Bible Reading for November 20 - 22
World English Bible
Nov.
20
Jeremiah
30-33
Jer
30:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all
the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
Jer
30:3 For, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again
the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will
cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and
they shall possess it.
Jer
30:4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and
concerning Judah.
Jer
30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of
fear, and not of peace.
Jer
30:6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do
I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jer
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is
even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
Jer
30:8 It shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that
I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds;
and strangers shall no more make him their bondservant;
Jer
30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king,
whom I will raise up to them.
Jer
30:10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says
Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you
from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob
shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him
afraid.
Jer
30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a
full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will
not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and
will in no way leave you unpunished.
Jer
30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound
grievous.
Jer
30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up:
you have no healing medicines.
Jer
30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I
have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of
a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins
were increased.
Jer
30:15 Why cry you for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the
greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have
done these things to you.
Jer
30:16 Therefore all those who devour you shall be devoured; and all
your adversaries, everyone of them, shall go into captivity; and
those who despoil you shall be a spoil, and all who prey on you will
I give for a prey.
Jer
30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your
wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, saying,
It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
Jer
30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of
Jacob's tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places; and the
city shall be built on its own hill, and the palace shall be
inhabited after its own manner.
Jer
30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those
who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few;
I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
Jer
30:20 Their children also shall be as before, and their congregation
shall be established before me; and I will punish all who oppress
them.
Jer
30:21 Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall
proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,
and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to
approach to me? says Yahweh.
Jer
30:22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Jer
30:23 Behold, the storm of Yahweh, even
his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping
storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.
Jer
30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has
executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in
the latter days you shall understand it.
Jer
31:1 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the
families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jer
31:2 Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found
favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to
rest.
Jer
31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying,
Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving
kindness have I drawn you.
Jer
31:4 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of
Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall
go forth in the dances of those who make merry.
Jer
31:5 Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy its
fruit.
Jer
31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen on the hills of
Ephraim shall cry, Arise you, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our
God.
Jer
31:7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout
for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say,
Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
Jer
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who
travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
Jer
31:9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead
them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight
way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jer
31:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you nations, and declare it in the
islands afar off; and say, He who scattered Israel will gather him,
and keep him, as shepherd does his flock.
Jer
31:11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand
of him who was stronger than he.
Jer
31:12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow
to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to
the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their
soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more
at all.
Jer
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men
and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and
will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Jer
31:14 I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my
people shall be satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and
bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be
comforted for her children, because they are no more.
Jer
31:16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your
eyes from tears; for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and
they shall come again from the land of the enemy.
Jer
31:17 There is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your
children shall come again to their own border.
Jer
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus,
You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to
the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be
turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
Jer
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I
was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even
confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Jer
31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as
I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my
heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:21 Set up road signs, make guideposts; set your heart toward the
highway, even the way by which you went: turn again, virgin of
Israel, turn again to these your cities.
Jer
31:22 How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter?
for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall
encompass a man.
Jer
31:23 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Yet again shall
they use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I
shall bring again their captivity: Yahweh bless you, habitation of
righteousness, mountain of holiness.
Jer
31:24 Judah and all its cities shall dwell therein together, the
farmers, and those who go about with flocks.
Jer
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul
have I replenished.
Jer
31:26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
Jer
31:27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house
of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the
seed of animal.
Jer
31:28 It shall happen that, like as I have watched over them to
pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to
afflict, so will I watch over them to build and to plant, says
Yahweh.
Jer
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten
sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
Jer
31:30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity: every man who
eats the sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.
Jer
31:31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new
covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer
31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land
of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to
them, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of
Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their
inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people:
Jer
31:34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every
man his brother, saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Yahweh: for I
will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
Jer
31:35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and
the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who
stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of Armies is his
name:
Jer
31:36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then
the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me
forever.
Jer
31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the
foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast
off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, says Yahweh.
Jer
31:38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be
built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
Jer
31:39 The measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the
hill Gareb, and shall turn about to Goah.
Jer
31:40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all
the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate
toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up,
nor thrown down any more forever.
Jer
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadnezzar.
