July
27
2
Chronicles 13-15
2Ch
13:1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign
over Judah.
2Ch
13:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. There was war between Abijah
and Jeroboam.
2Ch
13:3 Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even
four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in
array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were
mighty men of valor.
2Ch
13:4 Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country
of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
2Ch
13:5 Ought you not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the
kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by
a covenant of salt?
2Ch
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son
of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.
2Ch
13:7 There were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, who
strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when
Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.
2Ch
13:8 Now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of
the sons of David; and you are a great multitude, and there are with
you the golden calves which Jeroboam made you for gods.
2Ch
13:9 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of
Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the
manner of the peoples of other
lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull
and seven rams, the same may be a priest of those
who are no gods.
2Ch
13:10 But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken
him; and we have
priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in
their work:
2Ch
13:11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt
offerings and sweet incense: the show bread also set
they in order on the pure table; and the
lampstand of gold with its lamps, to burn every evening: for we keep
the instruction of Yahweh our God; but you have forsaken him.
2Ch
13:12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the
trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel,
don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you
shall not prosper.
2Ch
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so
they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.
2Ch
13:14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and
behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with
the trumpets.
2Ch
13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah
shouted, it happened, that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before
Abijah and Judah.
2Ch
13:16 The children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered
them into their hand.
2Ch
13:17 Abijah and his people killed them with a great slaughter: so
there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
2Ch
13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time,
and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on Yahweh,
the God of their fathers.
2Ch
13:19 Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with its towns, and Jeshanah with its towns, and Ephron with
its towns.
2Ch
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of
Abijah: and Yahweh struck him, and he died.
2Ch
13:21 But Abijah grew mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives,
and became the father of twenty-two sons, and sixteen daughters.
2Ch
13:22 The rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings,
are written in the commentary of the prophet Iddo.
2Ch
14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the
city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the
land was quiet ten years.
2Ch
14:2 Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his
God:
2Ch
14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and
broke down the pillars, and cut down the Asherim,
2Ch
14:4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers,
and to do the law and the commandment.
2Ch
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
places and the sun images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2Ch
14:6 He built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and
he had no war in those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
2Ch
14:7 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about
them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us,
because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has
given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
2Ch
14:8 Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah
three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bore shields and
drew bows, two hundred eighty thousand: all these were mighty men of
valor.
2Ch
14:9 There came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of
a million troops, and three hundred chariots; and he came to
Mareshah.
2Ch
14:10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in
array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
2Ch
14:11 Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none
besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength:
help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we
come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God; don't let man
prevail against you.
2Ch
14:12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah;
and the Ethiopians fled.
2Ch
14:13 Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar:
and there fell of the Ethiopians so many that they could not recover
themselves; for they were destroyed before Yahweh, and before his
army; and they carried away very much booty.
2Ch
14:14 They struck all the cities around Gerar; for the fear of
Yahweh came on them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was
much spoil in them.
2Ch
14:15 They struck also the tents of livestock, and carried away
sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
2Ch
15:1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
2Ch
15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and
all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him;
and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him,
he will forsake you.
2Ch
15:3 Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and
without a teaching priest, and without law:
2Ch
15:4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of
Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
2Ch
15:5 In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to
him who came in; but great troubles were on all the inhabitants of
the lands.
2Ch
15:6 They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city
against city; for God troubled them with all adversity.
2Ch
15:7 But you be strong, and don't let your hands be slack; for your
work shall be rewarded.
2Ch
15:8 When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the
prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all
the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had
taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of
Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
2Ch
15:9 He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who sojourned
with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they
fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his
God was with him.
2Ch
15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third
month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
2Ch
15:11 They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they
had brought, seven hundred head of cattle and seven thousand sheep.
2Ch
15:12 They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of
their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;
2Ch
15:13 and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel,
should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2Ch
15:14 They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and
with trumpets, and with cornets.
2Ch
15:15 All Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all
their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found
of them: and Yahweh gave them rest all around.
2Ch
15:16 Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being
queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and
Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the
brook Kidron.
2Ch
15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel:
nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.
2Ch
15:18 He brought into the house of God the things that his father
had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold,
and vessels.
2Ch
15:19 There was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the
reign of Asa.
July
28
2
chronicles 16-18
2Ch
16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king
of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not
allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
2Ch
16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of
the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad
king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
2Ch
16:3 There is
a league between me and you, as there
was between my father and your father:
behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with
Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
2Ch
16:4 Ben Hadad listened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his
armies against the cities of Israel; and they struck Ijon, and Dan,
and Abel Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali.
2Ch
16:5 It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building
Ramah, and let his work cease.
2Ch
16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
stones of Ramah, and its timber, with which Baasha had built; and he
built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
2Ch
16:7 At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and
said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have
not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the army of the king of
Syria escaped out of your hand.
