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4/12/2023 DAB Transcript

Joshua 5:1-7:15, Luke 15:1-32, Psalm 81:1-16, Proverbs 13:1

Today is the 12th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. It is wonderful to be around the Global Campfire with you today. Every day is wonderful. This is the best place to be in the world for me, around the Global Campfire together, immersing ourselves in the Scriptures together. What an incredible journey we are on. And our journey in the Old Testament has led us all the way into the Book of Joshua. And as we’ve moved into the Book of Joshua, we’ve gotten to do something that we’ve been waiting to do since Genesis, and that is to go into the Promised Land. We crossed into the Promised Land yesterday with the children of Israel. So that’s where we find ourselves, just on the other side of the Jordan River, actually in the Promised Land. And memorial stones were placed, so that the children of Israel would be able to come back to this spot and remember what happened there, what God did there. And we talked about that yesterday and memorializing our own lives. And so, here we are in the Promised Land. Let’s take the next step forward and see what happens next. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Joshua chapter 5 verse 1 through 7 verse 15 today.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of Psalms today, we get the opportunity to think about what God is like. And let’s just look back over our journey so far through both old and new Testaments. We’re, we’re into this now, we’re well underway. And so, we’ve been able to see the formation of the children of Israel. We’ve been able to see their freedom from slavery and their wilderness journey. And we’ve also been able to move through some of the Gospels now and watch Jesus move about on earth and see what He has to say and what He does. And so, are we getting the picture thus far of a God that is disinterested and aloof and above it all and doesn’t really care? Like, that’s not the picture that the Bible is drawing. When God began to give the instructions to Moses about how this culture would be shaped, we saw him give very detailed plans for what would become, what would come to be known as the tabernacle. And this is where he would dwell with His people in the middle of their camp, like right in the middle of it all with them. That doesn’t seem dispassionate, that doesn’t seem aloof, that doesn’t seem arrogant or disinterested. So, we wonder things like does God have feelings? And this isn’t an attempt to like humanize God down to our level. But in some ways, we only have so much capacity as human beings to comprehend the un-comprehendible, the Most High God, the creator of everything. Things that we have discovered and that we know and things we have no idea about. But does the way that we live affect God? Does He get exasperated? Does He lament? In the Psalms we read today, but no, and this is God speaking, “but no, my people wouldn’t listen, Israel didn’t want Me around. So, I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas. Oh, that my people would listen to Me.” That’s, that’s the voice of God coming from the Psalms. That doesn’t sound disinterested or aloof or distant, because God is not distant. He is not indifferent. He’s never stopped caring for His people. The fact that we have the Scriptures as a gift to reveal God, so that we might reach toward God, lets us know that He wants to be known. This is what we call a relationship. And we’ve been in, like we, we’re made for relationship. People are made to be in relationship with each other and with God. We’re made for relationship, so we know if we’re in a relationship. And we probably know that, like indifference doesn’t work in a relationship. And yet, we blame God for indifference all the time, when we don’t get what we want. And usually, we’re the ones that are being indifferent. Or putting it back in God’s words, “Oh, that My people would listen to Me. So, let’s, let’s give that some thought today. And make that a point to meditate on. Our actions, our thoughts, our words and our deeds, affect the relationships that we’re in, including our relationship with God, because He has given Himself to us and for us. He has given His heart to us, He loves us. You can’t be in love and be completely indifferent and aloof. It doesn’t work and God is not being that way toward us, it’s usually the other way around.

Prayer:

And so, Father, Father, we repent for using You as a means to an end, as a way of accomplishing something or getting something for seeking Your favor and blessing. We want these things and need these things as Your children, but You already know that before we ask. So often we think You are indifferent towards us, when so often we are not listening to You. And we repent of that, and we repent of breaking relationship with You and then turning around and blaming You for breaking relationship with us. We can be stubborn and stiff-necked and unbelievably selfish toward You and we are sorry. We are growing up, we are learning. We thank You for Your patience and endurance in our lives toward us. Show us how to love You in a way that brings joy to Your heart. We ask, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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I wanted to take a few minutes now that I believe we are in the clear again, to just briefly talk about what we were experiencing last week. We had some technical difficulties last week that were really, really mystifying. Mystifying, in part because they were not affecting everybody and those are, like those of you who are in app development or any kind of development, web development, code development of any sort, and you have something that’s like deployed that’s out there in the world and you begin to have technical problems. Well, if it’s not affecting everybody, then those can be the worst things to find because you have to begin to divide and conquer. It is isolating down exactly what’s going on with what specific kind of phone or what specific kind of tablet or whatever. What’s going on here and like tracking that down, and then reproducing it can be really difficult. And so it was, but it will be two weeks ago tomorrow, tomorrow night. We began to get some emails, people getting logged out, couldn’t get back logged, logged back in. Things weren’t working in the login area. And then by Friday morning, we knew like they’re coming in. Like we’re getting all kinds of interaction here. There seems to be a problem. And so, then trying to determine whether this is affecting everybody are not, and understanding that it’s not affecting everybody. In fact, most everybody’s not being affected, but lots of people are. Yeah, we just started digging in and it wasn’t but a day before the entire development team was on this, literally tearing everything apart trying to find out what changed because nothing had changed. We hadn’t recently done any kind of an update. Nothing new was introduced. Only to find out after a week of this, that there wasn’t anything wrong and that we hadn’t like nothing in our code was out of place. We were being affected by a problem on down the line, with one of our technology providers and we weren’t the only ones being affected. So, I don’t want to make a long story tedious and longer. The net is that we’ve migrated our entire infrastructure three times in the last two weeks to completely different server architecture. But once we got away from the updates that were installed underneath us, everything started working perfect again. So, if you have had some troubles logging in and using the resources the app, like the Hotline or any of that stuff. Everything should be back to normal right now and working fine. Which leads me to simply say within the next couple of months here, we’ll probably be having a fireside chat. Like, I’ll probably take some time to actually sit down and tell you a whole story of really rethinking our our whole technology footprint underneath it all. And it’s not a new story to me, like this is a story that really kind of began when COVID began and has been being processed and reengineered and rethought for well since then. So, we’re way, way, well underway and we never stopped developing, we just started thinking about what the future looked like. But we are not quite at the place to have kind of a little bit more of a lengthy conversation about it, but we will before this year’s out. But I am getting on here today since enough people were affected that I think yeah, this, this, sometimes when we have these like little isolated incidents they do affect people and we fix them but they really affected a very small segment of people with a specific kind of phone or something like that. This affected kind of people of all across the board. Whether you are Android or Apple device or whatever. So, I’m getting on here to let you know, all should be well and thank you for your patience with us as we were really tearing everything possible apart, only to find out, it wasn’t us. So, thank you for your patience. Thank you for your prayers. Technology is a beautiful thing that we deeply depend on in this day and age. But then when it’s not functioning properly, we find tremendous amount of frustration in that and I’m one em. I find tremendous frustration in that. And so, I just wanted to let you know, all should be well and we’ll continue this discussion in the future.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey DAB family, this is Laura in Colorado, and I just had some things I wanted to call in and update you about. Over a year ago I had called and asked for prayer about a little baby that was abandoned in her NICU. And I know many of you prayed and we’re just so grateful for that. We were able to have her and love her every day for over a year. But last month, a decision was made to move her to a different home out of state. And that has just been really hard for our whole family. So, if you could just pray for comfort for especially my little kids, they’re just kind of confused and this is probably the biggest loss they’ve ever experienced to this point in their life. And if you could just, please continue to pray protection over this sweet baby and the, God’s will for her life would just be fulfilled, He would bring Godly people in and around her and we know she’s in His hands. As we’re in Holy Week, I just keep also thinking about the story where the, Jesus is at dinner and this woman comes in and breaks this expensive bottle of perfume and pours it all over Him. And you know, the disciples are upset about that. And He said that she did this to prepare His body for burial. And I’m not sure why it keeps striking this year, but it just keeps making me think that, so this whole time that He’s, you know, in trial and carrying His cross and hanging on His cross, his body has been, you know, dipped in this oil and He just has this scent. And I just keep imagining that, even in the middle of this suffering, He’s just keeps catching these whiffs of, these comforting and meaningful fragrances to guide Him through. And that was just meaningful to me this year for some reason.