Jer
32:2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging
Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the
guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Jer
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you
prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city
into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Jer
32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the
king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his
eyes shall see his eyes;
Jer
32:5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be
until I visit him, says Yahweh: though you fight with the Chaldeans,
you shall not prosper?
Jer
32:6 Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
Jer
32:7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to
you, saying, Buy you my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of
redemption is yours to buy it.
Jer
32:8 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard
according to the word of Yahweh, and said to me, Please buy my field
that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right
of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours; buy it for
yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
Jer
32:9 I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
Jer
32:10 I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses,
and weighed him the money in the balances.
Jer
32:11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was
sealed, containing the terms and conditions, and that which was open;
Jer
32:12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of
Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's
son, and in the presence of the witnesses who subscribed the deed of
the purchase, before all the Jews who sat in the court of the guard.
Jer
32:13 I commanded Baruch before them, saying,
Jer
32:14 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Take these
deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which
is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue
many days.
Jer
32:15 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Houses and
fields and vineyards shall yet again be bought in this land.
Jer
32:16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch
the son of Neriah, I prayed to Yahweh, saying,
Jer
32:17 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the
earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm; there is
nothing too hard for you,
Jer
32:18 who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the
iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them;
the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is his name;
Jer
32:19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on
all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his
ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Jer
32:20 who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to
this day, both in Israel and among other
men; and made you a name, as in this day;
Jer
32:21 and brought forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt
with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terror;
Jer
32:22 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers
to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Jer
32:23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your
voice, neither walked in your law; they have done nothing of all that
you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to
come on them.
Jer
32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and
the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against
it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence;
and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.
Jer
32:25 You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money,
and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:26 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
32:27 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything
too hard for me?
Jer
32:28 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into
the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, and he shall take it:
Jer
32:29 and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and
set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs
they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to
other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jer
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done
only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the
children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of
their hands, says Yahweh.
Jer
32:31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of
my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day; that I
should remove it from before my face,
Jer
32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the
children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they,
their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and
the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Jer
32:33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though
I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not
listened to receive instruction.
Jer
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called
by my name, to defile it.
Jer
32:35 They built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of
the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire
to Molech; which I didn't command them, neither did it come into my
mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Jer
32:36 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning
this city, about which you say, It is given into the hand of the king
of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:
Jer
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I
have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great
indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will
cause them to dwell safely:
Jer
32:38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Jer
32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear
me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Jer
32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will
not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my
fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Jer
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will
plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my
whole soul.
Jer
32:42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great
evil on this people, so will I bring on them all the good that I have
promised them.
Jer
32:43 Fields shall be bought in this land, about which you say, It
is desolate, without man or animal; it is given into the hand of the
Chaldeans.
Jer
32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and
seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the
places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities
of the hill country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time,
while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Jer
33:2 Thus says Yahweh who does it, Yahweh who forms it to establish
it; Yahweh is his name:
Jer
33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great
things, and difficult, which you don't know.
Jer
33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses
of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which
are broken down to make a defense
against the mounds and against the sword;
Jer
33:5 while men
come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead
bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and
for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city:
Jer
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them;
and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Jer
33:7 I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel
to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jer
33:8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have
sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which
they have sinned against me, and by which they have transgressed
against me.
Jer
33:9 This city
shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory,
before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good
that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and
for all the peace that I procure to it.
Jer
33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this
place, about which you say, It is waste, without man and without
animal, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem,
that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without
animal,
Jer
33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say,
Give thanks to Yahweh of Armies, for Yahweh is good, for his loving
kindness endures forever; and of them
who bring sacrifices of
thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity
of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
Jer
33:12 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this
place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its
cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jer
33:13 In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the
lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin,
and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall
the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says
Yahweh.
Jer
33:14 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that
good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and
concerning the house of Judah.
Jer
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of
righteousness to grow up to David; and he shall execute justice and
righteousness in the land.
Jer
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell
safely; and this is the name
by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
Jer
33:17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit on
the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer
33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to
offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do
sacrifice continually.
Jer
33:19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and
my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in
their season;
Jer
33:21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant,
that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the
Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer
33:22 As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of
the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant,
and the Levites who minister to me.
