,
behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for
me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but
make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the
LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and
he, and her house, did eat many days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail,
according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman,
the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore,
that there was no breath left in him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of
God? art thou come unto me to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay
my son? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her
bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him
upon his own bed. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also
brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto
the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul
come into him again. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child
came into him again, and he revived. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber
into the house, and delivered him unto his mother: and Elijah said,
See, thy son liveth. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man
of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth. </span>
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Kings 18 Elijah speaks to Ahab again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came
to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and
I will send rain upon the earth. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore
famine in Samaria. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house. (Now
Obadiah feared the LORD greatly: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that
Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave,
and fed them with bread and water.) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of
water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save
the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab
went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew
him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy
servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my
lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there;
he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the
Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I
come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I
thy servant fear the LORD from my youth. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in
a cave, and fed them with bread and water? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and
he shall slay me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I
will surely shew myself unto him to day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet
Elijah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
Art thou he that troubleth Israel? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy
father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the
LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel,
and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of
the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elijah on Mt Carmel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the
prophets together unto mount Carmel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye
between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal,
then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of
the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one
bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and
put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on
wood, and put no fire under: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of
the LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all
the people answered and said, It is well spoken. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for
yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name
of your gods, but put no fire under. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it,
and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying,
O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And
they leaped upon the altar which was made. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry
aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or
he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with
knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until
the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was
neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the
people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that
was broken down. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes
of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying,
Israel shall be thy name: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he
made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures
of seed. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid
him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it
on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time.
And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench
also with water. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening
sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of
Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art
God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all
these things at thy word. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the
LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that
was in the trench. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they
said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of
them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the
brook Kishon, and slew them there. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
drought ends</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a
sound of abundance of rain. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of
Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face
between his knees, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went
up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again
seven times. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there
ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he
said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down,
that the rain stop thee not. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with
clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went
to Jezreel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins,
and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 19 Elijah flees to Mt Horeb</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had
slain all the prophets with the sword. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, So let the gods do
to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of
them by to morrow about this time. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to
Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and
sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he
might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life;
for I am not better than my fathers. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel
touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and
a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him
down again. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched
him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for
thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that
meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Lord speaks to Elijah again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the
word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou
here, Elijah? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for
the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am
left; and they seek my life, to take it away. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And,
behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the
mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the
LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the
LORD was not in the earthquake: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire:
and after the fire a still small voice. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his
mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And,
behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here,
Elijah? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts:
because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown
down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even
I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness
of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over
Syria: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:
and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be
prophet in thy room. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael
shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall
Elisha slay. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have
not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth:
and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray
thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And
he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew
them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and
gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after
Elijah, and ministered unto him. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">This brings us to
the life and ministry of Elijah. We see that Elijah first warns Ahab
of a drought which is the judgment of God on the northern kingdom
because of their backslidings. Then we have the interesting case of
the widow of Zarephath. Then we read of the encounter of Elijah with
Ahab and the contest on Mt Carmel. Elijah then brings the drought to
an end and flees at the threats of Jezebel. Then we read of the word
of the Lord coming again to Elijah and finally Elisha is raised up by
the Lord to replace Elijah. It’s interesting that Elijah raises no
army nor is e a king but he is the Prophet of the Lord who brings a
special word from the Lord to the wayward king and he leads a massive
revival that is all cantered on one showdown on Mt Carmel. So how did
Elijah achieve so much? He achieved so much by prayer in private and
a public demonstration of the power of God in a very public place. It
all starts with Elijah coming to Ahab to warn him of the coming
drought. This drought was no ordinary drought it was an act of God in
judgment. In the Law we saw that the Lord promised rain and fruitful
harvest to Israel if they were faithful to the LORD but he also
warned of drought and failed crops if they forsook the LORD. Now
Elijah will call upon the name of the LORD to shut up the heavens to
rain. He tells Ahab that the LORD has said that it will not rain for
three years. And then he prays fervently that it will not rain. Then
the LORD told Elijah to go and hide himself. He went and hid on the
eastern banks of the Jordan in the rocky cliffs where a little brook
would give him water. And he was fed morning and evening by ravens.
(This is interesting because ravens were unclean) They brought him
bread and flesh and so God who told him to be there provided for all
his needs. After a while the brook dried up and then the LORD told
him to go to Zarephath. (A seaside village on the coast in the far
north of Palestine.) There the LORD commanded a widow to shelter
him. It’s interesting that God was working in the life of other
people in Israel and their obedience was as much an instrument of God
as the man of God himself. This was a gentile village outside of
Israel. We cannot fail to notice that first ravens and now a gentile
woman? God often does what seems strange to us. When Elijah arrived
she was gathering sticks to commit suicide with her son. Now God will
move in her life to save her life and to provide for his servant.
Elijah asks for a drink of water and a little bread. She answered
that she had just a small among of flour and a little oil and it will
be her last meal. He says to her don’t be afraid. Bring me a little
cake and make one for yourself and your son. The barrel of flour will
not run out and the cruise of oil will not run out until the day that
the LORD sends rain. The LORD provided every day all that they all
needed for the day. But after many days the boy became sick. She
spoke to him saying have you come to slay my son? So he carried him
up into the loft where he slept and he laid him o his bed and then
prayed to the LORD for the boy he laid beside him three times. And
Elijah pleaded with the Lord for the dead boy. Everything in Elijah’s
life would be accomplished by prayer. Then the Lord heard his prayer
and the child was revived. Then he brought him to his mother. She
said, now l know that you are a man of God. This was a sign from
heaven which confirmed Elijah’s prophetic message. Then after three
years the LORD told Elijah to go to speak to Ahab again because he
was going to send rain again. There was a very bad famine in Samaria
and Ahab had called for Obadiah who was his house steward. Obadiah
feared the LORD a great deal. When Jezebel had tried to kill all the
prophets in Israel Obadiah had taken 100 prophets and hid them in a
cave. And he had given them bread and water. Ahab sent Obadiah to
find grass for the flocks. Ahab and Obadiah searched for green grass.
Obadiah met Elijah and he fell on his face. Elijah told him to go and
fetch is master Ahab. Obadiah told Elijah all that he had done and
said he was afraid to go because Ahab might be cross with him and
kill him. Elijah reassured him that he would see Ahab this day. When
Ahab came he said to Elijah you are the one who has brought all this
trouble on Israel. But he answered no l have not troubled Israel but
you and your fathers house have forsaken the LORD and followed
Baalim. He said l will meet you at My Carmel, bring the priests of
Baalim 450 and bring the prophets of the grove 400. When they met on
Mt Carmel Elijah spoke to Israel calling on Israel to make a choice
between following the LORD or Baal. Then he called for a public
demonstration of the power of God to enable Israel to know who was
right and who they should follow. He said bring two bullocks and let
the priests of Baal make an offering to their God and if he answers
by fire then he will be the Lord of Israel. The people liked the idea
so the Baal worshippers made an altar and called on their god but
there was no answer and no fire. From morning to noon they danced and
pleaded but no fire came. Elijah mocked them saying maybe he is
asleep or maybe he has gone for walk! Then after they had injured
themselves and done all they could Elijah said to the people come
near and he rebuilt the altar of the LORD out of twelve stones. He
also made a trench around it and filled it with water he arranged the
bullock on the wood and he poured water onto the altar and it ran
into the trench. And then he told them to do it again. And then do it
a third time. And then at 3pm he called on the name of the LORD and
the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood and
the stones and the dust and the water in the trench. Then the people
fell on their faces saying only the LORD is God. They took the
prophets of Baal and Elijah executed them all. Then Elijah told Ahab
that it was gong to rain. Elijah went and called on the name of the
LORD and the rain came again. Ahab told Jezebel his wife what Elijah
had done and Jezebel sent a message to Elijah says l will kill you
before tomorrow. Elijah ran to Beer-sheba where he left his servant
and he went another day’s journey and sat under a juniper tree and
asked the LORD to take his life. Elijah was exhausted so the Lord
provided regular food and drink and sleep for two days and then on
the strength of this food he went for 40 days he went to Horeb. Then
the Lord spoke to him, saying why are you here Elijah? He said l have
done everything and yet my life is now in danger. He said l am the
only prophet left alive. The LORD told him to go and stand before
him. And a great wing came and smashed the rocks in pieces. But the
Lord was not in the wind. Then the LORD sent an earthquake. But the
LORD was not in the earthquake. Then the LORD sent a fire, but the
LORD was not in the fire. When everything was finished there was
still a quite voice from the LORD. Then the LORD spoke to him again,
what are you doing here Elijah? And he repeated l have done
everything for you and now they want to kill me. The Lord said go to
Damascus and anoint Hazael king over Syria. And anoint Jehu king of
Israel. And by the way l have still got 7,000 in Israel that are
faithful to me. Elijah found Elisha ploughing with twelve oxen and
Elijah passed by him he threw his overcoat on him. Elisha stopped and
ran after Elijah and he said let me go and say farewell to my parents
and then l will follow you. Elisha went back and killed the oxen and
gave the meat to the people and then he went back a followed Elijah.
We see in this passage that God was doing two things in the life of
Elijah he was doing and work of God through him and he was doing a
work of God in him. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why was there a
drought?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How did Elijah
bring the nation to its knees?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How did it work? </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">May 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">st</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
15 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">7 “I am the true vine”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2: Every branch
in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3:
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4:
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself,
except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5: I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I
in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do
nothing. 6: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch,
and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire,
and they are burned. 7: If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8: Herein
is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my
disciples. 9: As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you:
continue ye in my love. 10: If ye keep my commandments, ye shall
abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and
abide in his love. 11: These things have I spoken unto you, that my
joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12: This is
my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13:
Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for
his friends. 14: Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you. 15: Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. 16:
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that
ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you. 17: These things I command you, that ye love one
another. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
type of the vine was commonly used in Israel to describe the relation
of God to his covenant people. In this part of Christ’s teaching to
his disciples he declares himself to be the true vine. He says l am
the True Vine and my Father is the husbandman. Christ continues the
analogy saying that every branch in him that does not bear fruit.
i.e. godly living under the mosaic law the Father will cut off from
Israel so that ‘it’ - Israel may produce more fruit. Now that the
disciples are clean through the word which Christ had spoken they are
to remain ‘in’ the vine. Abide in me, and l in you, Christ says,
because the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in
the vine. You will not be able to bear fruit of righteousness unless
you abide in me says Christ. Then he says, I am the vine and you are
the branches. Christ is saying, I am the Messiah and you are my
followers and you will not be able to produce righteous deeds unless
you abide in me, because without me you can do nothing. If a man does
not abide in me then he is cut off and he withers and like dead
branches he is gathered to be burnt in the fire. Now this cannot be
said of any of Gods children who are saved. This is describing Jews
who are living according to the law. If they do not live righteously
they will be cut off from the ministry of Christ and they will face
the fire of judgment. However Christ says to his own people, if you
abide in me then you will be able to ask anything and it will be done
unto you. The glory of the father is seen in the righteousness of the
disciples. This is pure law. He says, If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in my love; in the same way that I have kept my
Father's commandments, and abide in his love. How very different to
the situation that the christian finds himself in. He is accepted in
Christ once and for all. His sins are forever forgiven. The disciples
are to keep themselves in the fathers love by keeping the
commandments of Christ. Christ says that these things are being said
to you so that you might have the joy of God in your souls. Then
Christ reiterates his commandment. This is my commandment, that you
love one another, as I have loved you. He says, Greater love has no
man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends. And you
are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you. Christ is saying
you are my friends if you obey my commandments. This is not said to
Christians under Grace. Christians under grace do keep the
commandments of Christ, but not in order to be Christ’s friend but
because they are in a saved relationship with Christ. Christ explains
that he is not going to call them servants anymore because servants
do not know what their Lord is doing. He says l am going to call you
friends; because everything that I have heard from my Father I have
made it known to you. Christ says to the Apostles, You did not choose
me but I chose you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring
forth fruit, and that your fruit should be permanent and that
whatsoever you will ask of the Father in my name, he will give it
you. Its pretty certain that the Apostles didn’t understand what
Christ was saying. He was saying that they are to go forth and
produce righteous deeds that will bring glory to God. And that they
are free to ask for anything and God will do it for them. Lastly he
says, I command you - that you love one another. And so we have this
amazing balance between All authority to command blessing and the
injunction to love toward each other. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
does the husbandman do to those branches that do not bear fruit?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What
does it mean to Abide in Christ? </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In
what way did the disciples come into a new relationship?</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-84018894062096988982015-04-29T22:11:00.004+01:002015-04-29T22:11:42.792+01:00AM April 30th John 14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
30</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
14 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">6 “I am the way, the truth & the life”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in
me. 2: In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3: And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4: And whither I go ye
know, and the way ye know. 5: Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know
not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6: Jesus saith
unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me. 7: If ye had known me, ye should have known my
Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. 8:
Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9: Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet
hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the
Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10: Believest
thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words
that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that
dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11: Believe me that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works'
sake. 12: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these
shall he do; because I go unto my Father. 13: And whatsoever ye shall
ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in
the Son. 14: If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(The
Witness to the Witnesses) The Lord’s private last words</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">15:
If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16: And I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever; 17: Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot
receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know
him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18: I will not
leave you comfortless: I will come to you. 19: Yet a little while,
and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye
shall live also. 20: At that day ye shall know that I am in my
Father, and ye in me, and I in you. 21: He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest
myself to him. 22: Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is
it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
23: Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep
my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and
make our abode with him. 24: He that loveth me not keepeth not my
sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's
which sent me. 25: These things have I spoken unto you, being yet
present with you. 26: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things,
and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto
you. 27: Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid. 28: Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go
away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice,
because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than
I. 29: And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it
is come to pass, ye might believe. 30: Hereafter I will not talk much
with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in
me. 31: But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as
the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">All
of the teaching of the following chapters was missed by Judas. Christ
is giving his last words to the disciples before his betrayal and
trials. In the previous chapter Christ has said, that he was going
away for a little while and you will seek me but you will no find me.