Hi DABers, this is Shepherding Outside Seattle. I’m a pastor of a small church, like thousands of people around the world. And there are a lot of voices in the church that what you to do this or do that. Or listen to this or listen to that. And I would ask for your prayers for myself and others like me, that we would hear and tune into the voice of God. His word, help us to be faithful to His word against all odds. And proclaim His word, lift up Jesus in appearances and sensible and winsome way. I really value your prayers and ask for this prayer for wisdom for us, that we would see God, even when we don’t even realize that we see Him. That we would understand and see the things that we’re missing. That they would come into focus for us. That we would be God’s shepherds, loving the flock and directing them to Him only. So, I ask for this, in Jesus name. Amen.

Hello, my DAB Family, this is Unwavering from North Carolina. Many years ago, this prayer community prayed fervently for my daughter Jillian. And now, I’m coming to you all, asking for prayers for my daddy, Elton. I’m currently at his bedside as he suffered an emergency on Sunday night. Palm Sunday, so I’m asking for your prayers. He is 72 years old and really just a God-fearing man who was in great shape, ate healthfully and worked out. So, I just wanna lift up all of those of us whose lives have just been, just turned around suddenly, due to a family member falling ill or just life’s circumstances, just being lifey. So, Father God, we put the enemy on notice that he cannot win this battle with your sons and daughters, like my father Elton, and anyone else that is right now. For all of heaven backs up the word of God when it is prayed accurately, affectionately, and fervently by those in agreement. Therefore, with prayer, faith and belief we pull down to earth the healing, health and wholeness that rightfully belongs to your children. Jesus, Himself, bore their sickness and disease for every organ and every cell, every muscle, every tissue, every nerve, every vein. We claim them functioning and continuing to operate properly. Father God, we believe in the amazing testimony that Your sons and daughters who are falling ill, who are sick, Father God, that they would have a supernatural healing and a supernatural blessing. And they will tell the story of how good You were to them and all of us.

Shalom, Daily Audio Bible, this is Dwayne from Wisconsin. All praise and glory to our wonderful Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Today is April 7th, it is Good Friday. I would like to lift up Anna, in the Trenches. She called in Lord, with her last mend to be prayed for her family. Her husband just had some surgery on his leg. Lord, we ask for Your intervention that You would heal his leg but more importantly, that He would take the time to get the rest that he needs to recover from this. We ask that You be with Anna and her three children, as she home schools them. Her 8-year-old daughter, her 12-year-old son and her disabled 12-year-old, 18-year-old son. Lord, what a blessing that is, we want to lift that up to You for praise and glory. That Anna and her husband are taking on the responsibility to care for this 18-year-old disabled son. Lord, in Your eyes he is not disabled. We ask that You be with Anna during this time and all the times that she feels that she’s down and needs to be lifted up, Lord. That You will be there for her and give her the peace, understanding and strength she needs to get through this time. And that she will be able again to home school her children, what a blessing that is Lord, that she is willing to do that, along with her husband. And that she is feeling pain and fatigue, Lord. We ask that You come upon her, Lord, and give her that strength that she needs to know that You are there with her. And that when she lays her head down at night Lord, that she will get a good restful sleep. And be able in the morning, to see the light of You in her life and the life that she is to her children and a blessing she is to her children and her husband. Anna In the Trenches, we lift you up to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. God bless and Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Wednesday April 12, 2023 (NIV)

Joshua 5:1-7:15

5 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they[a] crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.[b]

A New Generation is Circumcised

2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”[c] 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at the Hill of the Foreskins.[d] 4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt.[e] 5 Now[f] all the men[g] who left were circumcised, but all the sons[h] born on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt were uncircumcised. 6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off.[i] For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them,[j] a land rich in[k] milk and honey. 7 He replaced them with their sons,[l] whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way. 8 When all the men[m] had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed. 9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away[n] the disgrace[o] of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal[p] even to this day.

10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month in the rift valley plains of Jericho.[q] 11 They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.[r] 12 The manna stopped appearing the day they ate[s] some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.[t] They ate from the produce of the land of Canaan that year.