Jer
33:23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
33:24 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The
two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do
they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before
them.
Jer
33:25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I
have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer
33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my
servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the
seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity
to return, and will have mercy on them.
Nov.
21
Jeremiah
34-37
Jer
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the
kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the
peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
of it, saying:
Jer
34:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah
king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it
with fire:
Jer
34:3 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be
taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes
of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth,
and you shall go to Babylon.
Jer
34:4 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus
says Yahweh concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;
Jer
34:5 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers,
the former kings who were before you, so shall they make a burning
for you; and they shall lament you, saying,
Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
Jer
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah
king of Judah in Jerusalem,
Jer
34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem,
and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish
and against Azekah; for these alone
remained of the cities of Judah as
fortified cities.
Jer
34:8 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king
Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people who were at
Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
Jer
34:9 that every man should let his male servant, and every man his
female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none
should make bondservants of them, to
wit, of a Jew his brother.
Jer
34:10 All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered
into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and
everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make
bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
Jer
34:11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the
handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them
into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
Jer
34:12 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh,
saying,
Jer
34:13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with
your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,
Jer
34:14 At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his
brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you
six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers
didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.
Jer
34:15 You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my
eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had
made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
Jer
34:16 but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at
their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to
be to you for servants and for handmaids.
Jer
34:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to
proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his
neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the
sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to
be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Jer
34:18 I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who
have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before
me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts;
Jer
34:19 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the
eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed
between the parts of the calf;
Jer
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into
the hand of those who seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be
for food to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth.
Jer
34:21 Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the
hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their
life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, who have gone
away from you.
Jer
34:22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return
to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn
it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.
Jer
35:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
Jer
35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring
them into the house of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give
them wine to drink.
Jer
35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of
Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole house
of the Rechabites;
Jer
35:4 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber
of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was
by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of
Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
Jer
35:5 I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full
of wine, and cups; and I said to them, Drink you wine.
Jer
35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of
Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine,
neither you, nor your sons, forever:
Jer
35:7 neither shall you build house, nor sow seed, nor plant
vineyard, nor have any; but all your days you shall dwell in tents;
that you may live many days in the land in which you sojourn.
Jer
35:8 We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our
father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days,
we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
Jer
35:9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
Jer
35:10 but we have lived in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jer
35:11 But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up
into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for
fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the
Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
Jer
35:12 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
35:13 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Go, and tell
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will you not
receive instruction to listen to my words? says Yahweh.
Jer
35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his
sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and to this day they drink
none, for they obey their father's commandment: but I have spoken to
you, rising up early and speaking; and you have not listened to me.
Jer
35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising
up early and sending them, saying, Return you now every man from his
evil way, and amend your doings, and don't go after other gods to
serve them, and you shall dwell in the land which I have given to you
and to your fathers: but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened
to me.
Jer
35:16 Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed
the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this
people has not listened to me;
Jer
35:17 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of
Israel: Behold, I will bring on Judah and on all the inhabitants of
Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I
have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I have called to
them, but they have not answered.
Jer
35:18 Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh
of Armies, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the commandment
of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according
to all that he commanded you;
Jer
35:19 therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me
forever.
Jer
36:1 It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah,
king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Jer
36:2 Take a scroll of a book, and write therein all the words that I
have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all
the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah,
even to this day.
Jer
36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which
I purpose to do to them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
Jer
36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote
from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had
spoken to him, on a scroll of a book.
Jer
36:5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I can't go
into the house of Yahweh:
Jer
36:6 therefore go you, and read in the scroll, which you have
written from my mouth, the words of Yahweh in the ears of the people
in Yahweh's house on the fast day; and also you shall read them in
the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities.
Jer
36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh,
and will return everyone from his evil way; for great is the anger
and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced against this people.
Jer
36:8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the
prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in
Yahweh's house.
Jer
36:9 Now it happened in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that all the people in
Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the cities of Judah to
Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
Jer
36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
house of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the
scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
house, in the ears of all the people.
Jer
36:11 When Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of Yahweh,
Jer
36:12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber:
and behold, all the princes were sitting there, to
wit, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah
the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the
son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the
princes.
