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         <div class="label">28</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David&#8217;s Plans for the Temple</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">David summoned all the officials of Israel to assemble at Jerusalem: the officers over the tribes, the commanders of the divisions in the service of the king, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and livestock belonging to the king and his sons, together with the palace officials, the warriors and all the brave fighting men.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CH.28.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CH.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">King David rose to his feet and said: &#8220;Listen to me, my fellow Israelites, my people. I had it in my heart to build a house as a place of rest for the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for the footstool of our God, and I made plans to build it. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But God said to me, &#8216;You are not to build a house for my Name, because you are a warrior and have shed blood.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CH.28.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CH.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel, chose me from my whole family to be king over Israel forever. He chose Judah as leader, and from the tribe of Judah he chose my family, and from my father&#8217;s sons he was pleased to make me king over all Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CH.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Of all my sons&#8212;and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me many&#8212;he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> over Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CH.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">He said to me: &#8216;Solomon your son is the one who will build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will establish his kingdom forever if he is unswerving in carrying out my commands and laws, as is being done at this time.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CH.28.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;So now I charge you in the sight of all Israel and of the assembly of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and in the hearing of our God: Be careful to follow all the commands of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God, that you may possess this good land and pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CH.28.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CH.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will reject you forever. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Consider now, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has chosen you to build a house as the sanctuary. Be strong and do the work.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CH.28.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CH.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the portico of the temple, its buildings, its storerooms, its upper parts, its inner rooms and the place of atonement. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1CH.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He gave him the plans of all that the Spirit had put in his mind for the courts of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of the temple of God and for the treasuries for the dedicated things. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1CH.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He gave him instructions for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work of serving in the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, as well as for all the articles to be used in its service. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1CH.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He designated the weight of gold for all the gold articles to be used in various kinds of service, and the weight of silver for all the silver articles to be used in various kinds of service: </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1CH.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">the weight of gold for the gold lampstands and their lamps, with the weight for each lampstand and its lamps; and the weight of silver for each silver lampstand and its lamps, according to the use of each lampstand; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1CH.28.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">the weight of gold for each table for consecrated bread; the weight of silver for the silver tables; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1CH.28.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">the weight of pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls and pitchers; the weight of gold for each gold dish; the weight of silver for each silver dish; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.28.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and overshadow the ark of the covenant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1CH.28.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.28.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;All this,&#8221; David said, &#8220;I have in writing as a result of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1CH.28.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1CH.28.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">David also said to Solomon his son, &#8220;Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is finished. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1CH.28.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The divisions of the priests and Levites are ready for all the work on the temple of God, and every willing person skilled in any craft will help you in all the work. The officials and all the people will obey your every command.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch3" data-usfm="AMO.3">
         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Witnesses Summoned Against Israel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, people of Israel, the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken against you&#8212;against the whole family I brought up out of Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;You only have I chosen</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">of all the families of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">therefore I will punish you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">for all your sins.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.3.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do two walk together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="content">unless they have agreed to do so?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.3.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Does a lion roar in the thicket</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">when it has no prey?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">Does it growl in its den</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">when it has caught nothing?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.3.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Does a bird swoop down to a trap on the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">when no bait is there?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">Does a trap spring up from the ground</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">if it has not caught anything?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When a trumpet sounds in a city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">do not the people tremble?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">When disaster comes to a city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">has not the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> caused it?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Surely the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> does nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">without revealing his plan</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">to his servants the prophets.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The lion has roared&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">who will not fear?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">who can but prophesy?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.3.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Proclaim to the fortresses of Ashdod</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">and to the fortresses of Egypt:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Assemble yourselves on the mountains of Samaria;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">see the great unrest within her</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">and the oppression among her people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;They do not know how to do right,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">&#8220;who store up in their fortresses</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">what they have plundered and looted.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">&#8220;An enemy will overrun your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">pull down your strongholds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">and plunder your fortresses.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.3.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">&#8220;As a shepherd rescues from the lion&#8217;s mouth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">only two leg bones or a piece of an ear,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">so will the Israelites living in Samaria be rescued,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">with only the head of a bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">and a piece of fabric</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from a couch.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Israelites be rescued, / those who sit in Samaria / on the edge of their beds / and in Damascus on their couches.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.3.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Hear this and testify against the descendants of Jacob,&#8221; declares the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.3.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;On the day I punish Israel for her sins,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">I will destroy the altars of Bethel;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">the horns of the altar will be cut off</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">and fall to the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="AMO.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">I will tear down the winter house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">along with the summer house;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">the houses adorned with ivory will be destroyed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">and the mansions will be demolished,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="AMO.3.15"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">4</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Israel Has Not Returned to God</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">and say to your husbands, &#8220;Bring us some drinks!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="AMO.4.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has sworn by his holiness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">&#8220;The time will surely come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">when you will be taken away with hooks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">the last of you with fishhooks.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">away in baskets, / the last of you in fish baskets</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="AMO.4.