This had raised the boast of Peter that he would follow the Lord to
the end but Christ had revealed to Peter his weakness, telling him
that he would deny him three times before the night was over. Then
Christ says, Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God.
Now believe also in me. Christ says, you believe in God now believe
also in me. Christ is calling on the disciples to become believers in
him. Previously they had been believers in God but now they are to
become believers in Christ. And what are they to believe about
Christ? That he was going away but that he was going away to prepare
a place for them and that he was coming back to take them to the
place that he will prepare. Christ was not speaking about the
resurrection he was talking about his return in Glory at the end of
the age. His ultimate purpose is that they might be with him where he
is. Then he said where l am going you know and the way to that place
you know. Thomas spoke for the rest. He said, Lord, we do not know
where you are going, so how can we know the way? Jesus answered in
the famous words; I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes
to the Father, except by me. If you had known me, then you should
have known my Father also and from now onward you will know him, and
you will have seen him. Philip answered, Lord, show us the Father,
and we will be satisfied. Jesus answered to Thomas, Have I been with
you so long and yet you do not know me, Philip? Then he said, He that
has seen me has seen the Father; so how can you say, Show us the
Father? Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father
in me? And the words that I speak to you do not come from me but from
my father who lives in me, he does the works. Believe me that I am in
the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me because of my
works. Then Jesus said, truly, truly, I am telling you the ultimate
truth. He that believes on me, will do the works that l do and he
will do greater works than l have done, because I go am going to my
Father. And whatsoever you will ask in my name, that will I do, so
that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Comforter,
one who will abide with you for ever; He will be the Spirit of truth;
who the world cannot receive, because it does not see him or know
him. but you will know him because he will live with you and he will
be in you. I am not going to leave you without a protector. For a
little while the world will see me no more but you will see me (in
the resurrection) and because l live, you will live also. On that day
(the day of resurrection) you will know that I am in my Father and
you in me, and I in you. And He that has my commandments, and keepeth
them, he is the one who loves me: and he that loveth me shall be
loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to
him. Judas (the other Judas not Judas Iscariot) said, Lord, how is
it that thou wilt reveal yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus
said to him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father
will love him, and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.
He that loves me not does not keep my sayings: and the word which you
hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. The Comforter, who is
the Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in my name, he will teach
you everything, and help you to remember everything that I have said
to you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not like
the peace of the world. Do not let not your heart be troubled, do let
it be afraid. You have heard that l said, I am going away and will
come again to you. If you did love me you would rejoice, because I
said, I am going to go to the Father: because my Father is greater
than I. So Now I have told you before it happens so that when it
happens you will believe in me. From now on l will not talk much
about this with you because Satan has come and yet he has found
nothing in me. (That is he has found no means whereby he can tempt me
to sin) I am doing the commandments of my Father that the world will
know that l love my Father. Now let us get up and go on further. This
long involved conversation was a preparation by Christ for his
disciples for the days ahead. Christ was concerned for them that they
do not allow themselves to become too downcast when the cross comes.
They are to realise that Christ’s going will be so that the Holy
Spirit might be given and that Christ’s return will be glorious.
Christ says; if you love me keep my commandments. Christ also
encourages the disciples to pray in faith and to go on from faith in
God to faith in himself. </span>
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Jesus mean when he said I am the way, the truth and the life?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Jesus mean by I am in the Father and the Father in me?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Christ promise his disciples?</span></div>
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</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
29</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 14 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Ahijah warns Jeroboam</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise
thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get
thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me
that I should be king over this people. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey,
and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were
set by reason of his age. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to
ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt
thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she
shall feign herself to be another woman. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in
at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why
feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy
tidings. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my
people Israel, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee:
and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only
which was right in mine eyes; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast
gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to
anger, and hast cast me behind thy back: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and
will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him
that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of
the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all
gone. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD
hath spoken it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Arise thou therefore, get thee to thine own house: and when thy feet
enter into the city, the child shall die. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of
Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some
good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall
cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water,
and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to
their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they
have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did
sin, and who made Israel to sin. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when
she came to the threshold of the door, the child died; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah
the prophet. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeroboam
dies</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he
reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he
slept with this fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rehoboam
king of Judah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty
and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen
years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the
tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was
Naamah an Ammonitess. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to
jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that
their fathers had done. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on
every high hill, and under every green tree. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to
all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before
the children of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak
king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the
treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed
them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of
the king's house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD, that
the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
And Abijam his son reigned in his stead. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 15 Abijam King of Judah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned
Abijam over Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before
him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the
heart of David his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in
Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and
turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of
his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his
life. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And
there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of
David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Asa
King of Judah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over
Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did
David his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the
idols that his fathers had made. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen,
because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol,
and burnt it by the brook Kidron. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was
perfect with the LORD all his days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the
things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD,
silver, and gold, and vessels. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah,
that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of
Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the
treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's
house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa
sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king
of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy
father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold;
come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may
depart from me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the
hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and
Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of
Naphtali. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off
building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was
exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber
thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them
Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he
did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of
his old age he was diseased in his feet. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in
the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his
stead. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Nadab
King of Judah</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired
against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the
Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and
reigned in his stead. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of
Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had
destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake
by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made
Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of
Israel to anger. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their
days. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Baasha
King of Israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah
to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Kings 16</span></h3>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against
Baasha, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Forasmuch as I exalted thee out of the dust, and made thee prince
over my people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of Jeroboam,
and hast made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with
their sins; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Behold, I will take away the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity
of his house; and will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that
dieth of his in the fields shall the fowls of the air eat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah
his son reigned in his stead. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the
word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all
the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in provoking him to
anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of
Jeroboam; and because he killed him. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elah
King of Israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son
of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired
against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house
of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and
seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his
throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one
that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his
friends. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word
of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which
they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the
LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Zimri
King of Israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign
seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon,
which belonged to the Philistines. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired,
and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the
captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they
besieged Tirzah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he
went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house
over him with fire, and died, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD,
in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to
make Israel to sin. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel? </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Omri
King of Israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the
people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half
followed Omri. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that
followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign
over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver,
and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he
built, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill, Samaria. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all
that were before him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his
sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger with their vanities. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he
shewed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab
his son reigned in his stead. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ahab
King of Israel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the
son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned
over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all
that were before him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk
in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and
served Baal, and worshipped him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had
built in Samaria. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of
Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates
thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">In today’s Bible
reading we have the warning of Ahijah and the death of Jeroboam and
then we have brief descriptions of four kings of Judah and five kings
of Israel. But first we read of the interesting account of the
warning of Ahijah to Jeroboams wife. She was sent by her husband
because his son was sick and he sent her to ask what would happen to
his son. She disguised herself but she could not disguise herself to
the Lord. Ahijah was blind but the Lord told Ahijah who she was. The
message from the Lord was going to be sad. The Lord said l exalted
you and made you prince over Israel and took the kingdom from David
and gave it to you, but you have not been like David – you have
done evil in my sight - you have served other gods. So l will bring
evil on your house and all male sons will be destroyed. He that dies
of your family in the city will be eaten of dogs and in the fields by
the birds. So go back to the city because when you enter the city
your son will die and only he will be buried because there was
something good in him. When she returned the child died and was
buried and all Israel mourned for him. Then Jeroboam died, he had
reigned for 22 years. Nadab reigned in his place. Rehoboam reigned in
Judah as king from 41 yrs of age and he reigned for 17 years in
Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He allowed
false religion and he also allowed sodomites to continue their evil
practise in the land. In Rehoboam’s 6</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
year, the king of Egypt, Shishak came and took the treasures of the
House of the Lord. And he took the gold shields of Solomon. Rehoboam
made brass replicas to replace them. Then he died. In his place
Abijah reigned over Judah. He reigned for 3 yrs in Jerusalem. He did
the same evils as his father. When he died Asa reigned in Judah in
his place. He reigned for 41 yrs in Jerusalem. Asa did what was right
in the eyes of the LORD. He kicked out the sodomites from the land
and removed all the idols of his father. He prevented his mother from
being queen because she had made a grove for idol worship. He
destroyed her idol and burnt it by the brook Kidron. Asa did not
manage to destroy all the groves to idol worship but he did serve the
Lord all his days. In his old age his feet were bad and he died
leaving a reformed Judah. Nadab took the throne of Israel in the
second year of Asa, but he did what was evil in the sight of the
Lord. He reigned for one year. Baasha took the throne of Israel. He
also did evil in the sight of the LORD. The nation was getting worse
and worse. Jehu was sent by the Lord to him yet he took no notice of
the word of the Lord and died. Next we have Elah he reined over
Israel in the 26</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
year of Asa. He was raised up by the Lord to execute all the male
offspring of Baasha. Zimri then took the throne of Israel he was also
an evil king and he committed suicide by burning his house down when
he was in it. Omri then took charge. At this time Israel itself was
divided into two. Half followed Timri and half Omri, but war broke
out and Timri was killed. He reigned for 6 yrs. He did worse than all
the kings before him. He died and Ahab reigned in his place. Ahab did
evil in the sight of the Lord. His wife was Jezebel who taught him to
serve Baal. He did more to provoke the Lord to anger than any king
before him. Elijah was sent by the Lord to confront Ahab, but how
will he do it? We will see tomorrow. </span>
</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make a list of the
kings as they are recorded and notes on each king, such as
character, achievements and whether he is righteous or unrighteous.</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
29</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The
Lord predicts Peter’s denial</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">31:
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man
glorified, and God is glorified in him. 32: If God be glorified in
him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway
glorify him. 33: Little children, yet a little while I am with you.
Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye
cannot come; so now I say to you. 34: A new commandment I give unto
you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love
one another. 35: By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples,
if ye have love one to another. 36: Simon Peter said unto him, Lord,
whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not
follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37: Peter said
unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life
for thy sake. 38: Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for
my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow,
till thou hast denied me thrice. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Only
when Judas left did Jesus reveal certain truths. First he said NOW is
the Son of man glorified. God was going to reveal himself to mankind
in a manner that mankind has never known before. Here is love vast as
an ocean. Christ was going to be revealed to the world in a way that
is unsurpassed. And God was going to be revealed in it too. The
Second thing he said was that he was going away for a little while
and you will seek me but you will no find me. Then the Third thing,
he said, l want to give you a new commandment, that you love one
another; as I have loved you. This goes way beyond the commandments
of the Law. They are to love one another in the same way that Christ
loves them. How was this going to be possible? The love of God was
going to be shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Spirit. This was
going to be the sign of who is a disciple – if they have love one
to another. The Disciples did not understand what all these things
meant but later they would know the Holy Spirit would remind them and
open their eyes. Then Peter replied to the second thing Christ had
said, he said where are you going? I will follow you and lay down my
life for you. Peter had good intensions yet he didn’t have the
courage and the empowering of the Spirit of God to back it up. Jesus
replied, Peter, will you? I am telling you the absolute truth before
the cock crows you will deny me three times. How heart breaking. </span>
</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
sort of person was Peter?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
does the New Commandment mean to you?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Would
you follow Christ to the cross?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
28</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 11 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Solomon’s sins</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter
of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians,
and Hittites; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of
Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto
you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods:
Solomon clave unto these in love. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred
concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away
his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the
LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and
after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully
after the LORD, as did David his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of
Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the
abomination of the children of Ammon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense
and sacrificed unto their gods. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s
troubles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned
from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go
after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of
thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I
have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and
will give it to thy servant. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's
sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe
to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake
which I have chosen. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite:
he was of the king's seed in Edom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of
the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every
male in Edom; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had
cut off every male in Edom:) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants
with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men
with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of
Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave
him land. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave
him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the
queen. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes
weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household
among the sons of Pharaoh. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and
that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh,
Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that,
behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered,
Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliadah,
which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when
David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt
therein, and reigned in Damascus. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeroboam
is to be the Northern King</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the
mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over
Syria. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon's
servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he
lifted up his hand against the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against the king:
Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breaches of the city of David
his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing
the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the
charge of the house of Joseph. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem,
that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he
had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the
field: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in
twelve pieces: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the
LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the
hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
(But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for
Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel:) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom
the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to
do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my
judgments, as did David his father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will
make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake,
whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it
unto thee, even ten tribes. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may
have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have
chosen me to put my name there. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy
soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee,
and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep
my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will
be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and
will give Israel unto thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and
fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until
the death of Solomon. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s death</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his
wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was
forty years. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of
David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 12 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">C. The Division of the Kingdom </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Northern tribes revolt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to
make him king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in
Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king
Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That they sent and called him. And Jeroboam and all the congregation
of Israel came, and spake unto Rehoboam, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the
grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon
us, lighter, and we will serve thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to
me. And the people departed. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before
Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise
that I may answer this people? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this
people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good
words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him,
and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and
which stood before him: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this
people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father
did put upon us lighter? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying,
Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,
Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us;
thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than
my father's loins. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add
to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the
king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's
counsel that they gave him; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My
father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father
also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with
scorpions. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake
by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the
people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O
Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto
their tents. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah,
Rehoboam reigned over them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all
Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam
made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come
again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made
him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of
David, but the tribe of Judah only. </span>
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<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">War
is averted</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house
of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore
thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house
of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all
the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people,
saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your
brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for
this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the
LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jeroboam’s
false religion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and
went out from thence, and built Penuel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the
house of David: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at
Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their
lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and
go again to Rehoboam king of Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and
said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold
thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before
the one, even unto Dan. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest
of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth
day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he
offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the
calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
high places which he had made. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the
fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had
devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of
Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 13 A Prophet warns Jeroboam</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the
LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O
altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto
the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the
priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's
bones shall be burnt upon thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which the
LORD hath spoken; Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that
are upon it shall be poured out. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man
of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put
forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand,
which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull
it in again to him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar,
according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of
the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the
face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be
restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the
king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh
thyself, and I will give thee a reward. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half
thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor
drink water in this place: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat no
bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou
camest. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to
Bethel. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Prophet killed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told
him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel:
the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to
their father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had
seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the
ass: and he rode thereon, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak:
and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?
