Month: July 2023

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07/01/2023 DAB Transcript

2 Kings 18:13-19:37, Acts 21:1-17, Psalms 149:1-9, Proverbs 18:8

Today is the 1st day of July welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today as we walk into the seventh month of the year together. Today is the 182nd day of the year. And we reached the halfway point yesterday as we ended the month of June. And, so, here we are launching ourselves into the second half, the second half of the Scriptures, the second half of the year as the adventure continues. And we concluded our first half of the year with a somber…with a couple of kind of somber and more sobering stories. In the Old Testament, the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and carried all of its people into exile, thereby bringing an end to the northern kingdom of…of Israel. And, so, as we move forward now there is no northern kingdom of Israel. And then in the book of Acts we saw Paul sailing back through Ephesus and the leaders of the church at Ephesus coming to see him as he continues his journey back toward Jerusalem. And he lets them know that they will never be able to see each other again in that life, in this life in person. The Holy Spirit has given Paul some advance words about what he will face as he continues his journey to Jerusalem. And we’ll all get to experience that as we continue in the days ahead. But that’s how we kind of landed our first half of the year. And let’s step forward into the second half. And that obviously leads us right where we left off and that happens to be the book of second Kings. And today we’ll read chapters 18 verse 13 through 19 verse 37.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You. We thank You for Your word. And here at the threshold as we begin this brand-new shiny sparkly month and move into the back half of the year we…we are grateful. We are humbled by Your generosity toward us and loving us and caring for us and being patient with us and guiding us and directing us. We are grateful for all that You have done in our lives thus far in the year and we are also declaring that we are open and look for…looking forward to all that You will teach us and all of the things that You will reveal to us as You continue to direct us forward. May we have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a willing heart to obey we pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Announcements:

dailyaudiobible.com is homebase, that is the website, that’s where you find out what’s going on around here. And here we are in the month of July.

And, so, just a few days from now, the 7th day of July, which is a week from yesterday, the 7th day of July is our own little Global Campfire holiday around here that we love…lovingly call the Daily Audio Bible long walk because that's…that’s what it is. It’s that. It’s this day on the calendar that we carve out that we defend, that we take because we need…because we need it. It’s a day for our hearts. It’s a day for God. It’s a day to go for a long walk, bringing our full presence, our hearts and walking with God giving ourselves to Him again. Going for a long walk, the kind of long walk that you do when you’re in love with somebody. The kind long walk, right, hand in hand, slow stroll, maybe even fast-paced. Doesn’t really matter. The point is together. And on those walks time goes away. Like wasting time…like what we would think of as time wasted away from productivity is actually time invested into actual life and relationship, what we are made for, what we are working so hard for. It’s a day to say that’s my day. It’s the middle of the year. I need to regroup. I gotta second half of the year I gotta live. I cannot go blindly into that. I gotta lot that’s going on inside of me. I’m going to go and spend the day with the wonderful counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace. I’m gonna spend my day and I’m gonna say at all and I’m gonna listen, and I’m gonna listen and obey. So, that’s a beautiful thing to do. Go somewhere beautiful. Go for a long walk. Take the day. Spend it enjoying the lavish gift of the earth that God has given us that He offers to us each and every day. Enjoy it. Let it fill you up. Let it restore your soul. It’s unbelievable even what birdsong can do to a person’s mental health. So, everybody pick somewhere beautiful wherever you may be in the world. We’ll all be all over the world. We’ll be walking with God. Imagine that. Our community all over the world walking, literally walking with God. What makes it a community experience is that after we spend our day, maybe we took a picture while we were out there, maybe we took a video wherever we went. We want to remember the day ourselves and commemorate it ourselves and remember what God may have spoke to us ourselves. So, we come back to the Daily Audio Bible Facebook page - facebook.com/dailyaudiobible and we will have a post there on the 7th July for the long walk. And as we complete our long walks, we can come back and post our pictures and videos and stories and that makes a story all of its own, the story of the day, the story of us all going and walking with God and we can hear from each other and what we heard and what we saw. And its lovely. So, make plans for that. It’s less than a week away. It’s the 7th of July, this coming Friday. The Daily Audio Bible long walk.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hello I’ve been listener since I think about 2010. One of my good friends for a long time is laid up with cancer dying and I just ask for you all the pray for her. Her name is Katie and also for her girl. She’s about 11. Lilly Ann. Katies in hospice. And anyway it’s really heartbreaking and I don’t know…I would love for the Lord to heal her. But I just ask for you all to pray for Katie and Lily Ann. Thank you.