2Ch
16:8 Weren't the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with chariots
and horsemen exceeding many? yet, because you relyed on Yahweh, he
delivered them into your hand.
2Ch
16:9 For the eyes of Yahweh run back and forth throughout the whole
earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is
perfect toward him. Herein you have done foolishly; for from
henceforth you shall have wars.
2Ch
16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison;
for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed
some of the people at the same time.
2Ch
16:11 Behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
2Ch
16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his
feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he didn't
seek Yahweh, but to the physicians.
2Ch
16:13 Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth
year of his reign.
2Ch
16:14 They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for
himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was
filled with sweet odors and various kinds of
spices prepared by the perfumers' art:
and they made a very great burning for him.
2Ch
17:1 Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened
himself against Israel.
2Ch
17:2 He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set
garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which
Asa his father had taken.
2Ch
17:3 Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first
ways of his father David, and didn't seek the Baals,
2Ch
17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his
commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
2Ch
17:5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; and all
Judah brought to Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in
abundance.
2Ch
17:6 His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore
he took away the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
2Ch
17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even
Ben Hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to
teach in the cities of Judah;
2Ch
17:8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and
Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah,
and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and
Jehoram, the priests.
2Ch
17:9 They taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with
them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and
taught among the people.
2Ch
17:10 The fear of Yahweh fell on all the kingdoms of the lands that
were around Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
2Ch
17:11 Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and
silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven
thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred
male goats.
2Ch
17:12 Jehoshaphat grew great exceedingly; and he built in Judah
castles and cities of store.
2Ch
17:13 He had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war,
mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.
2Ch
17:14 This was the numbering of them according to their fathers'
houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and
with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;
2Ch
17:15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two
hundred eighty thousand;
2Ch
17:16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly
offered himself to Yahweh; and with him two hundred thousand mighty
men of valor.
2Ch
17:17 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two
hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;
2Ch
17:18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him one hundred eighty
thousand ready prepared for war.
2Ch
17:19 These were those who waited on the king, besides those whom
the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.
2Ch
18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he
joined affinity with Ahab.
2Ch
18:2 After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab
killed sheep and cattle for him in abundance, and for the people who
were with him, and moved him to go up with
him to Ramoth Gilead.
2Ch
18:3 Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you
go with me to Ramoth Gilead? He answered him, I am as you are, and my
people as your people; and we will be
with you in the war.
2Ch
18:4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first
for the word of Yahweh.
2Ch
18:5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four
hundred men, and said to them, Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to
battle, or shall I forbear? They said, Go up; for God will deliver it
into the hand of the king.
2Ch
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh
besides, that we may inquire of him?
2Ch
18:7 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by
whom we may inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never
prophesies good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah
the son of Imla. Jehoshaphat said, Don't let the king say so.
2Ch
18:8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Get
quickly Micaiah the son of Imla.
2Ch
18:9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat
each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in
an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the
prophets were prophesying before them.
2Ch
18:10 Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and
said, Thus says Yahweh, With these you shall push the Syrians, until
they be consumed.
2Ch
18:11 All the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth
Gilead, and prosper; for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the
king.
2Ch
18:12 The messenger who went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying,
Behold, the words of the prophets declare
good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, Please be
like one of theirs, and speak good.
2Ch
18:13 Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I
speak.
2Ch
18:14 When he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah,
shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? He said,
Go up, and prosper; and they shall be delivered into your hand.
2Ch
18:15 The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that
you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
2Ch
18:16 He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep
that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let
them return every man to his house in peace.
2Ch
18:17 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Didn't I tell you that
he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
2Ch
18:18 Micaiah
said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting
on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing on his right hand
and on his left.
2Ch
18:19 Yahweh said, 'Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he
may go up and fall at Ramoth Gilead?' One spoke saying after this
manner, and another saying after that manner.
2Ch
18:20 There came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said,
'I will entice him.' Yahweh said to him, 'How?'
2Ch
18:21 He said, 'I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the
mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You shall entice him, and shall
prevail also: go forth, and do so.'
2Ch
18:22 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the
mouth of these your prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning
you."
2Ch
18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck
Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh
from me to speak to you?
2Ch
18:24 Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you
shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
2Ch
18:25 The king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to
Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
2Ch
18:26 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison,
and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction,
until I return in peace.
2Ch
18:27 Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not
spoken by me. He said, Hear, you peoples, all of you.
2Ch
18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went
up to Ramoth Gilead.
2Ch
18:29 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise
myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes. So the
king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
2Ch
18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his
chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with
the king of Israel.
2Ch
18:31 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they
turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and
Yahweh helped him; and God moved them to
depart from him.