And he said, I am. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither
will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For it was said to me by the word of the LORD, Thou shalt eat no
bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that
thou camest. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake
unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee
into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied
unto him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank
water. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the
LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus
saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the
LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
commanded thee, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place,
of the which the LORD did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no
water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had
drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom
he had brought back. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and
his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion
also stood by the carcase. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and
the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the
city where the old prophet dwelt. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the
word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the
lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of
the LORD, which he spake unto him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled
him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and
the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase,
nor torn the ass. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it
upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the
city, to mourn and to bury him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him,
saying, Alas, my brother! </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his
sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein
the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the
altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made
again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests
of the high places. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it
off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the next few
chapters we see the sad decline of Solomon – his sins and his
troubles. During the closing days of his life Jeroboam revolts
against his reign and faces the spectre of a divided kingdom. But
after Solomon’s death the northern tribes revolt against the south.
A prophet of the LORD speaks to Jeroboam but looses his life in the
process. From the glories of the previous passages this is a sad
comedown. From the beginning of these chapters we see that Solomon
loved many strange women. Solomon sin was outright idolatry and this
came from the wives that he married from nations which were not
allowed to the Jews. He had Pharaohs daughter and then wives from the
Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites. Solomon’s
heart (mind) was turned away from the LORD by wives that were not
godly. He had 700 wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines and
they distracted him from complete devotion to the LORD. Ever
Christian man should take note and pray that he marries the right
woman and that her heart is faithful to the Lord. Solomon was a great
influence on his wives but when he was old they were a great
influence on him. He was not like his father who always remained
faithful to the LORD. In the end Solomon sought after Ashtoreth the
goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom the abomination of the
Ammonites. And so the epitaph reads that Solomon did evil in the
sight of the LORD. Solomon even went so far as to build a place of
worship to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab and it was in full view
of Jerusalem, and he did the same for the god Molech, the abomination
of the children of Ammon. The LORD was angry with Solomon and
commanded him to not go after idols yet he refused to hear the LORD.
The LORD told him that he would tear away the kingdom from him and
give the kingdom to his servant. Solomon must have been shocked;
however in respect to your father David l will do this when you are
dead. The LORD stirred up an enemy to Solomon Hadad the Edomite. In
the days of David Joab had gone down to Edom and killed every male
except one – Hadad. Hadad had run away to Egypt he was just a
child. Hadad was very much liked by the Egyptian king who gave him
food and a house with land. He married the sister of Pharaohs wife.
When David heard that David and Joab were dead he asked for
permission to go to his home country. Pharaoh asked why he wanted to
leave but Hadad said l want to go home. The Lord also stirred up
another enemy called Rezon who ran away when David killed his King
Zobah. He gathered a band of men and was a sort of king over them in
Damascus. He was an enemy to Solomon all his days like Hadad was.
Also a man called Jeroboam started to rebel against Solomon. He hated
Solomon because he had met a prophet of the Lord called Ahijah, who
took hold of Jeroboam and ripped his cloak into 12 pieces and told
him to take 10 of them because the Lord says he will take away the
kingdom from Solomon and give the 10 tribes to you. This was because
Solomon had worshipped Ashtoreth, Chemosh and Milcom. Then the Lord
promised the same blessing if he will serve the Lord his God as David
had done. The Lord promised to be with him and to build up his house
as he did with David. Solomon sought opportunity to kill Jeroboam so
Jeroboam ran away to Egypt and lived there until the death of
Solomon. Solomon reigned for 40 yrs and then he died and Rehoboam
reigned in his place. The kingdom was now ripe for division. Rehoboam
went to Shechem and the whole of Israel gathered to make him king and
they advised him to be kind and lenient with his people but to take a
very hard line and this split his kingdom. The old men counselled
wisdom and the young men foolishness. (No wander the rulers were
elders) The northern tribes rebelled and Judah gathered for war
180,000 chosen men. But a man of God Shemaiah told Rehoboam not to go
to war against the northern tribes. Jeroboam had to build a rival
religion in the north to prevent the people going to Jerusalem. So
Jeroboam turned the people away from worshipping the Lord in the
south because they had forsaken the Lord however he then set up a
religion based on two golden calves, one in Bethel and the other in
Dan. He also set up a false priesthood and false feasts. Then a
prophet of the Lord came to warn Jeroboam of his sin to prophesy that
a child would be born called Josiah who would offer burnt offerings
with human sacrifice. When Jeroboam heard this he put out his hand
and when he withdrew it was dried up so he pleaded with the Lord and
his hand was restored. But the altar was broken and the ash fell to
the earth. The prophet was offered food and drink but it was refused.
Then an old prophet lied to him saying that the Lord had told him to
eat. Then the word of the Lord came to him and he left on an ass but
a lion met him and killed him and the ass and lion stood by his body.
The old prophet when he heard of it went and took his body and
brought it back and mourned over him and buried him in his own grave
but he left instructions to be buried with him.</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
were the sins of Solomon?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did God respond to Solomons sin?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
happened to Solomons glorious kingdom?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
28</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
13 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Lord - washes the feet</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour
was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the
end. 2: And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the
heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him; 3: Jesus knowing
that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was
come from God, and went to God; 4: He riseth from supper, and laid
aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5: After
that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples'
feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 6:
Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost
thou wash my feet? 7: Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do
thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 8: Peter saith
unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I
wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. 9: Simon Peter saith unto
him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10: Jesus
saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet,
but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11: For he
knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
12: So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done
to you? 13: Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14: If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also
ought to wash one another's feet. 15: For I have given you an
example, that ye should do as I have done to you. 16: Verily, verily,
I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he
that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17: If ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them. 18: I speak not of you all: I
know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He
that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. 19: Now
I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may
believe that I am he. 20: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me
receiveth him that sent me. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Last Supper</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">21:
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified,
and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall
betray me. 22: Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of
whom he spake. 23: Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his
disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24: Simon Peter therefore beckoned to
him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. 25: He
then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? 26:
Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have
dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas
Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27: And after the sop Satan entered into
him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. 28: Now
no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. 29:
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had
said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the
feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. 30: He then
having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When
the main evening meal was finished Jesus rose from the meal and made
an apron with a towel. Then he poured water into a basin to wash the
disciple’s feet. When Christ came to Peter, Peter complained, Lord
will you wash my feet? Jesus said what l am going to do, you will not
understand just now, but you will understand later. Peter was
shocked. The reason why Peter was shocked is that in the hierarchy of
servants the servant who kept the door and who had the job of washing
the feet of those that came in was considered the lowest of the
slaves. Rhoda had this job in the Acts. Here Christ has come to Peter
to wash his feet the thing that lowest servant does. He blurts out;
you will never wash my feet. But Jesus says, Peter if l do not wash
you then you can have no partnership with me. Then Peter says Lord
don’t just wash my feet but also my hands and my head. Then Jesus
says he that is washed only needs to wash his feet. He is clean
completely. So, what is Jesus saying? Christ is saying through a
visual act that in the company of disciples there is a constant need
for cleansing. Yet not a total cleansing just the cleansing of the
feet. Christians are forgiven of all their sin. They are clean before
God through out, yet day by day they come into contact with the earth
and this requires a constant cleaning. Of course Peter could not
understand this. This was going to be part of the truth of NT Church
truth and Peter was not ready for that yet. Christ was not
instituting a Christian rite. He was demonstrating Christian truth.
We see the same thing when people have been swimming in the sea they
are completely clean yet they must cross the sand to their
belongings. So they carry a small pail of water and when they reach
their towel they sit on it and wash their feet. They are completely
clean but when they cross the sand and pick up contamination which
needs to be washed away. As Christians we may be forgiven but daily
we must know the cleansing of the Lord from the contamination of the
world. After Christ had washed their feet he sat down and then he
said do you know what l have done? The answer was no they didn’t
understand so Christ gives them a level of understanding that they
will comprehend. He says You call me Master and Lord and that’s
right because l am so if l have washed your feet then you also aught
to wash each others feet. Again he is not instituting a Christian
rite rather he is encouraging them to an attitude of humility with
each other. Then Jesus was deeply troubled in his spirit and he said,
one of you will betray me. They all looked at each other. Peter asked
John to ask Jesus who it would be. John asked, Lord is it me? Then
Jesus said the one who will betray me is the one who l give the bread
to and he gave it to Judas. When Judas received the bread Satan
entered into him. Then Jesus said to Judas, What you are going to do,
do it quickly. Nobody at the table knew what was going on. Some
thought that Jesus had told Judas to buy bread or to give something
to the poor from the bag. As soon as he heard this Judas went out and
it was night. Judas he would never see the light of day again. Never
was there a darker night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<br />
<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why
did Christ wash the disciples feet?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
troubled Christ at the last Supper?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
sort of person was Judas Iscariot?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
27</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
1 Kings 9 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">The Lord appears to Solomon</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the
house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire
which he was pleased to do, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared
unto him at Gibeon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy
supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this
house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine
eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in
integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I
have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever,
as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee
a man upon the throne of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children,
and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set
before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them;
and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of
my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
people: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall
be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD
done thus unto this land, and to this house? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who
brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s
other projects</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had
built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees
and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then
king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had
given him; and they pleased him not. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my
brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to
build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the
wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it
with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given
it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his
chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired
to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his
dominion. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of
Israel, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those
did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they
were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains,
and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's work,
five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought
in the work. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her
house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace
offerings upon the altar which he built unto the LORD, and he burnt
incense upon the altar that was before the LORD. So he finished the
house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside
Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge
of the sea, with the servants of Solomon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred
and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. </span>
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Kings 10 Solomon - the Queen of Sheba</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning
the name of the LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that
bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she
was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her
heart. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid
from the king, which he told her not. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom, and the
house that he had built, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the
attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers,
and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there
was no more spirit in her. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine
own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had
seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and
prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand
continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on
the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever,
therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of
spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such
abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king
Solomon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in
from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the
LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for
singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her
servants. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s
wealth and fame</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six
hundred threescore and six talents of gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the
spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors
of the country. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred
shekels of gold went to one target. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold
went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest
of Lebanon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with
the best gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind:
and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two
lions stood beside the stays. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon
the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the
vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none
were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram:
once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and
silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and
for wisdom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God
had put in his heart. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and
vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and
mules, a rate year by year. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a
thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen,
whom he bestowed in the cities for chariots, and with the king at
Jerusalem. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars
made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
abundance. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the
king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels
of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the
kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring
them out by their means. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Today we read of
Solomon having this interview with the Lord. A passage every
Christian leader should take special notice of. Then we read of
Solomon’s other projects. We read of an interesting account of the
visit of one of the rules of the Gentile world – the Queen of
Sheba. And then we read more about Solomon’s wealth and fame. The
Lord appears to Solomon a second time. The LORD says l have heard
your prayer and supplication. (Prayer is the general word to describe
intercourse with God supplication describes the particular aspect of
his prayer) The Lord says l have made this house holy which you built
and l have put my name there for ever. He says my mind and my heart
will be there perpetually. Solomon the Lord says IF you will walk
before me as David your Father did in integrity of heart, (With a
whole mind) in uprightness and do everything l tell you, keeping the
statues, and judgments and commandments. Then your dynasty will go on
forever. But if you turn away from following me, either you or your
children, and you do not keep the commandment, statues but go to
worship other gods. Then l will cut Israel out the land and take them
away from this temple. I will throw you out of my sight and all the
nations will talk of it as a proverb. They will be astonished and
hiss through their teeth and they will ask why has the LORD done this
to this land? And the answer will be obvious – they turned their
back on the Lord their God. Who redeemed them from Egypt and they
worshipped other gods. How very different is the New Covenant that
ever Christian finds him in. The Lord Jesus says I will never leave
you or forsake you. – Now go and live worthily of the calling
wherewith you are called. Twenty years passed by and Solomon had
built two great houses the Temple and his own house. Solomon repaid
Hiram by giving him 20 cities in Galilee. He was not impressed. Hiram
had sent Solomon 60 talents of gold as a contribution, to build the
temple. Solomon took tribute from all the nations that had not been
conquered in the land but he took nothing from the men of Israel.
Solomon had 550 men who administered the tribute. He also had a navy
in the gulf of Aqabar and in the Mediterranean. Solomon received 420
talents of gold. ($570,240,562) When the Queen of Sheba heard of
Solomon’s wisdom and wealth she came to see him. She came with the
hardest questions which had baffled every wise man who she had ever
known, but Solomon easily answered her questions. She was taken aback
and breathless at everything she saw. She said the half had not been
told her of Solomon’s and is wisdom. She remarked at the happiness
of his servants and blessed God who delighted in him, because the
LORD loved Israel for ever. She gave him 120 talents of gold and a
great quantity of spices and precious stones. The weight of gold that
came to Solomon was 45 tons in weight. He made 200 shields of solid
gold and 300 of gold on top of wood. He made an ivory throne over
laid with the best gold. The throne had six steps and two lions in
gold beside it. And twelve more lions surrounded the throne six on
each side. All of his drinking cups were of gold. There was so much
gold that silver was counted as worthless. He had a navy in the
Mediterranean which brought gold silver, ivory, apes and peacocks.
The whole world came to see Solomon and to hear his wisdom. The whole
world brought their gold and silver to Solomon. The question that
hangs in the air is what will happen next? Will he blow it? Will be
remain faithful to the LORD his God? We will see tomorrow. </span>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why
did the Lord appear to Solomon after he has finished the temple?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
happened when the queen of Sheba came to the Solomon?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
would you describe the wealth and fame of Solomon?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
27</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
12 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Mary’s devotion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where
Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2:
There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one
of them that sat at the table with him. 3: Then took Mary a pound of
ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the
odour of the ointment. 4: Then saith one of his disciples, Judas
Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, 5: Why was not this
ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6: This
he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief,
and had the bag, and bare what was put therein. 7: Then said Jesus,
Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. 8:
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always. 9:
Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they
came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also,
whom he had raised from the dead. 10: But the chief priests consulted
that they might put Lazarus also to death; 11: Because that by reason
of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Lord enters Jerusalem</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">12:
On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13: Took branches of palm
trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the
King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. 14: And Jesus,
when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, 15:
Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an
ass's colt. 16: These things understood not his disciples at the
first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these
things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto
him. 17: The people therefore that was with him when he called
Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
18: For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that
he had done this miracle. 19: The Pharisees therefore said among
themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is
gone after him. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Lord predicts his death</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">20:
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at
the feast: 21: The same came therefore to Philip, which was of
Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see
Jesus. 22: Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and
Philip tell Jesus. 23: And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is
come, that the Son of man should be glorified. 24: Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. 25: He
that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in
this world shall keep it unto life eternal. 26: If any man serve me,
let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if
any man serve me, him will my Father honour. 27: Now is my soul
troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but
for this cause came I unto this hour. 28: Father, glorify thy name.