Hi DAB family this is Rebecca from Missouri. I am brand new to the Daily Audio Bible having just found out about it a couple of weeks ago and I’m loving it. I’m praying with all of you. And I ask for your prayers. Today marks one month since my dad passed away. This happened on May 26th. He was 64 years old, and he died after having a series of four strokes over the course of just under a year. And my mom is 63 and they were married for 44 years. And my mom went straight from being a 19-year-old living with her parents to a 19 year old bride. So, being alone is new for her. And I ask prayers for my mom Julie. And she’s a Christian and so was my dad. But this is hard on her big time. And, so, I ask that you pray that she gets friends to hang out with, finds things to do, keeps busy, goes traveling, all of the things that she can do now as a widow, that…that she just misses my dad less and less because it’s hard on her right now. Lord just please protect my mom and love her. Let her know that there’s so many people who love her and are there for her. She has neighbors, she has family. Let her know that she can lean on us all that she needs to and keep her from feeling like she’s a burden because she’s not, not at all. Thank you, Lord, for such a good mom and for giving me such a good dad in Jesus’s name Amen. Thank you everyone.

Good morning DAB family this is mummy’s Little Rock from Arkansas. I just wanted to call in. I listened to the June 25th prayer request for that day and Sharon from Tacoma WA called in. I believe that was your name. But her mom is now having to enter hospice and she was just feeling so overwhelmed. And Sharon I just…oh…I totally felt your call having gone through that with my mom 2-½ years ago, just feeling like, oh my goodness, I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what’s gonna be best for her, the hospice care team. It was just all overwhelming and also very heartbreaking because we know the end was near…we knew the end was near. And, so, having to deal with all of that as well as being kind of thrust into making decisions was just so overwhelming. And your voice just took me right back to that moment where I had to make decisions for my mom as well, my brother and I. And I just want you to know that God hears you, that He loves you, and He’s holding you. And although I kind of knew that…I always knew that but just…I just needed strength to get through and I would pray every single moment every day to just ask for strength. And I promise you the Lord will give that to you. He gave it to me. I don’t know how I made it through without God. I know that He was there pushing me and pulling me and helping me to get through. So, just know that you’re loved and you are supported and you will get through this as well. God bless you.

Hello DAB family, Bubba Dee from Tennessee currently in Minnesota. I want to pray for today June 27th Eyes of a Dove you’re going through all those troubles with Ryland. Know that you’re not the only one. Parenting for a high schooler for me personally has been the toughest time in my life and still walking through a few things. And I’m gonna lift you up dear sister. Heavenly father I’m asking for Ryland, I’m asking that he would come back to you, come back to understanding what responsibility is, come back to understanding what he is made for. Lord we wanna pray purpose for Ryland. I’m asking God that you meet him what he is. I pray his mom is praying and pouring and even losing it but that all of this would testify to him of Your love and of Your good plan for his life. Just that through the Eyes of the Dove, his mom, he would see how You care for him, how much You want him to succeed, how much You want him to be a person who’s responsible and trustworthy and faithful. We bless him. As a community we lived Ryland up to you heavenly Father. We ask that he would come back to his senses. We now all this is possible. We saw this in the parable of the prodigal and it…

Morning DAB family this is Trucker Justin from Pennsylvania. I just listened to the June 18th podcast and heard Bernice request for his marriage and family. I’m telling you brother I was there last year separated from my wife and kids and I thought it was pretty much over but I pursued fellowship with my church and pursued God and He brought in some brothers into my life that have been through the same thing and they encouraged me and I just want to encourage you and pray for you. So, heavenly Father I would ask for Bernie and anyone else who’s having trouble in their marriage, Father I pray that You would just soften hearts and reconcile these men and women together. Father, restore the love and the peace that they have in their marriages Father and if there’s any sin that needs to be repented of and put away Father I pray that these men and women would have the humility to…to deal with that. So, heavenly Father we thank You for what You will do and I ask these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday July 1, 2023 (NIV)

2 Kings 18:13-19:37

13 In the fourteenth year(A) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah(B) and captured them. 14 So Hezekiah king of Judah sent this message to the king of Assyria at Lachish:(C) “I have done wrong.(D) Withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand of me.” The king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents[a] of silver and thirty talents[b] of gold. 15 So Hezekiah gave(E) him all the silver that was found in the temple of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

16 At this time Hezekiah king of Judah stripped off the gold with which he had covered the doors(F) and doorposts of the temple of the Lord, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem(G)(H)

17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander,(I) his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool,(J) on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 18 They called for the king; and Eliakim(K) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna(L) the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them.

