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         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Rescues the City of Jabesh</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Nahash</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:1 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">gifts. Now Nahash king of the Ammonites oppressed the Gadites and Reubenites severely. He gouged out all their right eyes and struck terror and dread in Israel. Not a man remained among the Israelites beyond the Jordan whose right eye was not gouged out by Nahash king of the Ammonites, except that seven thousand men fled from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later, </span><span class="fv">1 </span><span class="fqa">Nahash</span></span></span><span class="content"> the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to him, &#8220;Make a treaty with us, and we will be subject to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But Nahash the Ammonite replied, &#8220;I will make a treaty with you only on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The elders of Jabesh said to him, &#8220;Give us seven days so we can send messengers throughout Israel; if no one comes to rescue us, we will surrender to you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these terms to the people, they all wept aloud. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Just then Saul was returning from the fields, behind his oxen, and he asked, &#8220;What is wrong with everyone? Why are they weeping?&#8221; Then they repeated to him what the men of Jabesh had said.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When Saul heard their words, the Spirit of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers throughout Israel, proclaiming, &#8220;This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not follow Saul and Samuel.&#8221; Then the terror of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> fell on the people, and they came out together as one. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When Saul mustered them at Bezek, the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They told the messengers who had come, &#8220;Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, &#8216;By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They said to the Ammonites, &#8220;Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The next day Saul separated his men into three divisions; during the last watch of the night they broke into the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them until the heat of the day. Those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saul Confirmed as King</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The people then said to Samuel, &#8220;Who was it that asked, &#8216;Shall Saul reign over us?&#8217; Turn these men over to us so that we may put them to death.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But Saul said, &#8220;No one will be put to death today, for this day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has rescued Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Then Samuel said to the people, &#8220;Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">So all the people went to Gilgal and made Saul king in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and Saul and all the Israelites held a great celebration.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JHN.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">At that point some of the people of Jerusalem began to ask, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the man they are trying to kill? </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JHN.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Here he is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying a word to him. Have the authorities really concluded that he is the Messiah? </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">But we know where this man is from; when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he is from.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JHN.7.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JHN.7.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. I am not here on my own authority, but he who sent me is true. You do not know him,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">but I know him because I am from him and he sent me.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JHN.7.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JHN.7.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">At this they tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Still, many in the crowd believed in him. They said, &#8220;When the Messiah comes, will he perform more signs than this man?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JHN.7.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.7.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering such things about him. Then the chief priests and the Pharisees sent temple guards to arrest him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="JHN.7.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="JHN.7.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Jesus said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;I am with you for only a short time, and then I am going to the one who sent me.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.7.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.&#8221;</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="JHN.7.34"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="JHN.7.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">The Jews said to one another, &#8220;Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.7.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">What did he mean when he said, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;You will look for me, but you will not find me,&#8217;</span></span><span class="content"> and </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8216;Where I am, you cannot come&#8217;</span></span><span class="content">?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="JHN.7.36"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="JHN.7.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="JHN.7.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.&#8221;</span></span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">7:37,38 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">me. And let anyone drink </span><span class="fv">38 </span><span class="fqa">who believes in me.&#8221; As Scripture has said, &#8220;Out of him </span><span class="ft">(or </span><span class="fqa">them</span><span class="ft">) </span><span class="fqa">will flow rivers of living water.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.7.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="JHN.7.39"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">114</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 114</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Israel came out of Egypt,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.114.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Judah became God&#8217;s sanctuary,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">Israel his dominion.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.114.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The sea looked and fled,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">the Jordan turned back;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.114.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">the mountains leaped like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">the hills like lambs.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.114.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Why was it, sea, that you fled?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">Why, Jordan, did you turn back?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.114.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">you hills, like lambs?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.114.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">at the presence of the God of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.114.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">who turned the rock into a pool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.114.8"><span class="content">the hard rock into springs of water.</span></span></div>
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