Israel Conquers Jericho

13 When Joshua was near[u] Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword.[v] Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?”[w] 14 He answered,[x] “Truly I am the commander of the Lord’s army.[y] Now I have arrived!”[z] Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground[aa] and asked, “What does my master want to say to his servant?” 15 The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

6 Now Jericho was shut tightly[ab] because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.[ac] 2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you,[ad] along with its king and its warriors. 3 Have all the warriors march around the city one time;[ae] do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns[af] in front of the ark. On the seventh day march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns. 5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn,[ag] have the whole army give a loud battle cry.[ah] Then the city wall will collapse,[ai] and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”[aj]

6 So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and instructed them, “Pick up the ark of the covenant, and seven priests must carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.” 7 And he told[ak] the army,[al] “Move ahead[am] and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

8 When Joshua gave the army its orders,[an] the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the Lord moved ahead and blew the horns as the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed behind. 9 Armed troops marched ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark blowing rams’ horns. 10 Now Joshua had instructed the army,[ao] “Do not give a battle cry[ap] or raise your voices; say nothing[aq] until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’[ar] Then give the battle cry!”[as] 11 So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time.[at] Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.[au]

12 Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord.[av] 13 The seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord marched along blowing their horns. Armed troops marched ahead of them, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark of the Lord blowing rams’ horns. 14 They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.

15 On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn[aw] and marched around the city as before—only this time they marched around it seven times.[ax] 16 The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns, and Joshua told the army,[ay] “Give the battle cry,[az] for the Lord is handing the city over to you![ba] 17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord;[bb] only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies[bc] we sent. 18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for God. If you take any of it, then you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.[bd] 19 All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord.[be] They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

20 The rams’ horns sounded,[bf] and when the army[bg] heard the signal,[bh] they gave a loud battle cry.[bi] The wall collapsed,[bj] and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.[bk] 21 They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city,[bl] including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys. 22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house[bm] and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.”[bn] 23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside[bo] the Israelite camp. 24 But they burned[bp] the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house.[bq] 25 Yet Joshua spared[br] Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family,[bs] and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel[bt] to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 26 At that time Joshua made this solemn declaration:[bu] “The man who attempts to rebuild[bv] this city of Jericho[bw] will stand condemned before the Lord.[bx] He will lose his firstborn son when he lays its foundations and his youngest son when he erects its gates!”[by] 27 The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.[bz]

Achan Sins and is Punished

7 But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches.[ca] Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi,[cb] son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches.[cc] The Lord was furious with the Israelites.[cd]

2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai. 3 They returned and reported to Joshua,[ce] “Don’t send the whole army.[cf] About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai.[cg] Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.”[ch]

4 So about 3,000 men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai. 5 The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures[ci] and defeated them on the steep slope.[cj] The people’s[ck] courage melted away like water.[cl]

6 Joshua tore his clothes;[cm] he and the leaders[cn] of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening[co] and threw dirt on their heads.[cp] 7 Joshua prayed,[cq] “O, Sovereign Lord! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us? If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! 8 O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated[cr] before its enemies? 9 When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us[cs] from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”[ct]

10 The Lord responded[cu] to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down?[cv] 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment![cw] They have taken some of the riches;[cx] they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.[cy] 12 The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation.[cz] I will no longer be with you,[da] unless you destroy what has contaminated you.[db] 13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the Lord God of Israel has said, “You are contaminated,[dc] O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.”[dd] 14 In the morning you must approach in tribal order.[de] The tribe the Lord selects[df] must approach by clans. The clan the Lord selects must approach by families.[dg] The family the Lord selects must approach man by man.[dh] 15 The one caught with the riches[di] must be burned up[dj] along with all who belong to him, because he violated the Lord’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

Footnotes:

  1. Joshua 5:1 tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”
  2. Joshua 5:1 tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breath (or perhaps “spirit”) because of the sons of Israel.”
  3. Joshua 5:2 tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.
  4. Joshua 5:3 tn Or “Gibeath Haaraloth.” This name means “Hill of the Foreskins.” Many modern translations simply give the Hebrew name, although an explanatory note giving the meaning of the name is often included.sn The name given to the place, Hill of the Foreskins was an obvious reminder of this important event.
  5. Joshua 5:4 tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness in the way when they went out from Egypt.”
  6. Joshua 5:5 tn Or “indeed.”
  7. Joshua 5:5 tn Heb “people.”
  8. Joshua 5:5 tn Heb “all the people.”
  9. Joshua 5:6 tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”
  10. Joshua 5:6 tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”
  11. Joshua 5:6 tn Heb “flowing with.”sn The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (which would support the bees that produced honey).
  12. Joshua 5:7 tn Heb “their sons he raised up in their place.”
  13. Joshua 5:8 tn Heb “nation.”
  14. Joshua 5:9 tn Heb “rolled away.”
  15. Joshua 5:9 sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.
  16. Joshua 5:9 sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).
  17. Joshua 5:10 sn This is the area of the rift valley basin in the vicinity of Jericho (see the note at Josh 4:13).
  18. Joshua 5:11 tn The Hebrew text adds, “on this same day.” This is somewhat redundant in English and has not been translated.
  19. Joshua 5:12 tn Heb “the day after, when they ate.” The present translation assumes this means the day after the Passover, though it is possible it refers to the day after they began eating the land’s produce.
  20. Joshua 5:12 tn Heb “and the sons of Israel had no more manna.”
  21. Joshua 5:13 tn Heb “in.”
  22. Joshua 5:13 tn Heb “he lifted up his eyes and looked. And look, a man was standing in front of him, and his sword was drawn in his hand.” The verb הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) invites the reader to view the scene through Joshua’s eyes. By calling the stranger “a man,” the author reflects Joshua’s perspective. The text shortly reveals his true identity (vv. 14-15).
  23. Joshua 5:13 tn Heb “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
  24. Joshua 5:14 tc Heb “He said, “Neither.” An alternative reading is לוֹ (lo, “[He said] to him”; cf. NEB). This reading is supported by many Hebrew mss, as well as the LXX and Syriac versions. The traditional reading of the MT (לֹא, loʾ, “no, neither”) is probably the product of aural confusion (the two variant readings sound the same in Hebrew). Although followed by a number of modern translations (cf. NIV, NRSV), this reading is problematic, for the commander of the Lord’s army would hardly have declared himself neutral.
  25. Joshua 5:14 sn The Lord’s heavenly army, like an earthly army, has a commander who leads the troops. For the phrase שַׂר־צְבָא (sar tsevaʾ, “army commander”) in the human sphere, see among many other references Gen 21:22, 32; 26:26; Judg 4:2, 7; 1 Sam 12:9.
  26. Joshua 5:14 sn The commander’s appearance seems to be for Joshua’s encouragement. Joshua could now lead Israel into battle knowing that the Lord’s invisible army would ensure victory.
  27. Joshua 5:14 tn Heb “Joshua fell on his face to the ground and bowed down.”
  28. Joshua 6:1 tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 743 s.v. I סגר paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”
  29. Joshua 6:1 tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”
  30. Joshua 6:2 tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.
  31. Joshua 6:3 tn Heb “and go around the city, all [you] men of war, encircling the city one time.” The Hebrew verb וְסַבֹּתֶם (vesabbotem, “and go around”) is plural, being addressed to the whole army.
  32. Joshua 6:4 tn Heb “rams’ horns, trumpets.”
  33. Joshua 6:5 tn Heb “and it will be at the sounding of the horn, the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn.” The text of Josh 6:5 seems to be unduly repetitive, so for the sake of English style and readability, it is best to streamline the text here. The reading in the Hebrew looks like a conflation of variant readings, with the second (“when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn”) being an interpolation that assimilates the text to verse 20 (“when the army heard the sound of the horn”). Note that the words “when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn” do not appear in the LXX of verse 5.
  34. Joshua 6:5 tn Heb “all the people will shout with a loud shout.”
  35. Joshua 6:5 tn Heb “fall in its place.”
  36. Joshua 6:5 tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”
  37. Joshua 6:7 tn An alternative reading is “and they said.” In this case the subject is indefinite and the verb should be translated as passive, “[the army] was told.”
  38. Joshua 6:7 tn Heb “the people.”
  39. Joshua 6:7 tn Heb “pass by.”
  40. Joshua 6:8 tn Heb “when Joshua spoke to the people.”
  41. Joshua 6:10 tn Heb “the people.”
  42. Joshua 6:10 tn Or “the shout.”
  43. Joshua 6:10 tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”
  44. Joshua 6:10 tn Or “the shout.”
  45. Joshua 6:10 tn Or “the shout.”
  46. Joshua 6:11 tn Heb “and he made the ark of the Lord go around the city, encircling one time.”
  47. Joshua 6:11 tn Heb “and they entered the camp and spent the night in the camp.”
  48. Joshua 6:12 tn Heb “Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests picked up the ark of the Lord.”
  49. Joshua 6:15 tn Heb “On the seventh day they rose early, when the dawn ascended.”
  50. Joshua 6:15 tn Heb “and they went around the city according to this manner seven times, only on that day they went around the city seven times.”
  51. Joshua 6:16 tn Heb “the people.”
  52. Joshua 6:16 tn Or “the shout.”
  53. Joshua 6:16 tn Heb “for the Lord has given to you the city.” The verbal form is a perfect, probably indicating certitude here.
