Bible Reading
November 25
The World English Bible
Nov.
25
Jeremiah
50-52
Jer
50:1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the
land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
Jer
50:2 Declare you among the nations and publish, and set up a
standard; publish, and don't conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is
disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her
idols are dismayed.
Jer
50:3 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which
shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are
fled, they are gone, both man and animal.
Jer
50:4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of
Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they
shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.
Jer
50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned
toward it, saying,
Come you, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant
that shall not be forgotten.
Jer
50:6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused
them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they
have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting
place.
Jer
50:7 All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries
said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the
habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
Jer
50:8 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land
of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
Jer
50:9 For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against
Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they
shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be
taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain.
Jer
50:10 Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be
satisfied, says Yahweh.
Jer
50:11 Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder
my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the
grain, and neigh as strong horses;
Jer
50:12 your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you
shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a
wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Jer
50:13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but
she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be
astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Jer
50:14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you
who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned
against Yahweh.
Jer
50:15 Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her
bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the
vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to
her.
Jer
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle
in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall
turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own
land.
Jer
50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away:
first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
Jer
50:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have
punished the king of Assyria.
Jer
50:19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on
Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of
Ephraim and in Gilead.
Jer
50:20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of
Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of
Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I
leave as a remnant.
Jer
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and
against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after
them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.
Jer
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
Jer
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how
is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jer
50:24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon,
and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you
have striven against Yahweh.
Jer
50:25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the
weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a
work to do
in the land of the Chaldeans.
Jer
50:26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses;
cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be
left.
Jer
50:27 Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to
them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Jer
50:28 The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of
Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the
vengeance of his temple.
Jer
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend
the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape:
recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has
done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the
Holy One of Israel.
Jer
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her
men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
Jer
50:31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh
of Armies; for your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
Jer
50:32 The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him
up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all
who are around him.
Jer
50:33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the
children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them
captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.
Jer
50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he
will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the
earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
Jer
50:35 A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the
inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.
Jer
50:36 A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a
sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
Jer
50:37 A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all
the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become
as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
Jer
50:38 A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it
is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.
Jer
50:39 Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall
dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be
no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from
generation to generation.
Jer
50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor
cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall
any son of man sojourn therein.
Jer
50:41 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and
many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jer
50:42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses,
everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter
of Babylon.
Jer
50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands
wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, and
pangs as of a woman in travail.
Jer
50:44 Behold, the enemy
shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the
strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it;
and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like
me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can
stand before me?
Jer
50:45 Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken
against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the
land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even
the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them.
Jer
50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and
the cry is heard among the nations.
Jer
51:1 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and
against those who dwell in Lebkamai, a destroying wind.
Jer
51:2 I will send to Babylon strangers, who shall winnow her; and
they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be
against her around.
Jer
51:3 Against him who
bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him
who lifts himself up in his coat of
mail: and don't you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her
army.
Jer
51:4 They shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and
thrust through in her streets.
Jer
51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of
Armies; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of
Israel.
Jer
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life;
don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's
vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
Jer
51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, who made all
the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the
nations are mad.
Jer
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take
balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
Jer
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake
her, and let us go everyone into his own country; for her judgment
reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.
Jer
51:10 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us
declare in Zion the work of Yahweh our God.
Jer
51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has
stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose
is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Yahweh,
the vengeance of his temple.
Jer
51:12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both
purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of
Babylon.
Jer
51:13 You who dwell on many waters, abundant in treasures, your end
is come, the measure of your covetousness.
Jer
51:14 Yahweh of Armies has sworn by himself, saying,
Surely I will fill you with men, as with the canker worm; and they
shall lift up a shout against you.
Jer
51:15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the
world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out
the heavens:
Jer
51:16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the
heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the
earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out
of his treasuries.
Jer
51:17 Every man is become brutish and
is without knowledge; every goldsmith is
disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and
there is no breath in them.
Jer
51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their
visitation they shall perish.
Jer
51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former
of all things; and Israel
is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of Armies is his name.
Jer
51:20 You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I
break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
Jer
51:21 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
Jer
51:22 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him who
rides therein; and with you will I break in pieces man and woman; and
with you will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with
you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
Jer
51:23 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his
flock; and with you will I break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of
oxen; and with you will I break in
pieces governors and deputies.
Jer
51:24 I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea
all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, says
Yahweh.
Jer
51:25 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh,
which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you,
and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
Jer
51:26 They shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone
for foundations; but you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:27 Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the
nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her
the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal
against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
Jer
51:28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, its
governors, and all its deputies, and all the land of their dominion.
Jer
51:29 The land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh
against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Jer
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain
in their strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as
women: her dwelling places are set on fire; her bars are broken.
Jer
51:31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every
quarter:
Jer
51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned
with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
Jer
51:33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is
trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for
her.
Jer
51:34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has
crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster,
swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has
cast me out.
Jer
51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall
the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of
Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
Jer
51:36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her
fountain dry.
Jer
51:37 Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an
astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
Jer
51:38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as
lions' cubs.
Jer
51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make
them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and
not wake, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams
with male goats.
Jer
51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth
seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
Jer
51:42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the
multitude of its waves.
Jer
51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert,
a land in which no man dwells, neither does any son of man pass
thereby.
Jer
51:44 I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring
forth out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the
nations shall not flow any more to him: yes, the wall of Babylon
shall fall.
