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  • Ezekiel 1
    Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
    In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
    The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
    And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
    Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
    And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
    And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
    And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
    Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
    As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
    Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
    And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
    As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
    And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
    Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
    The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
    When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
    As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
    And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
    Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
    When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
    And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
    And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
    And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
    And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
    And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appear
    6 min
  • 2nd Kings 9
    And Elisha the prophet called one of the children of the prophets, and said unto him, Gird up thy loins, and take this box of oil in thine hand, and go to Ramothgilead:
    And when thou comest thither, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an inner chamber;
    Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
    So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramothgilead.
    And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.
    And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the LORD, even over Israel.
    And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
    For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:
    And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah:
    And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
    Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man, and his communication.
    And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel.
    Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
    So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramothgilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
    But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
    So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
    And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
    So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not again.
    Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.
    And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.
    And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
    And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?
    And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.
    And Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow
    8 min
  • 2nd Corinthians 3,4
    Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
    Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
    Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
    And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
    Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
    Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
    But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
    How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
    For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
    For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
    For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
    Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
    And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
    But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
    But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
    Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
    Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
    But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
    Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
    But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
    But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
    In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
    For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
    For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
    But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
    We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
    Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
    Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
    For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
    So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
    We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
    Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
    For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
    For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
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    6 min
  • Lamentations 5
    Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
    Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
    We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
    We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
    Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
    We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
    Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
    Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
    We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
    They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
    Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
    They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
    The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
    The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
    The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
    For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
    Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
    Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
    Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
    Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
    But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
    3 min
  • 2nd Kings 8
    Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
    And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
    And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry unto the king for her house and for her land.
    And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
    And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
    And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.
    And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.
    And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
    So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
    And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.
    And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
    And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.
    And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The LORD hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.
    So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
    And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
    And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Je hoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
    Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
    And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
    Yet the LORD would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him alway a light, and to his children.
    In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
    So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
    Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
    And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
    And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in
    6 min
  • 2nd Corinthians 1,2
    Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
    Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
    Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
    For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
    And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
    And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
    For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
    But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
    Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
    Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
    For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
    For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;
    As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus.
    And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;
    And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
    When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
    But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
    For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
    For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
    Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
    Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
    Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
    Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
    But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
    For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
    And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
    For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
    But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
    Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
    So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
    Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
    7 min
  • Lamentations 4
    How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
    The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
    Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
    The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
    They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
    For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
    Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
    Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
    They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
    The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
    The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
    The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
    For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
    They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
    They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
    The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
    As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
    They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
    Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
    The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
    Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
    The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
    4 min
  • Lamentations 3
    I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
    He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
    Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
    My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
    He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
    He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
    He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
    Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
    He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
    He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
    He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
    He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
    He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
    I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
    He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
    He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
    And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
    And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
    Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
    My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
    This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
    It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
    They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
    The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
    The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
    It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
    It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.
    He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
    He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
    He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
    For the LORD will not cast off for ever:
    But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
    For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
    To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.
    To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
    To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.
    Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
    Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
    Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
    Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
    We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
    Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
    Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
    Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
    All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
    Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
    Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
    Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.
    Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
    Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
    They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
    Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
    I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
    Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
    Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
    O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed
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  • 2nd Kings 7
    Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
    Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
    And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
    If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
    And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
    For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
    Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
    And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
    Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household.
    So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
    And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.
    And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
    And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
    They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
    And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.
    And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
    And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
    And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
    And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if the LORD should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine
    4 min
  • 1st Corinthians 16
    Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.
    Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
    And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
    And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
    Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.
    And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.
    For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
    But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
    For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
    Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.
    Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.
    As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall have convenient time.
    Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
    Let all your things be done with charity.
    I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
    That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.
    I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
    For they have refreshed my spirit and your's: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.
    The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.
    All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
    The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
    If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
    The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
    My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
    3 min

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