  54. Joshua 6:17 tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).
  55. Joshua 6:17 tn Heb “messengers.”
  56. Joshua 6:18 tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to God] so that you might not, as you are setting [it] apart, take some of what is set apart [to God] and turn the camp of Israel into what is set apart [to destruction by God] and bring trouble on it.”
  57. Joshua 6:19 tn Heb “it is holy to the Lord.”
  58. Joshua 6:20 tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.
  59. Joshua 6:20 tn Heb “the people.”
  60. Joshua 6:20 tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”
  61. Joshua 6:20 tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”
  62. Joshua 6:20 tn Heb “fell in its place.”
  63. Joshua 6:20 tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”
  64. Joshua 6:21 tn Heb “all which was in the city.”
  65. Joshua 6:22 tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”
  66. Joshua 6:22 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”
  67. Joshua 6:23 tn Or “placed them outside.”
  68. Joshua 6:24 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
  69. Joshua 6:24 tn Heb “the treasury of the house of the Lord.” Technically the Lord did not have a “house” yet, so perhaps this refers to the tabernacle using later terminology.
  70. Joshua 6:25 tn Heb “kept alive.”
  71. Joshua 6:25 tn Heb the house of her father.”
  72. Joshua 6:25 tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”
  73. Joshua 6:26 tn Normally the Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shavaʿ) has a causative sense (“make [someone] take an oath”; see Josh 2:17, 20), but here (see also Josh 23:7) no object is stated or implied. If Joshua is calling divine judgment down upon the one who attempts to rebuild Jericho, then “make a solemn appeal [to God as judge]” or “pronounce a curse” would be an appropriate translation. However, the tone seems stronger. Joshua appears to be announcing the certain punishment of the violator. 1 Kgs 16:34, which records the fulfillment of Joshua’s prediction, supports this. Casting Joshua in a prophetic role, it refers to Joshua’s statement as the “word of the Lord” spoken through Joshua.
  74. Joshua 6:26 tn Heb “rises up and builds.”
  75. Joshua 6:26 tc The LXX omits “Jericho.” It is probably a scribal addition.
  76. Joshua 6:26 tn The Hebrew phrase אָרוּר לִפְנֵי יְהוָה (ʾarur lifne yehvah, “cursed [i.e., condemned] before the Lord”) also occurs in 1 Sam 26:19.
  77. Joshua 6:26 tn Heb “With his firstborn he will lay its foundations and with his youngest he will erect its gates.” The Hebrew verb יַצִּיב (yatsiv, “he will erect”) is imperfect, not jussive, suggesting Joshua’s statement is a prediction, not an imprecation.
  78. Joshua 6:27 tn Heb “and the report about him was in all the land.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (ʾerets, “land”) may also be translated “earth.”
  79. Joshua 7:1 tn Heb “But the sons of Israel were unfaithful with unfaithfulness concerning what was set apart [to the Lord].”
  80. Joshua 7:1 tn 1 Chr 2:6 lists a “Zimri” (but no Zabdi) as one of the five sons of Zerah (cf. also Josh 7:17, 18).
  81. Joshua 7:1 tn Heb “took from what was set apart [to the Lord].”
  82. Joshua 7:1 tn Heb “the anger of the Lord burned against the sons of Israel.”sn This incident illustrates well the principle of corporate solidarity and corporate guilt. The sin of one man brought the Lord’s anger down upon the entire nation.
  83. Joshua 7:3 tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”
  84. Joshua 7:3 tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”
  85. Joshua 7:3 tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”
  86. Joshua 7:3 tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”
  87. Joshua 7:5 tn The meaning and correct translation of the Hebrew word שְׁבָרִים (shevarim) is uncertain. The translation “fissures” is based on usage of the plural form of the noun in Ps 60:4 HT (60:2 ET), where it appears to refer to cracks in the earth caused by an earthquake. Perhaps deep ravines or gorges are in view, or the word is a proper noun (“all the way to Shebarim”).
  88. Joshua 7:5 sn The precise geographical location of the Israelite defeat at this “steep slope” is uncertain.
  89. Joshua 7:5 tn Or “army’s.”
  90. Joshua 7:5 tn Heb “and the heart of the people melted and became water.”
  91. Joshua 7:6 sn Tearing one’s clothes was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Gen 37:34; 44:13).
  92. Joshua 7:6 tn Or “elders.”
  93. Joshua 7:6 tn Heb “and fell on his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel.”
  94. Joshua 7:6 sn Throwing dirt on one’s head was an outward expression of extreme sorrow (see Lam 2:10; Ezek 27:30).
  95. Joshua 7:7 tn Heb “said.”
  96. Joshua 7:8 tn Heb “turned [the] back.”
  97. Joshua 7:9 tn Heb “and cut off our name.”
  98. Joshua 7:9 tn Heb “What will you do for your great name?”
  99. Joshua 7:10 tn Heb “said.”
  100. Joshua 7:10 tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”
  101. Joshua 7:11 tn Heb “They have violated my covenant which I commanded them.”
  102. Joshua 7:11 tn Heb “what was set apart [to the Lord].”
  103. Joshua 7:11 tn Heb “and also they have stolen, and also they have lied, and also they have placed [them] among their items.”
  104. Joshua 7:12 tn Heb “they turn [the] back before their enemies because they are set apart [to destruction by the Lord].”
  105. Joshua 7:12 tn The second person pronoun is plural in Hebrew, indicating these words are addressed to the entire nation.
  106. Joshua 7:12 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”
  107. Joshua 7:13 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”
  108. Joshua 7:13 tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”
  109. Joshua 7:14 tn Heb “by your tribes.”
  110. Joshua 7:14 tn Heb “takes forcefully, seizes.”
  111. Joshua 7:14 tn Heb “houses.”
  112. Joshua 7:14 tn Heb “by men.”
  113. Joshua 7:15 tn Heb “with what was set apart [to the Lord].”
  114. Joshua 7:15 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
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Luke 15