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified
it, and will glorify it again. 29: The people therefore, that stood
by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake
to him. 30: Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of
me, but for your sakes. 31: Now is the judgment of this world: now
shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32: And I, if I be lifted
up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33: This he said,
signifying what death he should die. 34: The people answered him, We
have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how
sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of
man? 35: Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light
with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you:
for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. 36:
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the
children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did
hide himself from them. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">People
do not believe the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">37:
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they
believed not on him: 38: That the saying of Esaias the prophet might
be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and
to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? 39: Therefore they
could not believe, because that Esaias said again, 40: He hath
blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not
see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be
converted, and I should heal them. 41: These things said Esaias, when
he saw his glory, and spake of him. 42: Nevertheless among the chief
rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they
did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
43: For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Faith
in the Lord</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">44:
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me,
but on him that sent me. 45: And he that seeth me seeth him that sent
me. 46: I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
me should not abide in darkness. 47: And if any man hear my words,
and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world,
but to save the world. 48: He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my
words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the
same shall judge him in the last day. 49: For I have not spoken of
myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what
I should say, and what I should speak. 50: And I know that his
commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even
as the Father said unto me, so I speak. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Six
days before the Passover on the Sabbath, Jesus came to Bethany where
Lazarus was. Martha served and Mary came and anointed Christ. Mary
took a pound of very precious ointment to anoint the feet of Jesus
she wiped it with her hair and the aroma of the ointment filled the
house. Judas complained at the so called waste. He said it was worth
nearly a year’s wages. (In 2010 about £17.000.) John records his
thoughts about Judas. He says he didn’t care for the poor but was
obsessed with money. Jesus told Judas to leave her alone. This
wonderful act of worship was like a red rag to Judas. He was all take
but Mary was all give. They could not understand each other. This act
of worship is told wherever the Gospel is preached. The Lord and Mary
carried the remnant of her worship for a long time. People came now
not just to see Jesus but to look at Lazarus. The religious leaders
plotted to murder Lazarus. On the following day Jesus entered into
Jerusalem on the donkey. And the people gathered and cut palm
branches for him to walk on. The Disciples didn’t understand all
this. The Greeks were probably proselytes who attached themselves to
Israel and they wanted to see Jesus. They approached Philip who told
Andrew and together they came to Jesus. This Passover week was to be
Christ’s hour when he would be glorified. Then he said, ‘Verily,
verily, Truth, truth, unless a grain of wheat is buried it remains
one grain but if it is buried, it produces much grain. Then he told
of the contrary attitude of those who are blessed they think of the
future life and their love for it is so great that this mortal life
is like hatred in comparison. These people with experience
resurrection to immortal life. Then he said if you want to be my
servants then follow me in this. Then Christ confessed great trouble
of soul over his future And he said what do l ask of the father do l
ask to be delivered from this hour? This hour is by destiny. Then he
cried, ‘Father, glorify thy name’. And his Father responded ‘I
have both glorified it, and will glorify it again’. Some people who
stood nearby only heard a rumble like thunder. Some said an angel
spoke. Then Christ said, ‘now is the judgment of this world: now
shall the prince of this world be cast out’. Christ was describing
a momentous event. God himself was going to judge the world in the
atoning sacrifice of his Son. And in the crucifixion Christ would
draw all men unto him. This is not saying that all men will be saved
what he is saying is that in the cross Christ was going to become to
point of contact of men with God. Then the people were confused about
what Christ had said. They understood that the Messiah would be
eternal and they could not understand Christ’s reference to a
cross. Christ said, ‘l am only here for a short while you are to
live in the light that l bring’. Then Jesus departed to a secret
place. The people did not believe in him inspite of all his signs.
Isaiah the prophet was right in him prophecy when he said who will
believe our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? And
they were unable to believe because Isaiah also said, ‘God hath
blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts so that they will not
believe and be converted and Christ would heal them. Isaiah saw the
glory of Christ when he said these things. However there were many
among the chief rulers that did believe in him but they did not
confess him openly because they were afraid of the excommunication of
the Pharisees. They loved the praise of men rather than the praise of
God. Christ again called upon Israel to believe in him. He outlined
his whole message declaring himself to be the light of the world and
the Saviour of men. </span>
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did Mary express her devotion to Christ.</span></div>
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did it mean for Christ to enter into Jerusalem?</span></div>
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<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
do you feel about those who refused to believe in Christ and those
who did?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
26</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 6 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Solomon builds the Temple</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the
children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth
year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the
second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits,
and the height thereof thirty cubits. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the
length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits
was the breadth thereof before the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about,
against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of
the oracle: and he made chambers round about: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six
cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in
the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the
beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready
before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor
axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in
building. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house:
and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out
of the middle into the third. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with
beams and boards of cedar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high:
and they rested on the house with timber of cedar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk
in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my
commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee,
which I spake unto David thy father: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake
my people Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Solomon built the house, and finished it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both
the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered
them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with
planks of fir. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor
and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within,
even for the oracle, even for the most holy place. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open
flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark
of the covenant of the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and
twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof:
and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was
of cedar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a
partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it
with gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all
the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid
with gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten
cubits high. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the
other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing
unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one
measure and one size. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the
other cherub. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched
forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched
the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other
wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and
without. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the
lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them
carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid
them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm
trees. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a
fourth part of the wall. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door
were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and
covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a
row of cedar beams. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid,
in the month Zif: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth
month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and
according to all the fashion of it. So was he sev</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">en
years in building it. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 Kings 7 Solomon’s
other projects</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">1:</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
But S</span></span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">olomon
was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his
house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof
was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the
height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with
cedar beams upon the pillars. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty
five pillars, fifteen in a row. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in
three ranks. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light
was against light in three ranks. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits,
and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them:
and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the
porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the
floor to the other. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch,
which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's
daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed
stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation
unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of
ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and
cedars. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones,
and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of
the LORD, and for the porch of the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a
man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and
understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to
king Solomon, and wrought all his work. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon
builds the Temple porch</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and
a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of
the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the
height of the other chapiter was five cubits: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the
chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one
chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one
network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with
pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily
work in the porch, four cubits. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above,
over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates
were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up
the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up
the left pillar, and he called the name thereof Boaz. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the
pillars finished. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Furnishing
for the Temple</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other:
it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of
thirty cubits did compass it round about. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it,
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast
in two rows, when it was cast. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three
looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and
three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them,
and all their hinder parts were inward. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought
like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two
thousand baths. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one
base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the
height of it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and
the borders were between the ledges: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and
cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath
the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the
four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but
the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and
an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their
borders, foursquare, not round. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the
wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit
and a half a cubit. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel:
their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their
spokes, were all molten. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and
the undersetters were of the very base itself. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit
high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders
thereof were of the same. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof,
he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the
proportion of every one, and additions round about. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting,
one measure, and one size. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths:
and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases
one laver. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the
left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the
house eastward over against the south. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram
made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the
house of the LORD: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the
top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls
of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of
pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters
that were upon the pillars; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels,
which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of
bright brass. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground
between Succoth and Zarthan. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">47:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were
exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">48:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the
LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
shewbread was, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">49:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five
on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and
the tongs of gold, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">50:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and
the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors
of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the
house, to wit, of the temple. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">51:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the
LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put
among the treasures of the house of the LORD. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 8 The Ark brought into the Temple</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the
tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king
Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the
covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at
the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the
congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle,
even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were
assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep
and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto
his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even
under the wings of the cherubims. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the
ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen
out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
without: and there they are unto this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which
Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy
place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud:
for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon
speaks to the people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in thick
darkness. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for
thee to abide in for ever. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation
of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his
mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it,
saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I
chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that
my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people
Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the
name of the LORD God of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart
to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine
heart. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall
come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house unto my name.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up
in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as
the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD
God of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of
the LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of
the land of Egypt. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s
prayer</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all
the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven
above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy
servants that walk before thee with all their heart: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst
him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with
thine hand, as it is this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my
father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a
man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children
take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked
before me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified,
which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven
of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have
builded? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his
supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the
prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even
toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there:
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make
toward this place. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy
people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou
in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon
him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in
this house: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning
the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the
righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they
have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess
thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel,
and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
fathers. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have
sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy
name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of
thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they
should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to
thy people for an inheritance. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,
mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege
them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever
sickness there be; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy
people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own
heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and
give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest;
(for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of
men;) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which
thou gavest unto our fathers. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but
cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and
of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this
house; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that
the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may
know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they
may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy
name. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever
thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city
which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for
thy name: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and
maintain their cause. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and
thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they
carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">47:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were
carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the
land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">48:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their
soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and
pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their
fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">49:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy
dwelling place, and maintain their cause, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">50:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee and all their
transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give
them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may
have compassion on them: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">51:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest
forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">52:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and
unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in
all that they call for unto thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">53:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth,
to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy
servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon’s
charge to the people</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">54:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this
prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar
of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to
heaven. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">55:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud
voice, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">56:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest unto his people Israel,
according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of
all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his
servant. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">57:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not
leave us, nor forsake us: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">58:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and
to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which
he commanded our fathers. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">59:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the
LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain
the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all
times, as the matter shall require: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">60:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and
that there is none else. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">61:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in
his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sacrifices
and Celebrations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">62:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the
LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">63:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered
unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and
twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel
dedicated the house of the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">64:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was
before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings,
and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the
brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the
burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace
offerings. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">65:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a
great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of
Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven days, even
fourteen days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">66:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king,
and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the
goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel
his people. </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">In Chapters 6, 7 &
8 we read of the building of the temple by King Solomon. First he
builds the temple and then the porch. And then he furnishes the
temple and the Ark of the Covenant is brought to the temple. Then we
have the dedication of the temple which begins with a speech by
Solomon and a prayer of dedication and then he gives a solemn charge
to the people. Then he offers the sacrifices and lastly the
celebrations begin. It was 480 years after the children of Israel
came out of the land of Egypt before the temple was begun. It took
seven years to build it and three years to furnish it. That makes 490
years from the Exodus or 70 weeks of years 70x7=490 years. The period
from Abraham to the Exodus was also 490 years or seventy weeks of
years. What Solomon didn’t know was that another 490 years later it
would be destroyed by the Babylonians when Nebuchadnezzar took Judah
captive. Solomon began building in the 4</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
year of his reign. The dimensions of the temple were as follows. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Length
60 cubits 80 ft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Breadth
20 cubits 15 ft</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Height
30 cubits 22½ ft </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">The
Porch was </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Length
20 cubits 15 ft</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Breadth
10 cubits 7½ ft</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">In the house he
made narrow windows. And leaning into the wall all around he made
rooms on three stories. A winding stair led up to the upper floors.
The entire temple was made of stone and the stones were cut and
worked off site. No sound of a hammer was heard in all its
construction. Then the Lord spoke to Solomon saying that if he lived
according to the statutes, judgments and commandments then the LORD
would keep his promises to him. (Under law the promises were
conditional on obedience) The Lord promised to be with Israel and not
forsake them. Inside the house the walls were panelled in cedar, no
stone was seen anywhere. The whole of the inside panelling was
overlaid with gold. Inside the most holy place Solomon made two
angels in gold – 10 cubits or 7½ ft high. The wings of the
cherubim touch each other and they touched the walls each side. On
the walls all around he carved cherubim’s, palm trees and open
flowers. The floor was overlaid with gold. The door of the holy place
was made of Olive wood. The doors, door posts and lintel were all
Olive. They also had carvings of cherubim, palm trees and flowers and
they were covered in gold. The main doors of the temple were made of
pine they were bi-fold doors on both sides. They also had the same
carvings and gold covering. Then we digress to see what other
projects Solomon also built. First he built a house for himself which
took thirteen years to build. It was bigger than the Temple. It was
built of stone and cedar wood. He also built a house for his Egyptian
wife. Then we come back to the Temple. Solomon built a porch for the
temple. And he cast two pillars of brass 13½ ft high. And on top of
each pillar was a capitol of 3¾ ft high. The right pillar he called
Jachin and the left pillar he called Boaz. Then after seven years of
building he had to furnish it. The first thing he made was a large
bath made of molten brass, 7½ ft across from lip to lip and 3¾ ft
high. Underneath were twelve oxen three facing the four points of the
compass. The Bath was 4 inches thick and contained 12,000 gallons of
water or 45½ cubic metres. Then we get a lot of instructions for
things that are hard to understand. All of these things were made of
bright brass. They were cast in the clay near to Succoth and Zarthan.