19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah:

“‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence(M) of yours? 20 You say you have the counsel and the might for war—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 21 Look, I know you are depending on Egypt,(N) that splintered reed of a staff,(O) which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 22 But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God”—isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem”?

23 “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 24 How can you repulse one officer(P) of the least of my master’s officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen[c]? 25 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this place without word from the Lord?(Q) The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’”

26 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, and Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic,(R) since we understand it. Don’t speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

27 But the commander replied, “Was it only to your master and you that my master sent me to say these things, and not to the people sitting on the wall—who, like you, will have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”

28 Then the commander stood and called out in Hebrew, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria! 29 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive(S) you. He cannot deliver you from my hand. 30 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the Lord when he says, ‘The Lord will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

31 “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree(T) and drink water from your own cistern,(U) 32 until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life(V) and not death!

“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’ 33 Has the god(W) of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of Hamath(X) and Arpad?(Y) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? 35 Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”(Z)

36 But the people remained silent and said nothing in reply, because the king had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

37 Then Eliakim(AA) son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went to Hezekiah, with their clothes torn,(AB) and told him what the field commander had said.

Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold(AC)

19 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore(AD) his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim(AE) the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests,(AF) all wearing sackcloth,(AG) to the prophet Isaiah(AH) son of Amoz. 3 They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment(AI) of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(AJ) the living God, and that he will rebuke(AK) him for the words the Lord your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant(AL) that still survives.”

5 When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, 6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the Lord says: Do not be afraid(AM) of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed(AN) me. 7 Listen! When he hears a certain report,(AO) I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.(AP)’”

8 When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,(AQ) he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.(AR)

9 Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush,[d] was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: 10 “Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend(AS) on deceive(AT) you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? 12 Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver(AU) them—the gods of Gozan,(AV) Harran,(AW) Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”(AX)

Hezekiah’s Prayer(AY)

14 Hezekiah received the letter(AZ) from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. 15 And Hezekiah prayed to the Lord: “Lord, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,(BA) you alone(BB) are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 16 Give ear,(BC) Lord, and hear;(BD) open your eyes,(BE) Lord, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.

17 “It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods(BF) but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.(BG) 19 Now, Lord our God, deliver(BH) us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms(BI) of the earth may know(BJ) that you alone, Lord, are God.”

Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall(BK)(BL)

20 Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I have heard(BM) your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. 21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken against(BN) him:

“‘Virgin Daughter(BO) Zion
despises(BP) you and mocks(BQ) you.
Daughter Jerusalem
tosses her head(BR) as you flee.
22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?(BS)
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One(BT) of Israel!
23 By your messengers
you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,(BU)
“With my many chariots(BV)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
the utmost heights of Lebanon.
I have cut down(BW) its tallest cedars,
the choicest of its junipers.
I have reached its remotest parts,
the finest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells in foreign lands
and drunk the water there.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

25 “‘Have you not heard?(BX)
Long ago I ordained it.
In days of old I planned(BY) it;
now I have brought it to pass,
that you have turned fortified cities
into piles of stone.(BZ)
26 Their people, drained of power,(CA)
are dismayed(CB) and put to shame.
They are like plants in the field,
like tender green shoots,(CC)
like grass sprouting on the roof,
scorched(CD) before it grows up.

27 “‘But I know(CE) where you are
and when you come and go
and how you rage against me.
28 Because you rage against me
and because your insolence has reached my ears,
I will put my hook(CF) in your nose
and my bit(CG) in your mouth,
and I will make you return(CH)
by the way you came.’

29 “This will be the sign(CI) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,(CJ)
and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
plant vineyards(CK) and eat their fruit.
30 Once more a remnant(CL) of the kingdom of Judah
will take root(CM) below and bear fruit above.
31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(CN)
and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(CO)

“The zeal(CP) of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“‘He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
or build a siege ramp against it.
33 By the way that he came he will return;(CQ)
he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
34 I will defend(CR) this city and save it,
for my sake and for the sake of David(CS) my servant.’”

35 That night the angel of the Lord(CT) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!(CU) 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.(CV) He returned to Nineveh(CW) and stayed there.

37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek(CX) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,(CY) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.(CZ) And Esarhaddon(DA) his son succeeded him as king.