The Parable of the Lost Sheep and Coin

15 Now all the tax collectors[a] and sinners were coming[b] to hear him. 2 But[c] the Pharisees[d] and the experts in the law[e] were complaining,[f] “This man welcomes[g] sinners and eats with them.”

3 So[h] Jesus[i] told them[j] this parable:[k] 4 “Which one[l] of you, if he has a hundred[m] sheep and loses one of them, would not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture[n] and go look for[o] the one that is lost until he finds it?[p] 5 Then[q] when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 Returning[r] home, he calls together[s] his[t] friends and neighbors, telling them, ‘Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.’ 7 I tell you, in the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner[u] who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people[v] who have no need to repent.[w]

8 “Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins[x] and loses[y] one of them,[z] does not light a lamp, sweep[aa] the house, and search thoroughly until she finds it? 9 Then[ab] when she has found it, she calls together her[ac] friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice[ad] with me, for I have found the coin[ae] that I had lost.’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels[af] over one sinner who repents.”

The Parable of the Compassionate Father

11 Then[ag] Jesus[ah] said, “A man had two sons. 12 The[ai] younger of them said to his[aj] father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate[ak] that will belong[al] to me.’ So[am] he divided his[an] assets between them.[ao] 13 After[ap] a few days,[aq] the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered[ar] his wealth[as] with a wild lifestyle. 14 Then[at] after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and worked for[au] one of the citizens of that country, who[av] sent him to his fields to feed pigs.[aw] 16 He[ax] was longing to eat[ay] the carob pods[az] the pigs were eating, but[ba] no one gave him anything. 17 But when he came to his senses[bb] he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food[bc] enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned[bd] against heaven[be] and against[bf] you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me[bg] like one of your hired workers.”’ 20 So[bh] he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home[bi] his father saw him, and his heart went out to him;[bj] he ran and hugged[bk] his son[bl] and kissed him. 21 Then[bm] his son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven[bn] and against you; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’[bo] 22 But the father said to his slaves,[bp] ‘Hurry! Bring the best robe,[bq] and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger[br] and sandals[bs] on his feet! 23 Bring[bt] the fattened calf[bu] and kill it! Let us eat[bv] and celebrate, 24 because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again—he was lost and is found!’[bw] So[bx] they began to celebrate.

25 “Now his older son was in the field. As[by] he came and approached the house, he heard music[bz] and dancing. 26 So[ca] he called one of the slaves[cb] and asked what was happening. 27 The slave replied,[cc] ‘Your brother has returned, and your father has killed the fattened calf[cd] because he got his son[ce] back safe and sound.’ 28 But the older son[cf] became angry[cg] and refused[ch] to go in. His father came out and appealed to him, 29 but he answered[ci] his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave[cj] for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet[ck] you never gave me even a goat[cl] so that I could celebrate with my friends! 30 But when this son of yours[cm] came back, who has devoured[cn] your assets with prostitutes,[co] you killed the fattened calf[cp] for him!’ 31 Then[cq] the father[cr] said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and everything that belongs to me is yours. 32 It was appropriate[cs] to celebrate and be glad, for your brother[ct] was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found.’”[cu]