When everything was completed Solomon sent for the Ark of the
Covenant and it was taken from the Tabernacle into the most holy
place and the slaves were removed. And then when everyone had left
the temple the glory of the LORD filled the place. No one could stand
there because of the glory of the LORD. Then Solomon told the Lord
what he had done and he turned and blessed the people. Then Solomon
prayed. This is perhaps the longest prayer in the Bible. He blessed
God because he is the covenant keeping God. Then he asked the Lord to
keep the promises that he made to his servant David. He said the
heaven of heavens cannot contain you much less this house which l
have built. He said when any man prays toward this house may his
prayer be heard and forgive him of his sin. He says (And this is pure
law) When your people are beaten by their enemy because they have
sinned and when they turn again to you (repentance) and confess your
name and pray and plead to you in this place – then hear in heaven
and forgive their sin and bring them again into the land which you
gave to their fathers. When the skies are shut up and there is no
rain because they have sinned if they pray toward this place and
confess your name and turn from their sin when you afflict them, then
hear and give rain in the land. And Solomon goes on to describe the
many disciplines of the Lord. He speaks of disease, blasting, mildew,
locust, caterpillar, enemies, plague and sickness. (When Christ came
he found the whole nation sick and dying and groaning under a Roman
yoke and called on Israel to turn back to the Lord their God) Then he
speaks over the next 490 years to a time when Judah will be
transported to another land he says when they return to you with all
their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies
then hear their prayer and bring them home. Then Solomon rose from
off his knees and stands before the people and brings a solemn charge
to the people. He blessed the LORD who had brought them out of Egypt
and brought them into the land. He said May the LORD be with us as he
was with our Fathers. He says may the LORD not leave us or forsake
us. (How very different to the New Covenant in which Jesus says I
will never leave you or forsake you) And may all the earth know that
the LORD is God and that there is no other God. So be perfect before
the Lord and live in his laws and keep his commandments. Then Solomon
offered sacrifices before the LORD - 22,000 oxen, 120,000 sheep. Then
Solomon held a feast which lasted for 14 days and all the kings of
the earth were invited. </span>
</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
remarkable things do you notice about the temple?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
do you notice in Solomons prayer of dedication?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
celebration goes into the dedication of the Temple?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-41149390051495468092015-04-25T22:26:00.003+01:002015-04-25T22:26:42.607+01:00AM April 26th John 11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
26</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John 11</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sign
7 The Lord & Lazarus. (Life)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">38:
Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was
a cave, and a stone lay upon it. 39: Jesus said, Take ye away the
stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord,
by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. 40: Jesus
saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe,
thou shouldest see the glory of God? 41: Then they took away the
stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his
eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 42: And
I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which
stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. 43:
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus,
come forth. 44: And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot
with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus
saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Religious
leaders hatred</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">45:
Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things
which Jesus did, believed on him. 46: But some of them went their
ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done. 47:
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and
said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. 48: If we let him
thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come
and take away both our place and nation. 49: And one of them, named
Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye
know nothing at all, 50: Nor consider that it is expedient for us,
that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation
perish not. 51: And this spake he not of himself: but being high
priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that
nation; 52: And not for that nation only, but that also he should
gather together in one the children of God that were scattered
abroad. 53: Then from that day forth they took counsel together for
to put him to death. 54: Jesus therefore walked no more openly among
the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into
a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples. 55:
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the
country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
56: Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they
stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the
feast? 57: Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a
commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it,
that they might take him. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jesus
was overcome with grief and when he came to the cave he found a stone
across the entrance. When he asked for the stone to be taken away
Martha objected because she assumed that the body would now be
stinking. Christ encouraged her to believe in him. When the stone was
rolled away Jesus gave thanks. Then Jesus cried with a loud voice
Lazarus, come forth. And Lazarus came out of the cave still bound in
the grave clothes. Notice the difference between Christ’s
resurrection and Lazarus. Christ passed through the grave clothes but
Lazarus was still bound. Lazarus was raised back to mortal life but
Christ to immortal life. Lazarus was going to die again Christ was
raised in the power of an endless life. The Jews who had come with
Mary believed on Jesus when they saw the miracle. Some went to tell
the Pharisees of this miracle. The Chief priests and the Pharisees
met to discuss this messianic sign. Would they start a Messianic
investigation? Caiaphas put forward the idea that it was better to
murder Christ than for all the people to perish under the hands of
the Romans. As high priest that year he had prophesied that Jesus
should die for the nation and not for that nation only, but that also
he should gather together in one the children of God that were
scattered abroad. (This was what Christ said in 10v16) The Jewish
council agreed that Christ should be put to death; they were going to
find a way to murder him. Christ withdrew to the wilderness. Again
the Passover came around and the Jews sought for Jesus at the feast.
The order had gone out to arrest him on sight. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did Christ call Lazarus back from the dead?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
was the public reaction to this resurrection?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did the religious leaders decide would be their best response?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-3224243955752851762015-04-25T07:21:00.003+01:002015-04-25T07:21:40.568+01:00PM April 25th 1 Kings 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
25</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 4 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Solomon’s Officials</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So king Solomon was king over all Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And these were the princes which he had; Azariah the son of Zadok the
priest, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Elihoreph and Ahiah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son
of Ahilud, the recorder. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host: and Zadok and
Abiathar were the priests: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the
son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king's friend: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was
over the tribute. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided
victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year
made provision. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and
Elon-beth-hanan: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the
land of Hepher: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon to wife: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and
all Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean
to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of
Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained
the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with
walls and brasen bars: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon
to wife: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of
Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the
only officer which was in the land. </span>
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<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon
prospers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in
multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of
the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents,
and served Solomon all the days of his life. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine
flour, and threescore measures of meal, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred
sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from
Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and
he had peace on all sides round about him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under
his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and
twelve thousand horsemen. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all
that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month: they
lacked nothing. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they
unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his
charge. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the
east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman,
and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all
nations round about. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
and five. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even
unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of
beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all
kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 5 Solomon prepares the build</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had
heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for
Hiram was ever a lover of David. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto
the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on
every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, so that
there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my
God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I
will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my
name. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of
Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee
will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt
appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can
skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he
rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the LORD this day, which hath
given unto David a wise son over this great people. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have considered the things which
thou sentest to me for: and I will do all thy desire concerning
timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I
will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt
appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou
shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving
food for my household. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Hiram gave Solomon cedar trees and fir trees according to all his
desire. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to
his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to
Hiram year by year. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was
peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was
thirty thousand men. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he sent them to Lebanon ten thousand a month by courses: a month
they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over
the levy. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and
fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the work,
three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that
wrought in the work. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones,
and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the
stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
</span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In today’s Bible
reading we have the list of those officials that held office in
Solomon’s kingdom. We also read that Solomon is prospered by the
Lord is immense wealth and influence. And lastly we see that Solomon
s not a warrior like his father but he is a builder. Let’s look at
the princes and officials that enabled Solomon to rule is kingdom.</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Azariah
Prime minister </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Elihoreph
and Ahiah Scribes; </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Jehoshaphat
Recorder. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Benaiah
Head of the army</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Zadok
and Abiathar The priests: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Zabud
The principal officer under Azariah</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Ahishar
The royal household: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adoniram
The minister of Income from the nations</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Solomon
appointed twelve officers over all Israel who provided food for the
king and his household: each man had a month of provision to organise
each year. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1.
The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2.
The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and
Elon-beth-hanan: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3.
The son of Hesed, in Aruboth; to him pertained Sochoh, and all the
land of Hepher: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4.
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the
daughter of Solomon to wife: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5.
The son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all
Beth-shean, which is by Zartanah </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">beneath Jezreel,
from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, even unto the place that is beyond
Jokneam: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6.
The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of
Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Gilead; to him also
pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great
cities with walls </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">and
brasen bars: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7.
Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8.
Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon
to wife: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9.
Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10.
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11.
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin: </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12.
Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of
Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">king
of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">It’s
interesting that for a long time the ten northern tribes and the two
southern tribes had taken a different stand on many issues. In
David’s day it was Judah that always stood by David and the ten
tribes of Israel went to war with the southern tribes. After Solomon,
these divisions would become more focused again but during the years
of Solomon’s reign they were held together in peace. Solomon’s
kingdom was known for its peace. And the nations which had been
defeated by David never raised themselves up against Israel. We have
here a list of the huge amount of food that Solomon provided for his
own table. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30
measures of fine flour, </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">60
measures of meal, </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10
fat oxen, </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20
oxen out of the pastures, </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">100
sheep, </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Along
with harts, roebucks, fallow deer, fatted fowl. </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Solomon had
dominion over a huge area from Babylon to Egypt and the LORD gave him
peace all around. Solomon had 40,000 horses for chariots and 12,000
Calvary men. Go gave to Solomon wisdom and understanding in a very
large breath of knowledge and a huge intellect. Solomon exceeded the
wisest of men of the east and all the cleverness of Egypt. He was
wiser than the wisest of men including Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman,
Chalcol and Darda. The fame of Solomon went around the whole earth.
He spoke 3,000 proverbs: and he wrote 1,005 songs. He spoke of every
living thing from botany to zoology. People came from every nation to
hear of his wisdom. Hiram the king of Tyre sent a message of good
will to Solomon because he was in good relations with David. Solomon
sent a message to Hiram telling him that he wished to build a house
for the LORD. Hiram was delighted and blessed the LORD because he had
given such a wise son to succeed him. Hiram provided all the cedars
that Solomon required. Solomon paid in him goods. 20,000 measures of
wheat and 20 measures of oil, every year. Solomon sent 30,000 men to
Lebanon as workers. He sent them to work for one month 10,000 at a
time. They were 1 month in Lebanon and two months at home. Solomon
had 70,000 that bore burdens and 60,000 lumberjacks in the mountains.
3,300 men were required to do the work of building. And they brought
stones from the quarries to build the foundations of the temple. </span>
</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did God bless Solomon?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
do we learn from the table of Solomon about the greatness of his
kingdom?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
great was the kingdom that Solomon established?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-22054842987856563782015-04-25T07:15:00.004+01:002015-04-25T07:15:48.146+01:00AM April 25th John 11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
25</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
11 </span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Lord hears of Lazarus</span></span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of
Mary and her sister Martha. 2: (It was that Mary which anointed the
Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother
Lazarus was sick.) 3: Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying,
Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4: When Jesus heard that,
he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God,
that the Son of God might be glorified thereby. 5: Now Jesus loved
Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. 6: When he had heard therefore
that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he
was. 7: Then after that saith he to his disciples, Let us go into
Judaea again. 8: His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late
sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again? 9: Jesus
answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in
the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
10: But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no
light in him. 11: These things said he: and after that he saith unto
them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out
of sleep. 12: Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do
well. 13: Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he
had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. 14: Then said Jesus unto them
plainly, Lazarus is dead. 15: And I am glad for your sakes that I was
not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto
him. 16: Then said Thomas, which is called Didymus, unto his
fellowdisciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him. </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Lord comforts Mary & Martha</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">17:
Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four
days already. 18: Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen
furlongs off: 19: And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to
comfort them concerning their brother. 20: Then Martha, as soon as
she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still
in the house. 21: Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst
been here, my brother had not died. 22: But I know, that even now,
whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee. 23: Jesus
saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 24: Martha saith unto
him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last
day. 25: Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he
that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: 26: And
whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou
this? 27: She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the
Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. 28: And
when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister
secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee. 29: As
soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him. 30: Now
Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where
Martha met him. 31: The Jews then which were with her in the house,
and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and
went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep
there. 32: Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she
fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been
here, my brother had not died. 33: When Jesus therefore saw her
weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in
the spirit, and was troubled, 34: And said, Where have ye laid him?
They said unto him, Lord, come and see. 35: Jesus wept. 36: Then said
the Jews, Behold how he loved him! 37: And some of them said, Could
not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that
even this man should not have died? </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This
is the next Messianic sign. The Jews had long thought that when a man
dies the spirit remains around for three days in case someone might
raise the dead man from the dead. But they also thought that after
three days the spirit returns to God and then only the Messiah
himself would be able to raise the dead from four days and onward.
Lazarus a close friend of Christ falls sick and dies. Messages are
sent to Jesus but strangely he doesn’t come when called. Christ
waits for the fourth day. When he does arrive the people are mourning
and the sisters of Lazarus say, If you had been here our brother
would not have died but even now we believe that God will hear you.
Jesus gave her hope saying he will rise again. Martha replied, we
know that he will rise again in the resurrection (the resurrection of
the righteous prior to the Kingdom) then Jesus surprised her saying,
‘I am the resurrection, and the life’. Then we went on to explain
that those who are believers in Christ is safe in Christ’s care
even if they die. He said, ‘he that believes in me, though he dies
yet he shall live again’. And then he added, ‘and whoever lives
and believes in me will never die – Do you believe this’? This
prophecy has a double fulfilment. It applies to those who are
believers in Christ who are facing the Tribulation period. But it
also applies to those who at this time were not revealed in the
purposes of God, who will constitute the Church which is his body.
They will be also called to heaven but before the Tribulation. For
both groups of believers Christ says that those who are believers who
die before Christ’s coming will be raised and those who are alive
at his coming will be transformed and never die. Martha replied that
she knew that Jesus was the Christ – the Son of God. Then she left
to run to Mary because Christ sent her to fetch her. When Mary
arrived and Jesus saw the Jews weeping he was overcome with emotion
and he wept with them. The Jews wondered whether Jesus could have
prevented his death yet they did not think that now after four days
Jesus could raise Lazarus. Only Israel’s Messiah could do that.</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
happened to Lazarus and what did Jesus do about it?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Christ tell Martha when she came to meet him?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Jesus mean by, I am the resurrection and the life? </span>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-50971968511512702352015-04-23T22:41:00.004+01:002015-04-23T22:41:43.062+01:00PM April 24th 1 Kings 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
24</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 1
Kings 1 </span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">A. The End of David David approaches death</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him
with clothes, but he gat no heat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord
the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let
her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king
may get heat. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel,
and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered
to him: but the king knew her not. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adonijah
usurps the throne</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be
king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run
before him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast
thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare
him after Absalom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the
priest: and they following Adonijah helped him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the
prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to
David, were not with Adonijah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of
Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the
king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon
his brother, he called not. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying,
Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and
David our lord knoweth it not? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou
mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou,
my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon
thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why
then doth Adonijah reign? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Behold, while thou yet talkest there with the king, I also will come
in after thee, and confirm thy words. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king
was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king
said, What wouldest thou? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by the LORD thy God unto
thine handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after
me, and he shall sit upon my throne. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now, behold, Adonijah reigneth; and now, my lord the king, thou
knowest it not: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and
hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and
Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not
called. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that
thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the
king after him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Otherwise it sall come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep
with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also
came in. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when
he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with
his face to the ground. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall
reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and
sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the
captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat
and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the
son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it
unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king
after him? </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Solomon
anointed King</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath-sheba. And she came
into the king's presence, and stood before the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed
my soul out of all distress, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Even as I sware unto thee by the LORD God of Israel, saying,
Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon
my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did reverence
to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the
king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your
lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring
him down to Gihon: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king
over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king
Solomon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit upon my
throne; for he shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to
be ruler over Israel and over Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen:
the LORD God of my lord the king say so too. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with
Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king
David. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and
caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to
Gihon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and
anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said,
God save king Solomon. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the
sound of them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they
had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the
trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an
uproar? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the
priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a
valiant man, and bringest good tidings. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king
David hath made Solomon king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the
prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and
the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king's
mule: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in
Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city
rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">47:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David,
saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make
his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon
the bed. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">48:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And also thus said the king, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which
hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing
it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">49:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid, and rose up,
and went every man his way. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">50:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and
caught hold on the horns of the altar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">51:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, Adonijah feareth king
Solomon: for, lo, he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar,
saying, Let king Solomon swear unto me to day that he will not slay
his servant with the sword. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">52:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall
not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be
found in him, he shall die. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">53:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And
he came and bowed himself to king Solomon: and Solomon said unto him,
Go to thine house. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1
Kings 2 David’s advice to Solomon</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged
Solomon his son, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew
thyself a man; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep
his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his
testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest
prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest
thyself: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me,
saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in
truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not
fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me,
and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto
Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew,
and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his
girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his
feet. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go
down to the grave in peace. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But shew kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let
them be of those that eat at thy table: for so they came to me when I
fled because of Absalom thy brother. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite
of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I
went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware
to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the
sword. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and
knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring
thou down to the grave with blood. </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">David dies - buried
in Bethlehem</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
</span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven
years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in
Jerusalem. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom
was established greatly. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">B.