Footnotes:

  1. 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 11 tons or about 10 metric tons
  2. 2 Kings 18:14 That is, about 1 ton or about 1 metric ton
  3. 2 Kings 18:24 Or charioteers
  4. 2 Kings 19:9 That is, the upper Nile region

Cross references:

  1. 2 Kings 18:13 : S ver 2
  2. 2 Kings 18:13 : Isa 1:7; Mic 1:9
  3. 2 Kings 18:14 : 2Ki 19:8
  4. 2 Kings 18:14 : Isa 24:5; 33:8
  5. 2 Kings 18:15 : S 1Ki 15:18; Isa 39:2
  6. 2 Kings 18:16 : 2Ch 29:3
  7. 2 Kings 18:17 : 18:13, 17-37pp — Isa 36:1-22
  8. 2 Kings 18:17 : 18:17-35pp — 2Ch 32:9-19
  9. 2 Kings 18:17 : Isa 20:1
  10. 2 Kings 18:17 : 2Ki 20:20; 2Ch 32:4, 30; Ne 2:14; Isa 22:9
  11. 2 Kings 18:18 : 2Ki 19:2; Isa 22:20; 36:3, 11, 22; 37:2
  12. 2 Kings 18:18 : ver 26, 37; Isa 22:15
  13. 2 Kings 18:19 : S ver 5; S Job 4:6
  14. 2 Kings 18:21 : Isa 20:5; 31:1; Eze 29:6
  15. 2 Kings 18:21 : 2Ki 24:7; Isa 20:6; 30:5, 7; Jer 25:19; 37:7; 46:2
  16. 2 Kings 18:24 : Isa 10:8
  17. 2 Kings 18:25 : 2Ki 19:6, 22; 24:3; 2Ch 35:21
  18. 2 Kings 18:26 : Ezr 4:7
  19. 2 Kings 18:29 : 2Ki 19:10
  20. 2 Kings 18:31 : S Nu 13:23; S 1Ki 4:25
  21. 2 Kings 18:31 : Jer 14:3; La 4:4
  22. 2 Kings 18:32 : Dt 30:19
  23. 2 Kings 18:33 : 2Ki 19:12
  24. 2 Kings 18:34 : S 2Ki 17:24; S Jer 49:23
  25. 2 Kings 18:34 : Isa 10:9
  26. 2 Kings 18:35 : Ps 2:1-2
  27. 2 Kings 18:37 : S ver 18; Isa 33:7; 36:3, 22
  28. 2 Kings 18:37 : S 2Ki 6:30
  29. 2 Kings 19:1 : 19:1-13pp — Isa 37:1-13
  30. 2 Kings 19:1 : S Ge 37:34; S Nu 14:6
  31. 2 Kings 19:2 : S 2Ki 18:18
  32. 2 Kings 19:2 : Jer 19:1
  33. 2 Kings 19:2 : S Ge 37:34
  34. 2 Kings 19:2 : Isa 1:1
  35. 2 Kings 19:3 : Hos 13:13
  36. 2 Kings 19:4 : S 1Sa 17:26
  37. 2 Kings 19:4 : 2Sa 16:12
  38. 2 Kings 19:4 : S Ge 45:7; S Jer 37:3
  39. 2 Kings 19:6 : S Dt 3:2; S Jos 1:9
  40. 2 Kings 19:6 : S 2Ki 18:25
  41. 2 Kings 19:7 : S Ex 14:24; Jer 51:46
  42. 2 Kings 19:7 : ver 37; 2Ch 32:21; Isa 10:12
  43. 2 Kings 19:8 : 2Ki 18:14
  44. 2 Kings 19:8 : S Nu 33:20; S 2Ki 8:22
  45. 2 Kings 19:10 : S 2Ki 18:5
  46. 2 Kings 19:10 : 2Ki 18:29
  47. 2 Kings 19:12 : 2Ki 18:33; 2Ch 32:17
  48. 2 Kings 19:12 : 2Ki 17:6
  49. 2 Kings 19:12 : S Ge 11:31
  50. 2 Kings 19:13 : Isa 10:9-11; Jer 49:23
  51. 2 Kings 19:14 : 19:14-19pp — Isa 37:14-20
  52. 2 Kings 19:14 : 2Ki 5:7
  53. 2 Kings 19:15 : S Ge 3:24; S Ex 25:22