Jer
51:45 My people, go you out of the midst of her, and save yourselves
every man from the fierce anger of Yahweh.
Jer
51:46 Don't let your heart faint, neither fear for the news that
shall be heard in the land; for news shall come one year, and after
that in another year shall come
news, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
Jer
51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment
on the engraved images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be
confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
Jer
51:48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall
sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from
the north, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at
Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.
Jer
51:50 You who have escaped the sword, go you, don't stand still;
remember Yahweh from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Jer
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion
has covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of
Yahweh's house.
Jer
51:52 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will
execute judgment on her engraved images; and through all her land the
wounded shall groan.
Jer
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall
destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.
Jer
51:54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from
the land of the Chaldeans!
Jer
51:55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the
great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of
their voice is uttered:
Jer
51:56 for the destroyer is come on her, even on Babylon, and her
mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is
a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.
Jer
51:57 I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors
and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a
perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh
of Armies.
Jer
51:58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The broad walls of Babylon shall
be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire;
and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire;
and they shall be weary.
Jer
51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son
of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king
of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was
chief quartermaster.
Jer
51:60 Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come on
Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.
Jer
51:61 Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see
that you read all these words,
Jer
51:62 and say, Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut
it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor animal, but
that it shall be desolate forever.
Jer
51:63 It shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book,
that you shall bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the
Euphrates:
Jer
51:64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise
again because of the evil that I will bring on her; and they shall be
weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
Jer
52:1 Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Jer
52:2 He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to
all that Jehoiakim had done.
Jer
52:3 For through the anger of Yahweh did it happen in Jerusalem and
Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. Zedekiah
rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Jer
52:4 It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against
it; and they built forts against it round about.
Jer
52:5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
Jer
52:6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine
was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of
the land.
Jer
52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war
fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate
between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the
Chaldeans were against the city all around;) and they went toward
the Arabah.
Jer
52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and
overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was
scattered from him.
Jer
52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of
Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
Jer
52:10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes: he killed also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
Jer
52:11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound
him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison
until the day of his death.
Jer
52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which
was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of
Babylon, into Jerusalem:
Jer
52:13 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and
all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with
fire.
Jer
52:14 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of
the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.
Jer
52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were
left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of
Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
Jer
52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest
of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
Jer
52:17 The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the
bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the
Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to
Babylon.
Jer
52:18 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the
basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they
ministered, took they away.
Jer
52:19 The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and
the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls--that which was of
gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,--the captain
of the guard took away.
Jer
52:20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that
were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for the house of
Yahweh. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.
Jer
52:21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen
cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and its thickness
was four fingers: it was hollow.
Jer
52:22 A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one
capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital
all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these,
and pomegranates.
Jer
52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the
pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
Jer
52:24 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and
Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
Jer
52:25 and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the
men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were
found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who
mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the
land, who were found in the midst of the city.
Jer
52:26 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought
them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jer
52:27 The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at
Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out
of his land.
Jer
52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand twenty-three Jews;
Jer
52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty-two persons;
Jer
52:30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuzaradan
the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven
hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and
six hundred.
Jer
52:31 It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity
of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and
twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the
first year
of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and
brought him forth out of prison;
Jer
52:32 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the
throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
Jer
52:33 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin
ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:
Jer
52:34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given
him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his
death, all the days of his life.
Nov.
25
Hebrews
11
Heb
11:1 Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not
seen.
Heb
11:2 For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
Heb
11:3 By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by
the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things
which are visible.
Heb
11:4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was
righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it
he, being dead, still speaks.
Heb
11:5 By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn't see death,
and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had
testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well
pleasing to God.
Heb
11:6 Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for
he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a
rewarder of those who seek him.
Heb
11:7 By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved
with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through
which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness
which is according to faith.
Heb
11:8 By faith, Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to the
place which he was to receive for an inheritance. He went out, not
knowing where he went.
Heb
11:9 By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a
land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs
with him of the same promise.
Heb
11:10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose
builder and maker is God.
Heb
11:11 By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and
she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him
faithful who had promised.
Heb
11:12 Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as
innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by
one man, and him as good as dead.
Heb
11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but
having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Heb
11:14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are
seeking a country of their own.
Heb
11:15 If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which
they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Heb
11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he
has prepared a city for them.
Heb
11:17 By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who
had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only
son;
Heb
11:18 even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be
called;"
Heb
11:19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead.
Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.
Heb
11:20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things
to come.
Heb
11:21 By faith, Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons
of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
Heb
11:22 By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the
departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning
his bones.
Heb
11:23 By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months
by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and
they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Heb
11:24 By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
Heb
11:25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
Heb
11:26 accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the
treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Heb
11:27 By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king;
for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Heb
11:28 By faith, he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the
blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
Heb
11:29 By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When
the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.
Heb
11:30 By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been
encircled for seven days.
Heb
11:31 By faith, Rahab the prostitute, didn't perish with those who
were disobedient, having received the spies in peace.
Heb
11:32 What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of
Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets;
Heb
11:33 who, through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Heb
11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
rom weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign
armies to flee.
Heb
11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were
tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a
better resurrection.
Heb
11:36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by
bonds and imprisonment.
Heb
11:37 They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted.
They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and
in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Heb
11:38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts,
mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.
Heb
11:39 These all, having had testimony given to them through their
faith, didn't receive the promise,
Heb
11:40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, so that
apart from us they should not be made perfect.