The Reign of Solomon Solomon takes control</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bath-sheba the mother of
Solomon. And she said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say
on. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all
Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the
kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his
from the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto
him, Say on. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will
not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for
Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto
her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the
king's mother; and she sat on his right hand. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say
me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will
not say thee nay. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy
brother to wife. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou
ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom
also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar
the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and
more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own
life. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now therefore, as the LORD liveth, which hath established me, and set
me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house,
as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and
he fell upon him that he died. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth,
unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not
at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the
Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted
in all wherein my father was afflicted. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that
he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the
house of Eli in Shiloh. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though
he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the
LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle
of the LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Benaiah came to the tabernacle of the LORD, and said unto him,
Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die
here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said
Joab, and thus he answered me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him,
and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which
Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the LORD shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon
two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the
sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of
Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether,
captain of the host of Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab, and upon
the head of his seed for ever: but upon David, and upon his seed, and
upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace for ever
from the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew
him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the
host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build
thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence
any whither. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the
brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die:
thy blood shall be upon thine own head. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the
king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem
many days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the
servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath.
And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to
seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from
Gath. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath,
and was come again. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not
make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee, saying, Know
for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any
wither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The word
that I have heard is good. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment
that I have charged thee with? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the wickedness
which thine heart is privy to, that thou didst to David my father:
therefore the LORD shall return thy wickedness upon thine own head;
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be
established before the LORD for ever. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out,
and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in
the hand of Solomon. </span>
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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he
had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD,
and the wall of Jerusalem round about. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house
built unto the name of the LORD, until those days. </span>
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asks for wisdom</span></div>
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And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his
father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the
great high place: a thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon
that altar. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God
said, Ask what I shall give thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father
great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in
righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast
kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to
sit on his throne, as it is this day. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of
David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go
out or come in. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen,
a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy
people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to
judge this thy so great a people? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast
not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for
thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for
thyself understanding to discern judgment; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a
wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee
before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both
riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings
like unto thee all thy days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my
commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy
days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to
Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and
offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a
feast to all his servants. </span>
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Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and
stood before him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one
house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that
this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no
stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
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And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while
thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead
child in my bosom. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was
dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not
my son, which I did bear. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead
is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the
living is my son. Thus they spake before the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and
thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the
dead, and my son is the living. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before
the king. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to
the one, and half to the other. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for
her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her
the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it
be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no
wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and
they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him,
to do judgment. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Today we arrive at
the book which we call 1 Kings. 1 Kings is about King Solomon &
Elijah the Prophet. The book shows the history of those who obey God
and those who disobey. 1 Kings outlines firstly the glorious reign of
King Solomon, when Israel takes centre stage in world affairs. Then
the book shows that internal division brings ruin and moral collapse.
First and Second Kings are one book in the Hebrew Bible. First Kings
records the division of the Kingdom and Second Kings the collapse of
the Kingdom. In the first few chapters we have described the last
days of David. We find that Adonijah tries to take the throne but
eventually Solomon is anointed king. Then David gives advice to
Solomon before he dies and then finally Solomon takes control and he
has this interview with the Lord in a dream in which he asks for
wisdom. And then we read of an example of this wisdom displayed.
David was now old and the years had taken their toll. He was in his
bed but couldn’t get warm so his servants suggested that they find
a young girl to lie with him to warm him up. So they found a young
girl called Abishag. She lay in the bed next to David and gave him
warmth. David did not have sexual union with her. In those days
Adonijah tried to promote himself to take the throne of Israel. He
found that a few people were prepared to follow him like Joab and
Abiathar but Zadok the priest, Benaiah, Nathan the prophet, Shimei
and Rei and all the mighty men, were with David. Abiathar killed
sheep and oxen but David’s men didn’t attend the sacrifice.
Nathan went and spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon to tell her
that Adonijah had set himself up as king and David didn’t know it.
So he said l want to give you advice that will save your life and
your son Solomon’s life. Go to David and ask him, didn’t you say
that Solomon would be king after you? So why does Adonijah reign? And
when you have finished speaking l will come in after you and confirm
to David that this is true. So Bathsheba came to David and Abishag
was there with David looking after him. David said, what would you
like me to do for you? And she told him everything. Then she said all
Israel is looking to you to hear from you who will succeed you as
king. If you die without this being made clear then me and my child
are at risk of our lives. Nathan came in and confirmed everything
that Bathsheba had said. Nathan said we need to know who will be king
after you. David asked for Bathsheba to be called again and she came
in to David’s presence and stood before him. David said to her,
Solomon will definitely reign over Israel after me. Then David called
for Zadok, Nathan and Benaiah and he said take Solomon on his own
mule and bring him to Gihon and both Zadok and Nathan are to anoint
him there as king of Israel. And then blow the trumpet to summon
Israel and proclaim him king. So this they did and when Adonijah
heard the trumpet he stopped his feasting and all his guests were
afraid. Adonijah was so afraid that he went and held on to the horns
of the altar thinking that he would be safe there. And he sent a
message to Solomon saying, please do not hurt me. Solomon replied if
your do right you will live but if you wrong you will die. Now go
home to your house. This brought to an end any attempt of Adonijah
taking the throne of Israel. Next David had things to say to Solomon
before he died so he called him to his bed. He said to him, be strong
and show yourself a man. Keep the responsibility that God has given
you by walking in the ways of the Lord, keeping his statues,
commandments, judgments and testimonies according to the Law of
Moses. If you do this you will prosper in all that you do. In this
way my dynasty will continue and if your children follow your example
then there will never be a time when Israel has no king to reign over
them. He said, you know the things that Joab has done - killing men
in time of peace, You do what your wisdom tells you. Do not let his
white hair go to its grave in peace. You must show kindness to the
sons of Barzillai because they were kind to me when l fled from
Absalom your brother. Shimei cursed me when l went to Mahanaim and l
promised not to kill him but l do not want you to hold back from him.
You are a wise man and you know how to deal with him, to bring his
white head down to the grave. And so David expressed to Solomon that
he trusted him and he knows that he has wisdom to bring kindness and
justice to Israel. David died and was buried in his own city. David
had reigned for 40 years. Solomon sat on his father’s throne.
Adonijah came to Bathsheba and Bathsheba said, have you come in peace
and he replied, yes. Then he said, will you give me Abishag for my
wife? Bathsheba said, l will ask the king. She came and asked Solomon
and he said, for this great sin he will die today. Solomon sent and
had him executed. Then Abiathar the priest said to Solomon, you will
leave this place because you are worthy of death, but l will not kill
you yet because you carry the burden of the Ark of the Lord. Solomon
threw Abithar the priest out. Joab was afraid because he had
supported Adonijah even though he had not supported Absalom and he
fled to the altar and hung on to its horns. Solomon sent Benaiah to
execute him and called him to come out of the Tabernacle but he said,
No l will die here. Benaiah told Solomon what he said so Solomon
said, kill him there and bury him because he murdered two men who
were more righteous than himself and David did not know about it.
Benaiah went and executed him and buried him. Benaiah became captain
over Solomon’s forces. Then Solomon told Shimei that he would be
safe in Jerusalem but that if he left the city he would be executed
for murder. He stayed for three years but then he went to Gaza.
Benaiah executed Shimei and the kingdom was established under
Solomon. Finally Solomon had put to an end all outstanding issues
left unresolved from the reign of David. Then Solomon made a treaty
with the Egyptians and he took Pharaohs daughter and brought her to
Jerusalem. Then he built his own house and the house of the Lord and
completed the wall around the city. Solomon loved the Lord and kept
the law of the Lord. When Solomon was in Gibeon the Lord asked him in
a dream what he would like to receive from him. He replied, l am
young and l need wisdom, give me an understanding mind to judge the
people and to discern between good and bad. This pleased the LORD so
the LORD said because you didn’t ask for a long life or riches then
l will give you riches too. And if you walk in my ways l will give
you a long life. Solomon returned to Jerusalem and very difficult
cases were brought in front of him and he judged them with
extraordinary wisdom to the amazement of all. Two prostitutes came
with a baby and both claimed the baby was hers Solomon found out who
loved the baby by commanding that the baby be cut in two. The true
mother said no give the baby whole to the other woman in this way
Solomon discovered the true mother’s identity. All Israel heard of
this amazing display of wisdom. </span>
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lying on his death bed how does Adonijah try to grab the throne?</span></div>
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come to the throne?</span></div>
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big test for Solomon and how does he rise to it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
24</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> John
10 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">4 “I am the good shepherd”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">1:
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into
the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief
and a robber. 2: But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd
of the sheep. 3: To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his
voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4:
And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and
the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5: And a stranger will
they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice
of strangers. 6: This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they
understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. 7:
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am
the door of the sheep. 8: All that ever came before me are thieves
and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. 9: I am the door: by me
if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and
find pasture. 10: The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to
kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly. 11: I am the good shepherd: the
good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. 12: But he that is an
hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth
the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf
catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. 13: The hireling fleeth,
because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14: I am the
good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15: As the
Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life
for the sheep. 16: And other sheep I have, which are not of this
fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there
shall be one fold, and one shepherd. 17: Therefore doth my Father
love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. 18:
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment
have I received of my Father. 19: There was a division therefore
again among the Jews for these sayings. 20: And many of them said, He
hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him? 21: Others said, These are
not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of
the blind? </span>
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“I am God’s Son”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">22:
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was
winter. 23: And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch. 24:
Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost
thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25:
Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that
I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me. 26: But ye believe
not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27: My sheep
hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28: And I give
unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand. 29: My Father, which gave them me,
is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand. 30: I and my Father are one. 31: Then the Jews took up
stones again to stone him. 32: Jesus answered them, Many good works
have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye
stone me? 33: The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone
thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man,
makest thyself God. 34: Jesus answered them, Is it not written in
your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35: If he called them gods, unto whom
the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36: Say ye
of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world,
Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37: If I do
not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38: But if I do, though
ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe,
that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39: Therefore they sought
again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40: And went
away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized;
and there he abode. 41: And many resorted unto him, and said, John
did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true.
42: And many believed on him there. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After
Chapter 9 where Christ comes toe to toe with the religious leaders of
Israel Christ teaches his disciples what real religious leadership
is. He gives them The Parable of the Shepherd (v6). All through the
OT Jehovah is described as the shepherd and Israel are the sheep of
his pasture. Here Christ continues with the same image and contrasts
himself as the good shepherd with the hirelings of Israel. First he
says you can always recognise the true shepherd because he enters by
the door into the sheepfold. Those who climb in another way are
thieves and robbers. Thieves steal secretly but robbers attack in the
open causing injury first and then they take everything. Then Christ
says, 'He that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep'.
Christ himself will enter Jerusalem and take the throne of Israel.
Only to him will the porter open and the sheep will hear his voice
and he will call them by name and he will lead them out. Here Christ
prophetically is referring to Christ’s coming in glory in which he
will come to Jerusalem. He will call Israel to follow him and he will
lead them out to evangelise the world. And when he puts them out, he
will go before them. That is, He will be the leader of the people and
they will follow him because they know his voice. This parable also
had a partial fulfilment in the ministry of the Apostles whose
testimony was rejected, however in a future day the Lord will raise
up witnesses again who will hear his voice and be led forth
successfully. The people did not understand what Christ said and that
probably included the disciples. Christ continued to teach them
saying, ‘Verily, verily’. or Listen, listen, l am telling you the
ultimate truth from God. ‘I am the door of the sheep’. This was a
divine claim. He calls himself the ‘I AM’ and he attaches to this
title ownership of Israel. He is saying, ‘I am the God who owns the
people of Israel’. Then he contrasts the old failing, thieving,
corrupt, leadership of Israel with himself. All that mob, that came
before me were rejected because the sheep didn’t hear them. Then he
repeats, ‘I am the door and if you come in to me you will be
saved’. All the hopes and aspirations of Israel is to be found to
be fulfilled in me. I am the Saviour of Israel. Those who trust in me
will be set free – he will go in and out and in me he will find
sustenance. Then he speaks of the thief who is Satan himself the
great enemy of the sheep. Christ says, ‘He has come to steal, kill
and destroy. In contrast - I have come that you might have life. (He
does not say l have come to give you life sovereignty. But l have
come ‘so that you might’ have life. It’s not a automatic thing
it is based on a personal recognition of the Messianic claims of
Jesus) He comes that they might have life and have it more
abundantly, a life that is overflowing. Then Christ goes deeper to
explain why He and he alone is the Shepherd indeed the Good Shepherd
of his people. He says, ‘The Good shepherd gives his life for the
sheep’. You can always tell a good shepherd. He suffers for the
sheep. In contrast the hireling, who is not the owner of the sheep,
when he sees the wolf, runs away and leaves the sheep in danger and
the wolf catches the sheep and kills them. Those that are hirelings
don’t care and flee for their lives. Then Christ states again his
credentials. ‘I am the Good Shepherd, I know them and they know
me’. He says, ‘The Father knows me and l know him and l lay down
my life for the sheep’. This was the very first time he had
intimated the cross. Then Christ speaks of other sheep which are not
of this fold. (See 11v52 Jer 31v33ff The Lord will make a new
covenant with Judah and with Israel. Israel (the ten northern tribes
are at present lost.) Christ will bring them back and there will be
one fold and one shepherd. Zec 10:6-12 Christ will hiss for them like
a shepherd calling sheep from a far field back into the fold. Jer
23:3-8 Eze 36v24 Deu 30v1-10 Isa 43:5-7 Jer 16:14-16 Jer 31:7-10 Eze
11:14-18 Eze 36:24.) The people were divided at Christ’s teaching.