Jer
36:13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard,
when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.
Jer
36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in
your hand the scroll in which you have read in the ears of the
people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his
hand, and came to them.
Jer
36:15 They said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So
Baruch read it in their ears.
Jer
36:16 Now it happened, when they had heard all the words, they
turned in fear one toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely
tell the king of all these words.
Jer
36:17 They asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all
these words at his mouth?
Jer
36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me
with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.
Jer
36:19 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and
Jeremiah; and let no man know where you are.
Jer
36:20 They went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up
the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all
the words in the ears of the king.
Jer
36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll; and he took it out
of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it in the ears of
the king, and in the ears of all the princes who stood beside the
king.
Jer
36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth
month: and there was a fire in
the brazier burning before him.
Jer
36:23 It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that
the king
cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the
brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in
the brazier.
Jer
36:24 They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the
king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.
Jer
36:25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he
would not hear them.
Jer
36:26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the
son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the
scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Yahweh hid them.
Jer
36:27 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king
had burned the scroll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth
of Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
36:28 Take again another scroll, and write in it all the former
words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of
Judah has burned.
Jer
36:29 Concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says
Yahweh: You have burned this scroll, saying, Why have you written
therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy
this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and animal?
Jer
36:30 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah:
He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body
shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the
frost.
Jer
36:31 I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their
iniquity; and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the evil that I have
pronounced against them, but they didn't listen.
Jer
36:32 Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the
scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had
burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like
words.
Jer
37:1 Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah
the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king
in the land of Judah.
Jer
37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land,
did listen to the words of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet
Jeremiah.
Jer
37:3 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and
Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah,
saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.
Jer
37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they
had not put him into prison.
Jer
37:5 Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the
Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news of them, they broke
up from Jerusalem.
Jer
37:6 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
37:7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, You shall tell the king of
Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army,
which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own
land.
Jer
37:8 The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city;
and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
Jer
37:9 Thus says Yahweh, Don't deceive yourselves, saying, The
Chaldeans shall surely depart from us; for they shall not depart.
Jer
37:10 For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who
fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes
would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with
fire.
Jer
37:11 It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up
from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
Jer
37:12 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land
of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the
people.
Jer
37:13 When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard
was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of
Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are
falling away to the Chaldeans.
Jer
37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the
Chaldeans. But he didn't listen to him; so Irijah laid hold on
Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
Jer
37:15 The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put
him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made
that the prison.
Jer
37:16 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon house, and into the
cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
Jer
37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king
asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from
Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered
into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Jer
37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned
against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that
you have put me in prison?
Jer
37:19 Where now are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The
king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?
Jer
37:20 Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication
be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house
of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.
Jer
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah
into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread
out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city was spent.
Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Nov.
22
Jeremiah
38-41
Jer
38:1 Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur,
and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah,
heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
Jer
38:2 Thus says Yahweh, He who remains in this city shall die by the
sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he who goes forth to
the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey,
and he shall live.
Jer
38:3 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand
of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
Jer
38:4 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you,
be put to death; because he weakens the hands of the men of war who
remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking
such words to them: for this man doesn't seek the welfare of this
people, but the hurt.
Jer
38:5 Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the
king is not he who can do anything against you.
Jer
38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of
Malchijah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and
they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water,
but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Jer
38:7 Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the
king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the
king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),
Jer
38:8 Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the
king, saying,
Jer
38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the
dungeon; and he is likely to die in the place where he is, because of
the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
Jer
38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take
from hence thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out
of the dungeon, before he dies.
Jer
38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out
garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
Jer
38:12 Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags
and worn-out garments under your armholes under the cords. Jeremiah
did so.
Jer
38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out
of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Jer
38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to
him into the third entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king
said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing; hide nothing from me.
Jer
38:15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will
you not surely put me to death? and if I give you counsel, you will
not listen to me.
Jer
38:16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As
Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death,
neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your
life.
Jer
38:17 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of
Armies, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of
Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not
be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.
Jer
38:18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes,
then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and
they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their
hand.
Jer
38:19 Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews
who are fallen away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their
hand, and they mock me.
Jer
38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg
you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall
be well with you, and your soul shall live.