2Ch
18:32 It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was
not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
2Ch
18:33 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king
of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the
driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army;
for I am sore wounded.
2Ch
18:34 The battle increased that day: however the king of Israel
stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even;
and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.
Jul. 27
Acts 16
Act
16:1 He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was
there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his
father was a Greek.
Act
16:2 The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good
testimony about him.
Act
16:3 Paul wanted to have him go out with him, and he took and
circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts; for they
all knew that his father was a Greek.
Act
16:4 As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered
the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles
and elders who were at Jerusalem.
Act
16:5 So the assemblies were strengthened in the faith, and increased
in number daily.
Act
16:6 When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia,
they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
Act
16:7 When they had come opposite Mysia, they tried to go into
Bithynia, but the Spirit didn't allow them.
Act
16:8 Passing by Mysia, they came down to Troas.
Act
16:9 A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of
Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, "Come over into
Macedonia and help us."
Act
16:10 When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out
to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the
Good News to them.
Act
16:11 Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course
to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;
Act
16:12 and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the
foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days
in this city.
Act
16:13 On the Sabbath day we went forth outside of the city by a
riverside, where we supposed there was a place of prayer, and we sat
down, and spoke to the women who had come together.
Act
16:14 A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city
of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord
opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
Act
16:15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us,
saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come
into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
Act
16:16 It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl
having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much
gain by fortune telling.
Act
16:17 Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are
servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of
salvation!"
Act
16:18 She was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly
annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the
name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" It came out that very
hour.
Act
16:19 But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone,
they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace
before the rulers.
Act
16:20 When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said,
"These men, being Jews, are agitating our city,
Act
16:21 and set forth customs which it is not lawful for us to accept
or to observe, being Romans."
Act
16:22 The multitude rose up together against them, and the
magistrates tore their clothes off of them, and commanded them to be
beaten with rods.
Act
16:23 When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into
prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,
Act
16:24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner
prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Act
16:25 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing
hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
Act
16:26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations
of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened,
and everyone's bonds were loosened.
Act
16:27 The jailer, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison
doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing
that the prisoners had escaped.
Act
16:28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, "Don't harm
yourself, for we are all here!"
Act
16:29 He called for lights and sprang in, and, fell down trembling
before Paul and Silas,
Act
16:30 and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to
be saved?"
Act
16:31 They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you
will be saved, you and your household."
Act
16:32 They spoke the word of the Lord to him, and to all who were in
his house.
Act
16:33 He took them the same hour of the night, and washed their
stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
Act
16:34 He brought them up into his house, and set food before them,
and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
Act
16:35 But when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants,
saying, "Let those men go."
Act
16:36 The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The
magistrates have sent to let you go; now therefore come out, and go
in peace."
Act
16:37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly,
without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do
they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come
themselves and bring us out!"
Act
16:38 The sergeants reported these words to the magistrates, and
they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,
Act
16:39 and they came and begged them. When they had brought them out,
they asked them to depart from the city.
Act
16:40 They went out of the prison, and entered into Lydia's house.
When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, and departed.
Jul.
28
Acts 17
Act
17:1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they
came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Act
17:2 Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath
days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Act
17:3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and
rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I
proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Act
17:4 Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the
devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women.
Act
17:5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the
marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar.
Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the
people.
Act
17:6 When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain
brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have
turned the world upside down have come here also,
Act
17:7 whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees
of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!"
Act
17:8 The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when
they heard these things.
Act
17:9 When they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let
them go.
Act
17:10 The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to
Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue.
Act
17:11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that
they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the
Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Act
17:12 Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek
women, and not a few men.
Act
17:13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word
of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there
likewise, agitating the multitudes.
Act
17:14 Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to
the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.
Act
17:15 But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens.
Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to
him very quickly, they departed.
Act
17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was
provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
Act
17:17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout
persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
Act
17:18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were
conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to
say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign
deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Act
17:19 They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus,
saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken
by you?
Act
17:20 For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to
know therefore what these things mean."
Act
17:21 Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent
their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new
thing.
Act
17:22 Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, "You
men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.
Act
17:23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your
worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN
GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to
you.
Act
17:24 The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being
Lord of heaven and earth, doesn't dwell in temples made with hands,
Act
17:25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed
anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all
things.
Act
17:26 He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the
surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the
boundaries of their dwellings,
Act
17:27 that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach
out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Act
17:28 'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of
your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
Act
17:29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that
the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art
and design of man.
Act
17:30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he
commands that all people everywhere should repent,
Act
17:31 because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the
world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he
has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the
dead."
Act
17:32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
mocked; but others said, "We want to hear you again concerning
this."
Act
17:33 Thus Paul went out from among them.
Act
17:34 But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also
was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others
with them.