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">You will each go straight out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">through breaches in the wall,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">and you will be cast out toward Harmon,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) </span><span class="fqa">out, you mountain of oppression</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="AMO.4.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;Go to Bethel and sin;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">go to Gilgal and sin yet more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">Bring your sacrifices every morning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">your tithes every three years.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">days</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="AMO.4.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Burn leavened bread as a thank offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">and brag about your freewill offerings&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">boast about them, you Israelites,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">for this is what you love to do,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">declares the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="AMO.4.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I gave you empty stomachs in every city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">and lack of bread in every town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="AMO.4.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;I also withheld rain from you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">when the harvest was still three months away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">I sent rain on one town,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">but withheld it from another.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">One field had rain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">another had none and dried up.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="AMO.4.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">People staggered from town to town for water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">but did not get enough to drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="AMO.4.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many times I struck your gardens and vineyards,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">destroying them with blight and mildew.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">Locusts devoured your fig and olive trees,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="AMO.4.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;I sent plagues among you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">as I did to Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I killed your young men with the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">along with your captured horses.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="AMO.4.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;I overthrew some of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">You were like a burning stick snatched from the fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">yet you have not returned to me,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="AMO.4.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">and because I will do this to you, Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">prepare to meet your God.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="AMO.4.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He who forms the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who creates the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">who turns dawn to darkness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">and treads on the heights of the earth&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="AMO.4.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God Almighty is his name.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Repent or Perish</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="LUK.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="LUK.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Jesus answered, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="LUK.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="LUK.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them&#8212;do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="LUK.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="LUK.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then he told this parable: </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, &#8216;For three years now I&#8217;ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven&#8217;t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="LUK.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="LUK.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Sir,&#8217; the man replied, &#8216;leave it alone for one more year, and I&#8217;ll dig around it and fertilize it.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals a Crippled Woman on the Sabbath</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="LUK.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="LUK.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="LUK.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="LUK.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="LUK.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, &#8220;There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="LUK.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="LUK.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The Lord answered him, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;You hypocrites! Doesn&#8217;t each of you on the Sabbath untie your ox or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it water?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="LUK.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="LUK.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="LUK.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Then Jesus asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="LUK.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="LUK.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Again he asked, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;What shall I compare the kingdom of God to?</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:21 </span><span class="ft">Or about 27 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">of flour until it worked all through the dough.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Narrow Door</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="LUK.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="LUK.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then Jesus went through the towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Someone asked him, &#8220;Lord, are only a few people going to be saved?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="LUK.13.23"><span class="content">He said to them, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="LUK.13.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, &#8216;Sir, open the door for us.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will answer, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="LUK.13.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Then you will say, &#8216;We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="LUK.13.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;But he will reply, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!&#8217;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="LUK.13.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="LUK.13.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="LUK.13.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus&#8217; Sorrow for Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="LUK.13.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, &#8220;Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="LUK.13.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="LUK.13.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He replied, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Go tell that fox, &#8216;I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day&#8212;for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem!</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="LUK.13.33"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="LUK.13.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="LUK.13.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, &#8216;Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.&#8217;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:35 </span><span class="ft">Psalm 118:26</span></span></span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8221;</span></span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PHM.1.1"><span class="content">To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">also to Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier&#8212;and to the church that meets in your home:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PHM.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Grace and peace to you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:3 </span><span class="ft">The Greek is plural; also in verses 22 and 25; elsewhere in this letter &#8220;you&#8221; is singular.</span></span></span><span class="content"> from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Thanksgiving and Prayer</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PHM.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PHM.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PHM.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PHM.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord&#8217;s people.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Plea for Onesimus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PHM.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PHM.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Therefore, although in Christ I could be bold and order you to do what you ought to do, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PHM.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">yet I prefer to appeal to you on the basis of love. It is as none other than Paul&#8212;an old man and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PHM.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">that I appeal to you for my son Onesimus,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:10 </span><span class="fq">Onesimus </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">useful.</span></span></span><span class="content"> who became my son while I was in chains. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PHM.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PHM.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I am sending him&#8212;who is my very heart&#8212;back to you. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PHM.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I would have liked to keep him with me so that he could take your place in helping me while I am in chains for the gospel. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PHM.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do would not seem forced but would be voluntary. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PHM.1.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Perhaps the reason he was separated from you for a little while was that you might have him back forever&#8212; </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a dear brother. He is very dear to me but even dearer to you, both as a fellow man and as a brother in the Lord.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PHM.1.16"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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