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 15:1 sn See the note on tax collectors in 3:12.
  2. Luke 15:1 tn Grk “were drawing near.”
  3. Luke 15:2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
  4. Luke 15:2 sn See the note on Pharisees in 5:17.
  5. Luke 15:2 tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.
  6. Luke 15:2 tn Or “grumbling”; Grk “were complaining, saying.” The participle λέγοντες (legontes) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
  7. Luke 15:2 tn Or “accepts,” “receives.” This is not the first time this issue has been raised: Luke 5:27-32; 7:37-50.
  8. Luke 15:3 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate that Jesus’ telling of the parable is in response to the complaints of the Pharisees and experts in the law.
  9. Luke 15:3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  10. Luke 15:3 sn Them means at the minimum the parable is for the leadership, but probably also for those people Jesus accepted, but the leaders regarded as outcasts.
  11. Luke 15:3 tn Grk “parable, saying.” The participle λέγων (legōn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.
  12. Luke 15:4 tn Grk “What man.” The Greek word ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos) is used here in a somewhat generic sense.
  13. Luke 15:4 sn This individual with a hundred sheep is a shepherd of modest means, as flocks often had up to two hundred head of sheep.
  14. Luke 15:4 tn Or “desert,” but here such a translation might suggest neglect of the 99 sheep left behind.
  15. Luke 15:4 tn Grk “go after,” but in contemporary English the idiom “to look for” is used to express this.
  16. Luke 15:4 sn Until he finds it. The parable pictures God’s pursuit of the sinner. On the image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, see John 10:1-18.
  17. Luke 15:5 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  18. Luke 15:6 tn Grk “And coming into his…” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  19. Luke 15:6 sn A touch of drama may be present, as the term calls together can mean a formal celebration (1 Kgs 1:9-10).
  20. Luke 15:6 tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215). It occurs before “neighbors” as well (“his friends and his neighbors”) but has not been translated the second time because of English style.
  21. Luke 15:7 sn There will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. The pursuit of the sinner is a priority in spite of the presence of others who are doing well (see also Luke 5:32; 19:10). The theme of repentance, a major Lukan theme, is again emphasized.
  22. Luke 15:7 tn Here δικαίοις (dikaiois) is an adjective functioning substantivally and has been translated “righteous people.”
  23. Luke 15:7 tn Or “who do not need to repent”; Grk “who do not have need of repentance.”
  24. Luke 15:8 sn This silver coin is a drachma, equal to a denarius, that is, a day’s pay for the average laborer.
  25. Luke 15:8 tn Grk “What woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses.” The initial participle ἔχουσα (echousa) has been translated as a finite verb parallel to ἀπολέσῃ (apolesē) in the conditional clause to improve the English style.
  26. Luke 15:8 tn Grk “one coin.”
  27. Luke 15:8 tn Grk “and sweep,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
  28. Luke 15:9 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  29. Luke 15:9 tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
  30. Luke 15:9 sn Rejoice. Besides the theme of pursuing the lost, the other theme of the parable is the joy of finding them.
  31. Luke 15:9 tn Grk “drachma.”
  32. Luke 15:10 sn The whole of heaven is said to rejoice. Joy in the presence of God’s angels is a way of referring to God’s joy as well without having to name him explicitly. Contemporary Judaism tended to refer to God indirectly where possible out of reverence or respect for the divine name.
  33. Luke 15:11 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  34. Luke 15:11 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  35. Luke 15:12 tn Grk “And the.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  36. Luke 15:12 tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
  37. Luke 15:12 tn L&N 57.19 notes that in nonbiblical contexts in which the word οὐσία (ousia) occurs, it refers to considerable possessions or wealth, thus “estate.”
  38. Luke 15:12 tn L&N 57.3, “to belong to or come to belong to, with the possible implication of by right or by inheritance.”
  39. Luke 15:12 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the father’s response to the younger son’s request.
  40. Luke 15:12 tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
  41. Luke 15:12 sn He divided his assets between them. There was advice against doing this in the OT Apocrypha (Sir 33:20). The younger son would get half of what the older son received (Deut 21:17).
  42. Luke 15:13 tn Grk “And after.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  43. Luke 15:13 tn Grk “after not many days.”
  44. Luke 15:13 tn Or “wasted.” This verb is graphic; it means to scatter (L&N 57.151).
  45. Luke 15:13 tn Or “estate” (the same word has been translated “estate” in v. 12).
  46. Luke 15:14 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the sequence of events in the parable. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style generally does not.
  47. Luke 15:15 tn Grk “joined himself to” (in this case an idiom for beginning to work for someone).
  48. Luke 15:15 tn Grk “and he.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) and the personal pronoun have been translated by a relative pronoun to improve the English style.
  49. Luke 15:15 sn To a Jew, being sent to the field to feed pigs would be an insult, since pigs were considered unclean animals (Lev 11:7).
  50. Luke 15:16 tn Grk “And he.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  51. Luke 15:16 tn Or “would gladly have eaten”; Grk “was longing to be filled with.”
  52. Luke 15:16 tn This term refers to the edible pods from a carob tree (BDAG 540 s.v. κεράτιον). They were bean-like in nature and were commonly used for fattening pigs, although they were also used for food by poor people (L&N 3.46).
  53. Luke 15:16 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.
  54. Luke 15:17 tn Grk “came to himself” (an idiom).
  55. Luke 15:17 tn Grk “bread,” but used figuratively for food of any kind (L&N 5.1).
  56. Luke 15:18 sn In the confession “I have sinned” there is a recognition of wrong that pictures the penitent coming home and “being found.”
  57. Luke 15:18 sn The phrase against heaven is a circumlocution for God.
  58. Luke 15:18 tn According to BDAG 342 s.v. ἐνωπιον 4.a, “in relation to ἁμαρτάνειν ἐ. τινος sin against someone Lk 15:18, 21 (cp. Jdth 5:17; 1 Km 7:6; 20:1).”
  59. Luke 15:19 tn Or “make me.” Here is a sign of total humility.
  60. Luke 15:20 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the son’s decision to return home. Greek style often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” but English style generally does not.
  61. Luke 15:20 tn Grk “a long way off from [home].” The word “home” is implied (L&N 85.16).
  62. Luke 15:20 tn Or “felt great affection for him,” “felt great pity for him.”sn The major figure of the parable, the forgiving father, represents God the Father and his compassionate response. God is ready with open arms to welcome the sinner who comes back to him.
  63. Luke 15:20 tn Grk “he fell on his neck,” an idiom for showing special affection for someone by throwing one’s arms around them. The picture is of the father hanging on the son’s neck in welcome.
  64. Luke 15:20 tn Grk “him”; the referent (the son) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  65. Luke 15:21 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  66. Luke 15:21 sn The phrase against heaven is a circumlocution for God. 1st century Judaism tended to minimize use of the divine name out of reverence.
  67. Luke 15:21 sn The younger son launches into his confession just as he had planned. See vv. 18-19.
  68. Luke 15:22 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:2.
  69. Luke 15:22 sn With the instructions Hurry! Bring the best robe, there is a total acceptance of the younger son back into the home.
  70. Luke 15:22 tn Grk “hand,” but χείρ (cheir) can refer to either the whole hand or any relevant part of it (L&N 8.30).
  71. Luke 15:22 sn The need for sandals underlines the younger son’s previous destitution, because he was barefoot.
  72. Luke 15:23 tn Grk “And bring.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
  73. Luke 15:23 tn Or “the prize calf” (L&N 65.8). See also L&N 44.2, “grain-fattened.” Such a calf was usually reserved for religious celebrations.
  74. Luke 15:23 tn The participle φαγόντες (phagontes) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
  75. Luke 15:24 sn This statement links the parable to the theme of 15:6, 9.
  76. Luke 15:24 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the father’s remarks in the preceding verses.
  77. Luke 15:25 tn Grk “And as.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  78. Luke 15:25 sn This would have been primarily instrumental music, but might include singing as well.
  79. Luke 15:26 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the older son hearing the noise of the celebration in progress.
  80. Luke 15:26 tn The Greek term here, παῖς (pais), describes a slave, possibly a household servant regarded with some affection (L&N 87.77).
  81. Luke 15:27 tn Grk “And he said to him.” Here δέ (de) has not been translated. The rest of the phrase has been simplified to “the slave replied,” with the referent (the slave) specified in the translation for clarity.
  82. Luke 15:27 tn See note on the phrase “fattened calf” in v. 23.
  83. Luke 15:27 tn Grk “him”; the referent (the younger son) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  84. Luke 15:28 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the older son, v. 25) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  85. Luke 15:28 tn The aorist verb ὠργίσθη (ōrgisthē) has been translated as an ingressive aorist, reflecting entry into a state or condition.
  86. Luke 15:28 sn Ironically the attitude of the older son has left him outside and without joy.
  87. Luke 15:29 tn Grk “but answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “but he answered.”
  88. Luke 15:29 tn Or simply, “have served,” but in the emotional context of the older son’s outburst the translation given is closer to the point.
  89. Luke 15:29 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “yet” to bring out the contrast indicated by the context.
  90. Luke 15:29 sn You never gave me even a goat. The older son’s complaint was that the generous treatment of the younger son was not fair: “I can’t get even a little celebration with a basic food staple like a goat!”
  91. Luke 15:30 sn Note the younger son is not “my brother” but this son of yours (an expression with a distinctly pejorative nuance).
  92. Luke 15:30 sn This is another graphic description. The younger son’s consumption had been like a glutton. He had both figuratively and literally devoured the assets which were given to him.
  93. Luke 15:30 sn The charge concerning the prostitutes is unproven, but essentially the older brother accuses the father of committing an injustice by rewarding his younger son’s unrighteous behavior.
  94. Luke 15:30 sn See note on the phrase “fattened calf” in v. 23.
  95. Luke 15:31 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events in the parable.
  96. Luke 15:31 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the father) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  97. Luke 15:32 tn Or “necessary.”
  98. Luke 15:32 sn By referring to him as your brother, the father reminded the older brother that the younger brother was part of the family.
  99. Luke 15:32 sn The theme he was lost and is found is repeated from v. 24. The conclusion is open-ended. The reader is left to ponder with the older son (who pictures the scribes and Pharisees) what the response will be. The parable does not reveal the ultimate response of the older brother. Jesus argued that sinners should be pursued and received back warmly when they returned.
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Psalm 81