  54. 2 Kings 19:15 : S Ge 1:1; S Jos 2:11
  55. 2 Kings 19:16 : Ps 31:2; 71:2; 88:2; 102:2
  56. 2 Kings 19:16 : S 1Ki 8:29
  57. 2 Kings 19:16 : S Ex 3:16
  58. 2 Kings 19:18 : Isa 44:9-11; Jer 10:3-10
  59. 2 Kings 19:18 : Dt 4:28; Ps 115:4; Ac 17:29
  60. 2 Kings 19:19 : 1Sa 12:10; Job 6:23; Ps 3:7; 71:4
  61. 2 Kings 19:19 : S 1Ki 8:43; 1Ch 16:8
  62. 2 Kings 19:19 : S Jos 4:24; S 1Sa 17:46
  63. 2 Kings 19:20 : 19:20-37pp — Isa 37:21-38
  64. 2 Kings 19:20 : 19:35-37pp — 2Ch 32:20-21
  65. 2 Kings 19:20 : S 1Ki 9:3
  66. 2 Kings 19:21 : Isa 10:5; 33:1
  67. 2 Kings 19:21 : Isa 47:1; Jer 14:17; 18:13; 31:4; 46:11; La 2:13; Am 5:2
  68. 2 Kings 19:21 : Ps 53:5
  69. 2 Kings 19:21 : Pr 1:26; 3:34
  70. 2 Kings 19:21 : Job 16:4; Ps 44:14; 64:8; 109:25; Jer 18:16
  71. 2 Kings 19:22 : S 2Ki 18:25
  72. 2 Kings 19:22 : Lev 19:2; 1Sa 2:2; Job 6:10; Ps 16:10; 22:3; 71:22; 78:41; 89:18; Isa 1:4; 6:3; 57:15; Hos 11:9
  73. 2 Kings 19:23 : Isa 10:18; Jer 21:14; Eze 20:47
  74. 2 Kings 19:23 : Ps 20:7; Jer 50:37
  75. 2 Kings 19:23 : Isa 10:34; 14:8; 33:9; Eze 31:3
  76. 2 Kings 19:25 : Isa 40:21, 28
  77. 2 Kings 19:25 : Isa 22:11
  78. 2 Kings 19:25 : Mic 1:6
  79. 2 Kings 19:26 : Isa 13:7; Eze 7:17; Zep 3:16
  80. 2 Kings 19:26 : Ps 6:10; 71:24; 83:17; Isa 41:23; Jer 8:9
  81. 2 Kings 19:26 : Isa 4:2; 11:1; 53:2; Jer 23:5
  82. 2 Kings 19:26 : Job 8:12; Ps 37:2; 129:6
  83. 2 Kings 19:27 : Ps 139:1-4
  84. 2 Kings 19:28 : 2Ch 33:11; Eze 19:9; 29:4; 38:4; Am 4:2
  85. 2 Kings 19:28 : Isa 30:28
  86. 2 Kings 19:28 : ver 33
  87. 2 Kings 19:29 : S Ex 7:9; S Dt 13:2; Lk 2:12
  88. 2 Kings 19:29 : Lev 25:5
  89. 2 Kings 19:29 : Ps 107:37; Isa 65:21; Am 9:14
  90. 2 Kings 19:30 : S Ge 45:7
  91. 2 Kings 19:30 : Isa 5:24; 11:1; 27:6; Eze 17:22; Am 2:9
  92. 2 Kings 19:31 : S Ge 45:7
  93. 2 Kings 19:31 : Isa 66:19; Zep 2:9; Zec 14:16
  94. 2 Kings 19:31 : Isa 9:7
  95. 2 Kings 19:33 : ver 28
  96. 2 Kings 19:34 : 2Ki 20:6
  97. 2 Kings 19:34 : S 2Sa 7:15
  98. 2 Kings 19:35 : S Ge 19:13; S Ex 12:23
  99. 2 Kings 19:35 : Job 24:24; Isa 17:14; 41:12; Na 3:3
  100. 2 Kings 19:36 : S 2Ki 12:18
  101. 2 Kings 19:36 : S Ge 10:11
  102. 2 Kings 19:37 : 2Ki 17:31
  103. 2 Kings 19:37 : S ver 7
  104. 2 Kings 19:37 : S Ge 8:4
  105. 2 Kings 19:37 : S 2Ki 17:24
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Acts 21:1-17