Jer
38:21 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh
has shown me:
Jer
38:22 behold, all the women who are left in the king of Judah's
house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and
those women shall say, Your familiar friends have set you on, and
have prevailed over you: now that
your feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.
Jer
38:23 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the
Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be
taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this
city to be burned with fire.
Jer
38:24 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these
words, and you shall not die.
Jer
38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they
come to you, and tell you, Declare to us now what you have said to
the king; don't hide it from us, and we will not put you to death;
also what the king said to you:
Jer
38:26 then you shall tell them, I presented my supplication before
the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house,
to die there.
Jer
38:27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he
told them according to all these words that the king had commanded.
So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.
Jer
38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that
Jerusalem was taken.
Jer
39:1 It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of
Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;
Jer
39:2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),
Jer
39:3 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in
the middle gate, to wit,
Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer,
Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
Jer
39:4 It happened that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the
men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city
by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the gate between
the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Jer
39:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
Jer
39:6 Then the king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes: also the king of Babylon killed all the nobles of
Judah.
Jer
39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters,
to carry him to Babylon.
Jer
39:8 The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the
people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jer
39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive
into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the
deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people
who remained.
Jer
39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of
the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them
vineyards and fields at the same time.
Jer
39:11 Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon commanded Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard concerning Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to
him even as he shall tell you.
Jer
39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban,
Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of
the king of Babylon;
Jer
39:14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard,
and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan,
that he should carry him home: so he lived among the people.
Jer
39:15 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up
in the court of the guard, saying,
Jer
39:16 Go, and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words on
this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished
before you in that day.
Jer
39:17 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall
not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
Jer
39:18 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the
sword, but your life shall be for a prey to you; because you have put
your trust in me, says Yahweh.
Jer
40:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when
he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of
Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
Jer
40:2 The captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh
your God pronounced this evil on this place;
Jer
40:3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke:
because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his
voice, therefore this thing is come on you.
Jer
40:4 Now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are on
your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon,
come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come
with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you;
where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
Jer
40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, said
he, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the
son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the
cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever
it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him
food and a present, and let him go.
Jer
40:6 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and
lived with him among the people who were left in the land.
Jer
40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields,
even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to
him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of the land, of
those who were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jer
40:8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, to
wit, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of
Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the
son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
Jer
40:9 Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and
to their men, saying, Don't be afraid to serve the Chaldeans: dwell
in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with
you.
Jer
40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the
Chaldeans who shall come to us: but you, gather you wine and summer
fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your
cities that you have taken.
Jer
40:11 Likewise when all the Jews who were in Moab, and among the
children of Ammon, and in Edom, and who were in all the countries,
heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that
he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;
Jer
40:12 then all the Jews returned out of all places where they were
driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and
gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Jer
40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces who were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Jer
40:14 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the
children of Ammon has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your
life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam didn't believe them.
Jer
40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah
secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son
of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life,
that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and
the remnant of Judah perish?
Jer
40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of
Kareah, You shall not do this thing; for you speak falsely of
Ishmael.
Jer
41:1 Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one
of the chief officers of the king, and
ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and
there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
Jer
41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who
were with him, and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan with the sword, and killed him, whom the king of Babylon had
made governor over the land.
Jer
41:3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, to
wit, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the
Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.
Jer
41:4 It happened the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, and no
man knew it,
Jer
41:5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from
Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their
clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and
frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
Jer
41:6 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet
them, weeping all along as he went: and it happened, as he met them,
he said to them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
Jer
41:7 It was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them, and
cast them into the midst of the pit, he,
and the men who were with him.
Jer
41:8 But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't
kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of
barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them
among their brothers.
Jer
41:9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the
men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who
which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel),
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
Jer
41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the
people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the
people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
children of Ammon.
Jer
41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces who were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah had done,
Jer
41:12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the
son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in
Gibeon.
Jer
41:13 Now it happened that, when all the people who were with
Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces who were with him, then they were glad.
Jer
41:14 So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from
Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of
Kareah.
Jer
41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with
eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.