Some said he was mad others that he had a devil, others that these
are not the words of a madman. It was winter and Christ was walking
in Solomon’s porch and the Jews accosted him asking him to say if
he were the Messiah. He answered l have told you but if you don’t
believe my words then believe my Messianic signs. He said you don’t
hear me because you do not believe in me. Then he said something very
wonderful. He said, ‘My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall
never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand’. Can
there be any doubt that those that are in the hand of Christ who have
eternal life are eternally secure? He also said, ‘My Father, which
gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them
out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one’. At this the
Jews gathered and picked up rocks to execute him. Christ challenged
them. For which good work to you seek to kill me? They said, ‘we
are not stoning you for your good works but because of your
blaspheme’. Christ pointed out that even men are referred to as
Gods in the sense that they have the place of God among men in that
they act on his behalf. He escaped from them and went far to the
other side of Jordan where John first baptised. Many believed on him
there.</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did Jesus mean when he said, I am the good Shepherd?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
are hired shepherds like?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
is the good Shepherd like?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
23</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"> 2
Samuel 22 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">David’s song</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that
the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and
out of the hand of Saul: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the
horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou
savest me from violence. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be
saved from mine enemies. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made
me afraid; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented
me; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he
did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his
ears. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved
and shook, because he was wroth. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth
devoured: coals were kindled by it. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his
feet. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the
wings of the wind. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and
thick clouds of the skies. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and
discomfited them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world
were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD, at the blast of the
breath of his nostrils. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters; </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me:
for they were too strong for me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my
stay. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because
he delighted in me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the
cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed
from my God. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did
not depart from them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine
iniquity. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness;
according to my cleanness in his eye sight. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the
upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou
wilt shew thyself unsavoury. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the
haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over
a wall. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is
a buckler to all them that trust in him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high
places. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine
arms. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy
gentleness hath made me great. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again
until I had consumed them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not
arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">40:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up
against me hast thou subdued under me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">41:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might
destroy them that hate me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">42:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he
answered them not. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">43:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp
them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">44:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou
hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not
shall serve me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">45:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they
shall be obedient unto me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">46:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their
close places. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">47:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of
the rock of my salvation. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">48:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under
me, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">49:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted
me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered
me from the violent man. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">50:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen,
and I will sing praises unto thy name. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">51:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his
anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. </span>
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<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2
Samuel 23 David’s last words</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said,
and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of
Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that
ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth,
even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of
the earth by clear shining after rain. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an
everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is
all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away,
because they cannot be taken with hands: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the
staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the
same place. </span>
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<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">David’s
mighty men</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite
that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino
the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew
at one time. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the
three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that
were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were
gone away: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his
hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that
day; and the people returned after him only to spoil. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the
Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of
ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew
the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the
harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines
was then in Bethlehem. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the
water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate! </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines,
and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate,
and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink
thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not
this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty
men. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among
three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew
them, and had the name among three. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain:
howbeit he attained not unto the first three. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of
Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he
went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear
in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the
spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among
three mighty men. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the
first three. And David set him over his guard. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of
Dodo of Bethlehem, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">27:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">28:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">29:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out
of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">30:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">31:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">32:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">33:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">34:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the
son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">35:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">36:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">37:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the
son of Zeruiah, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">38:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">39:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2
Samuel 24 David counts the people</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he
moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with
him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to
Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of
the people. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the
people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of
my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in
this thing? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against
the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went
out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side
of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward
Jazer: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they
came to Dan-jaan, and about to Zidon, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the
Hibites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of
Judah, even to Beer-sheba. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So when they had gone through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at
the end of nine months and twenty days. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king:
and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew
the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">David
punished</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people.
And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have
done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy
servant; for I have done very foolishly. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto
the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three
things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven
years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three
months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be
three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I
shall return to him that sent me. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into
the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall
into the hand of man. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to
the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to
Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy
it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that
destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the
angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the
people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but
these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an
altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the LORD
commanded. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on
toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king
on his face upon the ground. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Araunah said, Wherefore is my lord the king come to his servant?
And David said, To buy the threshingfloor of thee, to build an altar
unto the LORD, that the plague may be stayed from the people. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up
what seemeth good unto him: behold, here be oxen for burnt sacrifice,
and threshing instruments and other instruments of the oxen for wood.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And
Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee
at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God
of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the
threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt
offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the
land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. </span>
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.49cm; margin-top: 0.49cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">In the next three
chapters we have both the highs and lows of David’s spiritual
experience. First we read of David’s wonderful song to the Lord a
worship song in which he tells the Lord how wonderful he is in saving
him from all his enemies. And then we have David’s last words and a
passage describing the mighty men of David. And then we have a sad
passage David commits a great sin by numbering the people - as if
they were his own. And then we read of the judgment of God on David
for his sin. It’s a serious thing when a man of God sins and
especially a man in a position like David because his sin affects
seriously the very lives of so many honurable men. But first let’s
lift up our hearts in joining David in his hymn of praise. It was a
song of praise to the LORD who had delivered him from all his
enemies. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><b>The
Song of David </b></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A.
Praise v2,3</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">B.
Prayer made v4-7</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">C.
The Overthrow of his enemies v8-16</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">B.
Prayer answered v17-28</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">C.
The Overthrow of enemies v29-49 </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A.
Praise v50-51</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A.
Praise</b></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
the horn of my salvation, my high tower, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>B.
Prayer made</b></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>I
will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>so
shall I be saved from mine enemies. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>When
the waves of death compassed me, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
sorrows of hell compassed me about; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>the
snares of death prevented me; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>In
my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
he did hear my voice out of his temple, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
my cry did enter into his ears. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>C.
The overthrow of his enemies</b></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Then
the earth shook and trembled; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>the
foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>There
went up a smoke out of his nostrils, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
bowed the heavens also, and came down; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
darkness was under his feet. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
he was seen upon the wings of the wind. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
he made darkness pavilions round about him, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>dark
waters, and thick clouds of the skies. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Through
the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
LORD thundered from heaven, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
the most High uttered his voice. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
he sent out arrows, and scattered them; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>lightning,
and discomfited them. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were
discovered, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>at
the rebuking of the LORD, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>at
the blast of the breath of his nostrils. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><b>B.
Prayer answered </b></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
sent from above, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>he
took me; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>he
drew me out of many waters; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
delivered me from my strong enemy, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>They
prevented me in the day of my calamity: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>but
the LORD was my stay. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
brought me forth also into a large place: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>he
delivered me, because he delighted in me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>according
to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
I have kept the ways of the LORD, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
have not wickedly departed from my God. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
all his judgments were before me: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
as for his statutes, I did not depart from them. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>I
was also upright before him, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
have kept myself from mine iniquity. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Therefore
the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>according
to my cleanness in his eye sight. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>With
the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>With
the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
the afflicted people thou wilt save: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>but
thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><b>C.
The Overthrow of enemies </b></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
thou art my lamp, O LORD: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
the LORD will lighten my darkness. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
by thee I have run through a troop: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>by
my God have I leaped over a wall. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>As
for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>he
is a buckler to all them that trust in him. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
who is God, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>save
the LORD? </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
who is a rock, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>save
our God? </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>God
is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
maketh my feet like hinds' feet: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
setteth me upon my high places. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
teacheth my hands to war; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>so
that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.</i></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Thou
hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
thy gentleness hath made me great. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Thou
hast enlarged my steps under me; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>so
that my feet did not slip. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>I
have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
turned not again until I had consumed them. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
I have consumed them, and wounded them, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>that
they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>For
thou hast girded me with strength to battle: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>them
that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Thou
hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>that
I might destroy them that hate me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>They
looked, but there was none to save; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>even
unto the LORD, but he answered them not. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Then
did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>I
did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
</i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Thou
also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>thou
hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not
shall serve me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Strangers
shall submit themselves unto me: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>as
soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Strangers
shall fade away, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
they shall be afraid out of their close places. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>The
LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>It
is God that avengeth me, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
that bringeth down the people under me, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>And
that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>thou
also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>thou
hast delivered me from the violent man. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A.
Praise</b></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>Therefore
I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
I will sing praises unto thy name. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>He
is the tower of salvation for his king: </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
sheweth mercy to his anointed, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>unto
David, </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><i>and
to his seed for evermore. </i></span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">This song is taken
later and sightly edited to and placed in the book of Psalms 18.
David begins and ends in praise but in between he speaks of his life
as a prayer and answer to prayer. In this we learn a great lesson our
life is a prayer and all this is ever achieved for God comes from God
in answer to prayer. In his praise David says the LORD (Jehovah) is
my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. He is my shield, the horn of my
salvation, my high tower, my refuge, my saviour. David expresses that
in every circumstance of life the Lord is everything to him. In the
heat of the day he is a shade of shelter. In the midst of battle he
my fortress. In the moment of danger he is my deliverer. In a hale of
arrows he is my shield. In moments of doubt he is the horn of my
salvation. In a siege he is my high tower. In moments of danger from
assassins he is my refuge. In my moments of deepest distress he is my
saviour. You save me for violence. And so David makes this resolve he
will continue to call upon the Lord who is worthy of all praise and
because of this l will be saved from my enemies. Then David speaks
about the innermost troubles of his mind possibly when he went out
alone into the wilderness to scape from Saul. He says when waves of
death (possibly depression) broke over me. When the hordes of the
ungodly frightened me. When death seemed to surround me. And when
snares seemed to be wherever l trod. In my distress l called upon the
LORD and cried to my God and he heard me in his temple and my cries
entered his ears. Then he describes the awakening of God I his wrath
at David’s enemies. He says the earth quaked; even the foundations
of heaven itself shook. And he goes on to describe in the most
dramatic language the coming of God in wrath to save him. He
describes a lightening storm of titanic proportions in which the LORD
scattered his enemies. Even David would have been drowned in the
floods that ensued yet the LORD drew him up and out of the flood
waters. He says the LORD delivered me from my strong enemy because
the enemy was too strong for me. He says simply the LORD was one who
l could lean on. He was my stay. Why did the Lord deliver David? Now
this next section is pure law. David says the LORD rewarded me
according to my righteousness. Because my hands were clean. He says l
have kept the ways of the LORD and not forsaken him. He says l kept
his judgments and his statues. I was upright before him and kept
myself from iniquity and therefore the LORD will reward me according
to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his eyesight.
Because l showed mercy he was merciful to me. With the upright man
the Lord will treat him uprightly. To the pure the LORD will be pure
but with the proud the LORD will wrestle. The Lord will save the
afflicted and the LORD watches the proud to bring them down. David
lived under the Mosaic Law and this is pure law. There is no grace
here. Never perhaps do we have such a clear outline of OT Theology
than we do here. (Except perhaps in the Beatitudes.) The David turns
to praise God for the overthrow of his enemies. First he says the
LORD is my lamp. He is the one who brings light into the darkness.
Through God l have done amazing feats, but as for God his ways are
perfect and he is a servant</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><a class="sdfootnoteanc" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=570416556573487861#sdfootnote1sym" name="sdfootnote1anc"><sup>1</sup></a></span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
to all those that trust themselves to him. Twice David asks two
rhetorical questions. Who is God but the LORD? Who is a rock but our
God? There is so, so much in this Psalm so l must be brief. David
says God is my strength and power. David had learnt the secret of
drawing his actual spiritual and physical strength from the LORD. And
David says he makes me makes me run like a deer. He teaches me how to
fight. You have protected me and made me great. Perhaps we should
refer to David as David the Great. You stop me from loosing my
footing. And l have been able to chase my enemies until they are
completely destroyed. In the battle you filled me with strength and
you weaken my enemies. You enabled me to destroy my enemies who hated
me and nobody came to save them. They even called on you and you
didn’t save them. They were completely trampled into the dust. You
also delivered me from the arguments of my people. Strangers of other
nations will serve me. Then David reverts to praise at the end. The
Lord liveth and it is God that brings vengeance to me. He says in the
presence of the heathen l will sing your praises. Next we have the
last words of David. Last words are always very interesting - let’s
see what David says. David is described as - David the son of Jesse,
the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob,
and the sweet psalmist of Israel. Beautiful obituary. He said The
Lord spoke to me and said he that rules over men must be just, ruling
in the fear of the Lord. David exemplified this all his life. He is
to be like a glorious sunrise on the people. He is to be like a clear
blue sky and like tender grass after rain. My house has not been like
this yet God has made an everlasting covenant with me. This is my
salvation and everything l could ever want although he does not make
it come to pass just now. The wicked are like thorns thrown away and
the man who touches them must be cut off from bring influence on the
people. They will be burned as weeds from a garden. Then we have an
interesting passage which lists and describes David’s mighty men.
First was Tachmonite who was chief over the captains. Adino was like
him he took his spear and killed 800 all by himself. Then there was
Eleazar who was one of the trio David’s mightest men. He fought
against the Philistines until his hand was attached to his sword. He
won a very great victory that day. Then there was Shammah he stood
and defended a pot of lentils all alone against a whole troop of the
Philistines. Three of the 30 mighty men went down to David when he
was in the cave of Adullam. And David said if only l could have a
drink of water from the well in the gate of Bethlehem. These three
mighty men broke through the Philistine army and drew water and
brought it back to David. But David could not drink it the men loved
him so much but they had risked their lives for a drink of water.