On to Jerusalem

21 After we(A) had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. 2 We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia,(B) went on board and set sail. 3 After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria.(C) We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo. 4 We sought out the disciples(D) there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit(E) they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 5 When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray.(F) 6 After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.

7 We continued our voyage from Tyre(G) and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters(H) and stayed with them for a day. 8 Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea(I) and stayed at the house of Philip(J) the evangelist,(K) one of the Seven. 9 He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.(L)

10 After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus(M) came down from Judea. 11 Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, “The Holy Spirit says,(N) ‘In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind(O) the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.’”(P)

12 When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. 13 Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die(Q) in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”(R) 14 When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up(S) and said, “The Lord’s will be done.”(T)

15 After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem.(U) 16 Some of the disciples from Caesarea(V) accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus(W) and one of the early disciples.

Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem

17 When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters(X) received us warmly.(Y)

Cross references:

  1. Acts 21:1 : S Ac 16:10
  2. Acts 21:2 : Ac 11:19
  3. Acts 21:3 : S Lk 2:2
  4. Acts 21:4 : S Ac 11:26
  5. Acts 21:4 : ver 11; Ac 20:23
  6. Acts 21:5 : Lk 22:41; Ac 9:40; 20:36
  7. Acts 21:7 : Ac 12:20
  8. Acts 21:7 : S Ac 1:16
  9. Acts 21:8 : S Ac 8:40
  10. Acts 21:8 : Ac 6:5; 8:5-40
  11. Acts 21:8 : Eph 4:11; 2Ti 4:5
  12. Acts 21:9 : Ex 15:20; Jdg 4:4; Ne 6:14; Lk 2:36; Ac 2:17; 1Co 11:5
  13. Acts 21:10 : Ac 11:28
  14. Acts 21:11 : S Ac 8:29
  15. Acts 21:11 : ver 33
  16. Acts 21:11 : 1Ki 22:11; Isa 20:2-4; Jer 13:1-11; Mt 20:19
  17. Acts 21:13 : Ac 20:24
  18. Acts 21:13 : S Jn 15:21; S Ac 9:16
  19. Acts 21:14 : Ru 1:18
  20. Acts 21:14 : S Mt 26:39
  21. Acts 21:15 : S Ac 19:21
  22. Acts 21:16 : S Ac 8:40
  23. Acts 21:16 : ver 3, 4
  24. Acts 21:17 : S Ac 9:30
  25. Acts 21:17 : Ac 15:4
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Psalm 149

Psalm 149

1 Praise the Lord.[a](A)

Sing to the Lord a new song,(B)
his praise in the assembly(C) of his faithful people.

2 Let Israel rejoice(D) in their Maker;(E)
let the people of Zion be glad in their King.(F)
3 Let them praise his name with dancing(G)
and make music to him with timbrel and harp.(H)
4 For the Lord takes delight(I) in his people;
he crowns the humble with victory.(J)
5 Let his faithful people rejoice(K) in this honor
and sing for joy on their beds.(L)

6 May the praise of God be in their mouths(M)
and a double-edged(N) sword in their hands,(O)
7 to inflict vengeance(P) on the nations
and punishment(Q) on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with fetters,(R)
their nobles with shackles of iron,(S)
9 to carry out the sentence written against them—(T)
this is the glory of all his faithful people.(U)

Praise the Lord.

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 149:1 Hebrew Hallelu Yah; also in verse 9

Cross references:

  1. Psalm 149:1 : Ps 33:2; 103:1
  2. Psalm 149:1 : S Ps 28:7; S 96:1; Rev 5:9
  3. Psalm 149:1 : S Ps 1:5
  4. Psalm 149:2 : Isa 13:3; Jer 51:48
  5. Psalm 149:2 : S Job 10:3; Ps 95:6; Isa 44:2; 45:11; 54:5
  6. Psalm 149:2 : Ps 10:16; 47:6; Isa 32:1; Zec 9:9
  7. Psalm 149:3 : S Ex 15:20
  8. Psalm 149:3 : S Ps 57:8
  9. Psalm 149:4 : Ps 35:27; 147:11
  10. Psalm 149:4 : Ps 132:16
  11. Psalm 149:5 : S Ps 132:16
  12. Psalm 149:5 : Job 35:10; Ps 42:8
  13. Psalm 149:6 : Ps 66:17
  14. Psalm 149:6 : Heb 4:12; Rev 1:16
  15. Psalm 149:6 : Ne 4:17
  16. Psalm 149:7 : S Nu 31:3; S Dt 32:41
  17. Psalm 149:7 : Ps 81:15
  18. Psalm 149:8 : S 2Sa 3:34; S Isa 14:1-2
  19. Psalm 149:8 : 2Ch 33:11
  20. Psalm 149:9 : Dt 7:1; Eze 28:26
  21. Psalm 149:9 : S Ps 145:10
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Proverbs 18:8

8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels;
they go down to the inmost parts.(A)

Cross references:

  1. Proverbs 18:8 : Pr 26:22
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