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  1 Chronicles 19-21


19:1 In the course of time, Nahash king of the Ammonites died, and his son succeeded him as king.
19:2 David thought, "I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David's men came to Hanun in the land of the Ammonites to express sympathy to him,
19:3 the Ammonite nobles said to Hanun, "Do you think David is honoring your father by sending men to you to express sympathy? Haven"t his men come to you to explore and spy out the country and overthrow it?"
19:4 So Hanun seized David's men, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at the buttocks, and sent them away.
19:5 When someone came and told David about the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, "Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back."
19:6 When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench in David's nostrils, Hanun and the Ammonites sent a thousand talents of silver to hire chariots and charioteers from Aram Naharaim, Aram Maacah and Zobah.
19:7 They hired thirty-two thousand chariots and charioteers, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba, while the Ammonites were mustered from their towns and moved out for battle.
19:8 On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men.
19:9 The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance to their city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.
19:10 Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans.
19:11 He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother, and they were deployed against the Ammonites.
19:12 Joab said, "If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to rescue me; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will rescue you.
19:13 Be strong and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The LORD will do what is good in his sight."
19:14 Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him.
19:15 When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans were fleeing, they too fled before his brother Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.
19:16 After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they sent messengers and had Arameans brought from beyond the River, with Shophach the commander of Hadadezer's army leading them.
19:17 When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan; he advanced against them and formed his battle lines opposite them. David formed his lines to meet the Arameans in battle, and they fought against him.
19:18 But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven thousand of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers. He also killed Shophach the commander of their army.
19:19 When the vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to him. So the Arameans were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore.
20:1 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.
20:2 David took the crown from the head of their king--its weight was found to be a talent of gold, and it was set with precious stones-- and it was placed on David's head. He took a great quantity of plunder from the city
20:3 and brought out the people who were there, consigning them to labor with saws and with iron picks and axes. David did this to all the Ammonite towns. Then David and his entire army returned to Jerusalem.
20:4 In the course of time, war broke out with the Philistines, at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaites, and the Philistines were subjugated.
20:5 In another battle with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
20:6 In still another battle, which took place at Gath, there was a huge man with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot-- twenty-four in all. He also was descended from Rapha.
20:7 When he taunted Israel, Jonathan son of Shimea, David's brother, killed him.
20:8 These were descendants of Rapha in Gath, and they fell at the hands of David and his men.
21:1 Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
21:2 So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, "Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are."
21:3 But Joab replied, "May the LORD multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?"
21:4 The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.
21:5 Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David
21:6 But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him.
21:7 This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.
21:8 Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."
21:9 The LORD said to Gad, David's seer,
21:10 "Go and tell David, "This is what the LORD says
21:11 So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the LORD says
21:12 three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the LORD-- days of plague in the land, with the angel of the LORD ravaging every part of Israel." Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."
21:13 David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the LORD, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men."
21:14 So the LORD sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.
21:15 And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the LORD was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
21:16 David looked up and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
21:17 David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? O LORD my God, let your hand fall upon me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."
21:18 Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
21:19 So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
21:20 While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves.
21:21 Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.
21:22 David said to him, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price."
21:23 Araunah said to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this."
21:24 But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the LORD what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing."
21:25 So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site.
21:26 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the LORD, and the LORD answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
21:27 Then the LORD spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
21:28 At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.
21:29 The tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.
21:30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.

  John  8


8:1 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
8:2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them.
8:3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group
8:4 and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.
8:5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?"
8:6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger.
8:7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
8:8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
8:9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
8:10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
8:11 "No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
8:13 The Pharisees challenged him, "Here you are, appearing as your own witness; your testimony is not valid."
8:14 Jesus answered, "Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you have no idea where I come from or where I am going.
8:15 You judge by human standards; I pass judgment on no one.
8:16 But if I do judge, my decisions are right, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.
8:17 In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two men is valid.
8:18 I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me."
8:19 Then they asked him, "Where is your father?" "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus replied. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
8:20 He spoke these words while teaching in the temple area near the place where the offerings were put. Yet no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.
8:21 Once more Jesus said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come."
8:22 This made the Jews ask, "Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, "Where I go, you cannot come"?"
8:23 But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
8:24 I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the one I claim to be], you will indeed die in your sins."
8:25 "Who are you?" they asked. "Just what I have been claiming all along," Jesus replied.
8:26 "I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is reliable, and what I have heard from him I tell the world."
8:27 They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.
8:28 So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am [the one I claim to be] and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.
8:29 The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him."
8:30 Even as he spoke, many put their faith in him.
8:31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
8:33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
8:34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
8:35 Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever.
8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
8:37 I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word.
8:38 I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father."
8:39 "Abraham is our father," they answered. "If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do the things Abraham did.
8:40 As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things.
8:41 You are doing the things your own father does." "We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
8:42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me.
8:43 Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
8:44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
8:45 Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!
8:46 Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don"t you believe me?
8:47 He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."
8:48 The Jews answered him, "Aren"t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?"
8:49 "I am not possessed by a demon," said Jesus, "but I honor my Father and you dishonor me.
8:50 I am not seeking glory for myself; but there is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.
8:51 I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death."
8:52 At this the Jews exclaimed, "Now we know that you are demon-possessed! Abraham died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he will never taste death.
8:53 Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"
8:54 Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. My Father, whom you claim as your God, is the one who glorifies me.
8:55 Though you do not know him, I know him. If I said I did not, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.
8:56 Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad."
8:57 "You are not yet fifty years old," the Jews said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"
8:58 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!"
8:59 At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.