Jer
41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of
the forces who were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he
had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after
that he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to
wit, the men of war, and the women, and
the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon:
Jer
41:17 and they departed, and lived in Geruth Chimham, which is by
Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
Jer
41:18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them,
because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.
Nov. 20
Hebrews
6
Heb 6:1
Therefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ,
let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of
repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
Heb 6:2
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection
of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
Heb 6:3
This will we do, if God permits.
Heb 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Heb 6:5
and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,
Heb 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to
repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again,
and put him to open shame.
Heb 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and
brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also
tilled, receives blessing from God;
Heb 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being
cursed, whose end is to be burned.
Heb 6:9
But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things
that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.
Heb
6:10 For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the
labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served
the saints, and still do serve them.
Heb
6:11 We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to
the fullness of hope even to the end,
Heb
6:12 that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherited the promises.
Heb
6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by
none greater, he swore by himself,
Heb
6:14 saying, "Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying
I will multiply you."
Heb
6:15 Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Heb
6:16 For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of
theirs the oath is final for confirmation.
Heb
6:17 In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to
the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed
with an oath;
Heb
6:18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God
to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge
to take hold of the hope set before us.
Heb
6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure
and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
Heb
6:20 where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a
high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
Nov. 21
Hebrews
7
Heb 7:1
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who
met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed
him,
Heb 7:2
to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by
interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem,
which is king of peace;
Heb 7:3
without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither
beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God),
remains a priest continually.
Heb 7:4
Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the
patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils.
Heb 7:5
They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have
a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that
is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the body of
Abraham,
Heb 7:6
but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has accepted tithes
from Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises.
Heb 7:7
But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.
Heb 7:8
Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of
whom it is testified that he lives.
Heb 7:9
We can say that through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has
paid tithes,
Heb
7:10 for he was yet in the body of his father when Melchizedek met
him.
Heb
7:11 Now if there was perfection through the Levitical priesthood
(for under it the people have received the law), what further need
was there for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek,
and not be called after the order of Aaron?
Heb
7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is of necessity a
change made also in the law.
Heb
7:13 For he of whom these things are said belongs to another tribe,
from which no one has officiated at the altar.
Heb
7:14 For it is evident that our Lord has sprung out of Judah, about
which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.
Heb
7:15 This is yet more abundantly evident, if after the likeness of
Melchizedek there arises another priest,
Heb
7:16 who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment,
but after the power of an endless life:
Heb
7:17 for it is testified, "You are a priest forever, according
to the order of Melchizedek."
Heb
7:18 For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of
its weakness and uselessness
Heb
7:19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a
better hope, through which we draw near to God.
Heb
7:20 Inasmuch as he was not made priest without the taking of an
oath
Heb
7:21 (for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but
he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and
will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, according to the
order of Melchizedek.' "
Heb
7:22 By so much, Jesus has become the collateral of a better
covenant.
Heb
7:23 Many, indeed, have been made priests, because they are hindered
from continuing by death.
Heb
7:24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood
unchangeable.
Heb
7:25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who
draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make
intercession for them.
Heb
7:26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless,
undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Heb
7:27 who doesn't need, like those high priests, to offer up
sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of
the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
Heb
7:28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but
the word of the oath which came after the law appoints a Son forever
who has been perfected.
Nov. 22
Hebrews
8
Heb 8:1
Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We
have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne
of the Majesty in the heavens,
Heb 8:2
a servant of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the
Lord pitched, not man.
Heb 8:3
For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and
sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have
something to offer.
Heb 8:4
For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing
there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
Heb 8:5
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses
was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he
said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern
that was shown to you on the mountain."
Heb 8:6
But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he
is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises
has been given as law.
Heb 8:7
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would
have been sought for a second.
Heb 8:8
For finding fault with them, he said, "Behold, the days come,"
says the Lord, "that I will make a new covenant with the house
of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Heb 8:9
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the
day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of
Egypt; for they didn't continue in my covenant, and I disregarded
them," says the Lord.
Heb
8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my
laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will
be their God, and they will be my people.
Heb
8:11 They will not teach every man his fellow citizen, and every
man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them.
Heb
8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. I will
remember their sins and lawless deeds no more."
Heb
8:13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the
first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to
vanishing away.