David offered it to the Lord. Abishai was the chief of David’s
three mightest men. He went against 300 with just a spear and even
among the three they recognised him as the greatest. Then there was
Benaiah He killed two men who were like lions and he killed a lion in
a pit in the winter and he killed an Egyptian he went and took his
own spear from him and killed him with it. Then the thirty are
listed, Asahel, Elhanan, Shammah, Elika, Helez, Ira, Abiezer,
Mebunnai, Zalmon, Maharai, Heleb, Ittai, Benaiah, Hiddai, Abi-albon,
Azmaveth, Eliahba, Jonathan, Shammah, Ahiam, Eliphelet, Eliam,
Hezrai, Paarai, Igal, Bani, Zelek, Naharai, Ira, Gareb, Uriah the
Hittite there were thirty and seven all together. Perhaps there has
never been a fighting force ever before or since. David then made a
grave mistake - he numbered the people. David told Joab to go and
number the people and Joab questioned the godliness of this act. But
David insisted so Joab went right through Israel at it took him 9
months and 20 days. The number of fighting men was 900,000 of Israel
and 500.000 men of Judah. All men of courage in battle. As soon as
this was completed David knew that it was a mistake. So he came
immediately to the Lord asking for forgiveness. Then the Lord sent a
Prophet to David giving him three choices of punishment. The choices
were – 1. 7 years of famine. 2. 3 months of defeat in front of the
enemy. Or 3. 3 days of pestilence (such as locusts) in the land.
David replied l will cast my self on the Lord because his mercies are
great but do not let us fall into the hands of our enemies. So the
Lord sent a pestilence among the people and 70,000 died. And when the
angel stretched out his hand over Jerusalem to destroy it the LORD
changed his mind and told the angel to stop. The angel of the Lord
was near the threshing floor and David saw the angel and said I have
sinned but what have these people done? Then the Prophet Gad came
again and told David to build an altar in the threshing floor. Then
David went to buy the threshing floor from its owner Arauah. He said
take it and take oxen for a burnt offering but David said no l will
not offer to the LORD that which cost me nothing. Then David paid the
sum and offered to the LORD and the LORD stopped the pestilence. What
a fearful thing it was to fall into the hands of the LORD. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Read the Song of
David through a number of times until it sinks deep into your soul.
Read it out loud and let it be an act of worship. Then write your
thoughts on it.</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are you
thoughts on Davids mighty men and what sort of man led them?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why did David sin
in numbering the people and how did God punish him?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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<div id="sdfootnote1">
<div class="sdfootnote-western" lang="en-US">
<span style="font-size: large;"><a class="sdfootnotesym" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=570416556573487861#sdfootnote1anc" name="sdfootnote1sym">1</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Buckler.
A servant who ‘buckles you up’ or dresses you in places that you
cannot reach youself. </span></span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">April
23</span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">rd</span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The
seeing man questioned</span></span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">13:
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14: And
it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15: Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his
sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed,
and do see. 16: Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not
of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can
a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division
among them. 17: They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou
of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. 18:
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind,
and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had
received his sight. 19: And they asked them, saying, Is this your
son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? 20: His
parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind: 21: But by what means he now seeth, we know
not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him:
he shall speak for himself. 22: These words spake his parents,
because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that
if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of
the synagogue. 23: Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
24: Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him,
Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. 25: He
answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one
thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26: Then said
they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 27:
He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear:
wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? 28:
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are
Moses' disciples. 29: We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this
fellow, we know not from whence he is. 30: The man answered and said
unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from
whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. 31: Now we know that
God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and
doeth his will, him he heareth. 32: Since the world began was it not
heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 33: If
this man were not of God, he could do nothing. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
Lord teaches – Blindness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">34:
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins,
and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 35: Jesus heard that
they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him,
Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36: He answered and said, Who is
he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 37: And Jesus said unto him,
Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38: And
he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. 39: And Jesus said,
For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might
see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40: And some of the
Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him,
Are we blind also? 41: Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye
should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin
remaineth. </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This
is the inquisition of the blind man. The religious leaders, the
Pharisees, ask him how Jesus did the miracle. However they discount
the miracle because of a side issue. It was the Sabbath day when
Christ did this miracle. They assumed that this miracle was ‘work’.
However, other people said how can this man have sinned when he cured
the blind man because God was in him working? They asked the blind
man again. What do you say about this Jesus? His answer was simple
and powerful. He is prophet, he said. Next they doubted that he had
been born blind. They were trying to find a way to discredit the
miracle so that they would not have to accept it. So they called his
parents and they asked first is this your son that was born blind and
how does he now see? They answered they knew that this is definitely
their son and they know that he was born blind by they didn’t know
how he was cured. Why don’t you ask him? They were afraid of the
Jews because it had already been agreed that if anyone confessed
Jesus as the Christ he would be thrown out of the Synagogue. So they
called the man again and said, give praise to God because we know
this man is a sinner. The answer they received is classic. Whether he
is a sinner or not, I do not know but one thing I know, I was blind,
but now I see. They asked him again how did he do it. He said l have
told you already but you did not listen to me. Why do you want to
hear it again? Do you want to become a disciple of Jesus too? They
were incensed. They cursed him and said you are his disciple but we
are disciples of Moses. As for Jesus we don’t know where he has
come from. The answer the man then gave is devastating into its logic
and clarity. Well this is a marvellous thing that you do not know
where he is from, and yet he has opened mine eyes. Now we know that
God does not listen to sinners: but if any man is a true worshipper
of God, and does his will, him he hears. Since the world began was it
has never been heard that any man has opened the eyes of one that was
born blind. If this man Jesus were not from God, he could do nothing.
They were furious with him. They said you were altogether born in sin
and you think you can teach us! And they threw him out. When Jesus
heard that they had thrown him out he found him and said to him do
you believe on the Son of God. He said who is he Lord so that l can
believe on him? Jesus replied you have SEEN him. And he (the Son of
God) is speaking to you now. He replied, Lord, I believe. Bowed down
to the ground before Jesus and worshipped him. Then Jesus said
something very interesting. He said, I am come into this world to
bring judgment. In other words Christ’s presence divides men. So
that those who are blind not might see and they which see might be
made blind. Now this was heard by a few Pharisees and they said, Are
we blind also? Jesus replied to them If you were blind, then you
would not be sinning but now because you say We can see, therefore
your sin remains. Deliberate refusal to recognise Jesus as the
Messiah in the Miracles which he did is a great sin and it makes
those who refuse to see - blind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
<br />
<ul>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">How
did the blind man answer those who questioned him? </span>
</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What
did the parents of this man think?</span></div>
</li>
<li><div align="JUSTIFY" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
blind were the religious leaders?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570416556573487861.post-44979944349044819872015-04-21T21:12:00.002+01:002015-04-21T21:12:30.897+01:00PM April 22nd 2 Samuel 20<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">April
22</span><sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">nd</span></sup><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
2 Samuel 20 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Sheba’s Revolt</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba,
the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We
have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of
Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed Sheba
the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from
Jordan even to Jerusalem. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten
women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put
them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were
shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within
three days, and be thou here present. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer
than the set time which he had appointed him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us
more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue
after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the
Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem,
to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went
before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto
him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the
sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took
Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he
smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the
ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai
his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab,
and he that is for David, let him go after Joab. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the
man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the
highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that
every one that came by him stood still. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after
Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to
Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together,
and went also after him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast
up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the
people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you,
unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab?
And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of
thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then she spake, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying,
They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou
seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou
swallow up the inheritance of the LORD? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I
should swallow up or destroy. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of
Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even
against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And
the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee
over the wall. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut
off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And
he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his
tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">David’s
Officials</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">23:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">24:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud
was recorder: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">25:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">26:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David. </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2
Samuel 21 Gibeonites are avenged</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">1:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after
year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is
for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">2:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the
Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of
the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and
Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and
Judah.) </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">3:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you?
and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD? </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">4:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of
Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in
Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">5:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that
devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any
of the coasts of Israel, </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">6:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them
up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the
king said, I will give them. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">7:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of
Saul, because of the LORD's oath that was between them, between David
and Jonathan the son of Saul. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">8:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom
she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of
Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son
of Barzillai the Meholathite: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">9:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they
hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven
together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first
days, in the beginning of barley harvest. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">10:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her
upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon
them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest
on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">11:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine
of Saul, had done. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">12:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan
his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, which had stolen them from the
street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the
Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">13:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of
Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were
hanged. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">14:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country
of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they
performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was
intreated for the land. </span>
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<div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Philistine
Giants killed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">15:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David
went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the
Philistines: and David waxed faint. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">16:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of
whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he
being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">17:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the
Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him,
saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench
not the light of Israel. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">18:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with
the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph,
which was of the sons of the giant. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">19:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where
Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of
Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's
beam. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">20:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature,
that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four
and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">21:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of
David slew him. </span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">22:</span><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of
David, and by the hand of his servants. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif;">Today we read of
the revolt of Sheba and of how Joab went after him to kill him to
prevent another civil war in Israel. Then we read of how the
Gibeonities are avenged to bring peace back to Israel for a long term
breach of faith. And then we read of a series of small engagements
with the Philistines and of the victories of David’s men over the
giants of Gath – Goliaths family. But first we read of a very
wicked man called Sheba. He blew a trumpet in other words he summoned
an army and stated his policy to be to removal of David as king and
the total destruction of David and his family. The amazing thing was
that all Israel apart from Judah joined in with the conspiracy. The
first thing that David did was to make provision and protection for
the ten women who were his slave/wives. He put them in a safe place.
It was not their fault that men hated their husband so he put them in
a safe place but he did not go to sleep with them and they lived out
their days as token / widows. Then Amasa said to David assemble the
men of Judah in the following three days and come yourself. It took
longer than three days to assemble all Judah to war. So David said to
Abishai Sheba will do us more harm than did Absalom so take your
servants and go after him quickly so that he does not take control of
fenced - stockade cities. Joab his general and all the mighty men
went after him. When they arrived at Gibeon Amasa went ahead of them
and Joab had a secret weapon and when Amasa dropped his sword from
out of his sheath Joab approached Amasa and came near to kiss him
saying are you well? But when he was close he took him by his beard
and plunged a sword into his body killing him in one thrust. Then
Joab and Abishai went after Sheba. When one of Joab’s men saw the
soldiers staring at Amasai dying he moved him off the path and threw
a cloth over him. The men of Joab chased after Sheba a long time
until they came to Adam (which is in the Jordan valley on the far
side of the river. And the men besieged the city and made a ramp
against the wall to break through into the city. But in the city
there was a very wise woman who shouted from the wall to Joab. Saying
Come and speak with me. Joab came near and she said l am a god
fearing woman and she pleaded that he would spare the city. Joab
explained that Sheba had rebelled against David the rightful king.
She said we will execute Sheba. She the men of the city executed
Sheba and threw his head over the wall. Joab blew the trumpet to
signify the end of war and they withdrew from the city. Joab returned
to David. David had a really great administration. Joab was his
general. Benaiah was over the Cherethites and Pelethites. Adoram was
over those who served Israel from other nations. Jehoshaphat was
recorder. He wrote the Chronicle. Sheva was scribe. He wrote the word
of the Lord. Zadok and Abiathar were the Priests. Ira was a chief
ruler. Then something happened that was a strange and serious matter.
A famine descended on Israel. The famine lasted for three years.
David went to the LORD and he received an answer. There was still
bloodshed from the house of Saul that had never been redressed. Saul
had killed some of the Gibeonities who had a peace pact with Israel
from long ago. David called for the Gibeonities and said how can this
iniquity be redressed? The Gibeonities said we don’t want money or
treasure nor his house. They dais take seven of his sons and we will
hang them to the LORD. David said we will do it. David spared
Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul because he had
sworn to the LORD to protect him. But he took 2 sons of Rizpah and 5
sons of Michal the daughter of Saul and he handed them over to the
Gibeonities. And they hanged them in the hill in front of the LORD.
They died all together in the time of barley harvest. (Passover)
Rizpah took sackcloth and spread it on the rock until the rains came
again. She did not allow birds or animals to touch it. David was
informed of what she had done so David went and took the bones of
Saul and Jonathan from Jabesh-Gilead who had taken them from the
Philistines and they gathered the bones of those that were hanged and
they buried them in Zelah. From that time on God heard their cry for
rain. After this the Philistines went to war again with Israel. In
the battle David became faint and Ishbi-benob (Who was a giant, whose
spear weighted about 8lbs) thought that he would kill David with his
new sword but Abishai delivered David and killed the Philistine
giant. Then David’s men said you must not go out to battle anymore
because if you die than a light will go out in Israel. What a
wonderful sentiment. They saw in David the light of God. Then there
came another battle with the Philistines at Gob (in the valley of
Sorek. On the area where the mountains of Judea reach the plains near
Philistia) In this battle Sibbechai killed Saph another giant. Then
there was another battle with the Philistines at the same place Gob.
Here Elhanan killed the brother of Goliath. His staff was thick like
a weavers beam (possibly 3½” or 80mm in diameter). And then there
was another battle. (Each of these battles are getting nearer and
nearer to the Philistine strongholds.) In this place they met another
Giant who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot. He
was a descendant of the Anakim or Nephilim. He was a son of a giant.
These freaks of nature were the cause of the flood in the days of
Noah and they were now being judged by God by the sword of Israel.
When he stood and defied Israel to come and fight as Goliath had done
Jonathan (son of Shimea brother of David. In other words David’s
nephew) killed him. All these four giants were killed by David and
his men. Now we realise why David went against Goliath with five
stones. He was ready to face the whole family. </span>
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<ul>
<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did Sheba revolt against David?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who
were Davids servants in government?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How
did David discover the reason for the Famine?</span></div>
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<li><div class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: DejaVu Sans, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who
killed the rest of the Giants of Gath?</span></div>
</li>
</ul>
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