Psalm 81[a]

For the music director, according to the gittith style;[b] by Asaph.

81 Shout for joy to God, our source of strength!
Shout out to the God of Jacob!
2 Sing[c] a song and play the tambourine,
the pleasant-sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument.
3 Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon,[d]
and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.[e]
4 For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel;[f]
it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.
5 He decreed it as a regulation in Joseph,
when he attacked the land of Egypt.[g]
I heard a voice I did not recognize.[h]
6 It said:[i] “I removed the burden from his shoulder;
his hands were released from holding the basket.[j]
7 In your distress you called out and I rescued you.
I answered you from a dark thundercloud.[k]
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.[l] (Selah)
8 I said,[m] ‘Listen, my people!
I will warn[n] you.
O Israel, if only you would obey me![o]
9 There must be[p] no other[q] god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord, your God,
the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.’
11 But my people did not obey me;[r]
Israel did not submit to me.[s]
12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires;[t]
they did what seemed right to them.[u]
13 If only my people would obey me![v]
If only Israel would keep my commands![w]
14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
and attack[x] their adversaries.”
15 (May those who hate the Lord[y] cower in fear[z] before him.
May they be permanently humiliated.)[aa]
16 “I would feed Israel the best wheat,[ab]
and would satisfy your appetite[ac] with honey from the rocky cliffs.”[ad]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 81:1 sn Psalm 81. The psalmist calls God’s people to assemble for a festival and then proclaims God’s message to them. The divine speech (vv. 6-16) recalls how God delivered the people from Egypt, reminds Israel of their rebellious past, expresses God’s desire for his people to obey him, and promises divine protection in exchange for obedience.
  2. Psalm 81:1 tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew term הַגִּתִּית (haggittit) is uncertain; it probably refers to a musical style or instrument. See the superscription to Ps 8.
  3. Psalm 81:2 tn Heb “lift up.”
  4. Psalm 81:3 tn Heb “at the new moon.”sn New moon festivals were a monthly ritual in Israel (see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 469-70). In this context the New Moon festival of the seventh month, when the Feast of Tabernacles was celebrated (note the reference to a “festival” in the next line), may be in view.
  5. Psalm 81:3 tn Heb “at the full moon on the day of our festival.” The Hebrew word כֶּסֶה (keseh) is an alternate spelling of כֶּסֶא (keseʾ, “full moon”).sn The festival in view is probably the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths), which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month when the moon was full. See Lev 23:34; Num 29:12.
  6. Psalm 81:4 tn Heb “because a statute for Israel [is] it.”
  7. Psalm 81:5 tn Heb “in his going out against the land of Egypt.” This apparently refers to the general time period of Israel’s exodus from Egypt. The LXX reads, “from Egypt,” in which case “Joseph” (see the preceding line) would be the subject of the verb, “when he [Joseph = Israel] left Egypt.”
  8. Psalm 81:5 tn Heb “a lip I did not know, I heard.” Here the term “lip” probably stands for speech or a voice. Apparently the psalmist speaks here and refers to God’s voice, whose speech is recorded in the following verses.
  9. Psalm 81:6 tn The words “It said” are not included in the Hebrew text. They are supplied in the translation for clarification.
  10. Psalm 81:6 sn I removed the burden. The Lord speaks metaphorically of how he delivered his people from Egyptian bondage. The reference to a basket/burden probably alludes to the hard labor of the Israelites in Egypt, where they had to carry loads of bricks (see Exod 1:14).
  11. Psalm 81:7 tn Heb “I answered you in the hidden place of thunder.” This may allude to God’s self-revelation at Mount Sinai, where he appeared in a dark cloud accompanied by thunder (see Exod 19:16).
  12. Psalm 81:7 sn The name Meribah means “strife.” Two separate but similar incidents at the place called Meribah are recorded in the Pentateuch (Exod 17:1-7; Num 20:1-13). In both cases the Israelites complained about lack of water and the Lord miraculously provided for them.
  13. Psalm 81:8 tn The words “I said” are supplied in the translation for clarification. Verses 8-10 appear to recall what the Lord commanded the generation of Israelites that experienced the events described in v. 7. Note the statement in v. 11, “my people did not listen to me.”
  14. Psalm 81:8 tn Or perhaps “command.”
  15. Psalm 81:8 tn The Hebrew particle אִם (ʾim, “if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (GKC 321 §109.b). Note that the apodosis (the “then” clause of the conditional sentence) is suppressed.
  16. Psalm 81:9 tn The imperfect verbal forms in v. 9 have a modal function, expressing what is obligatory.
  17. Psalm 81:9 tn Heb “different”; “illicit.”
  18. Psalm 81:11 tn Heb “did not listen to my voice.”
  19. Psalm 81:11 tn The Hebrew expression אָבָה לִי (ʾavah li) means “submit to me” (see Deut 13:8).
  20. Psalm 81:12 tn Heb “and I sent him away in the stubbornness of their heart.”
  21. Psalm 81:12 tn Heb “they walked in their counsel.” The prefixed verbal form is either preterite (“walked”) or a customary imperfect (“were walking”).
  22. Psalm 81:13 tn Heb “if only my people were listening to me.” The Hebrew particle לוּ (lu, “if not”) introduces a purely hypothetical or contrary to fact condition (see 2 Sam 18:12).
  23. Psalm 81:13 tn Heb “[and if only] Israel would walk in my ways.”
  24. Psalm 81:14 tn Heb “turn my hand against.” The idiom “turn the hand against” has the nuance of “strike with the hand, attack” (see Isa 1:25; Ezek 38:12; Amos 1:8; Zech 13:7).
  25. Psalm 81:15 tn “Those who hate the Lord” are also mentioned in 2 Chr 19:2 and Ps 139:21.
  26. Psalm 81:15 tn See Deut 33:29; Ps 66:3 for other uses of the verb כָּחַשׁ (kakhash) in the sense “cower in fear.” In Ps 18:44 the verb seems to carry the nuance “to be weak; to be powerless” (see also Ps 109:24). The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, parallel to the jussive form in the next line.
  27. Psalm 81:15 tc Heb “and may their time be forever.” The Hebrew term עִתָּם (ʿittam, “their time”) must refer here to the “time” of the demise and humiliation of those who hate the Lord. Some propose an emendation to בַּעֲתָתָם (baʿatatam) or בִּעֻתָם (biʿutam; “their terror”; i.e., “may their terror last forever”), but the omission of bet (ב) in the present Hebrew text is difficult to explain, making the proposed emendation unlikely.tn The verb form at the beginning of the line is jussive, indicating that this is a prayer. The translation assumes that v. 15 is a parenthetical “curse” offered by the psalmist. Having heard the reference to Israel’s enemies (v. 14), the psalmist inserts this prayer, reminding the Lord that they are God’s enemies as well.
  28. Psalm 81:16 tn Heb “and he fed him from the best of the wheat.” The Hebrew text has a third person form of the preterite with a vav (ו) consecutive attached. However, it is preferable, in light of the use of the first person in v. 14 and in the next line, to emend the verb to a first person form and understand the vav as conjunctive, continuing the apodosis of the conditional sentence of vv. 13-14. The third masculine singular pronominal suffix refers to Israel, as in v. 6.sn I would feed. After the parenthetical “curse” in v. 15, the Lord’s speech continues here.
  29. Psalm 81:16 tn Heb “you.” The second person singular pronominal suffix refers to Israel, as in vv. 7-10.
  30. Psalm 81:16 sn The language in this verse, particularly the references to wheat and honey, is reminiscent of Deut 32:13-14.
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Proverbs 13:1

13 A wise son accepts his father’s discipline,[a]
but a scoffer[b] has never listened to[c] rebuke.

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 13:1 tc The MT reads “a wise son, discipline of a father.” Instead of מוּסָר (musar, “discipline”), G. R. Driver suggested reading this word as מְיֻסַּר (meyussar, “allows himself to be disciplined”); see his “Hebrew Notes on Prophets and Proverbs,” JTS 41 (1940): 174. A few Medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the LXX, and the Syriac read יִשְׁמַע (yishmaʿ) “a wise son listens to/obeys his father.” The translation, “accepts…discipline,” reflects the notion intended by either.
  2. Proverbs 13:1 sn The “scoffer” is the worst kind of fool. He has no respect for authority, reviles worship of God, and is unteachable because he thinks he knows it all. The change to a stronger word in the second colon—“rebuke” (גָּעַר, gaʿar)—shows that he does not respond to instruction on any level. Cf. NLT “a young mocker,” taking this to refer to the opposite of the “wise son” in the first colon.
  3. Proverbs 13:1 tn Heb “has not listened.” The perfect verb has been chosen to emphasize the past pattern of the scoffer.
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04/11/2023 DAB Transcript

Joshua 3:1-4:24, Luke 14:7-35, Psalms 80:1-19, Proverbs 12:27-28

Today is the 11th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian and it’s great to be here with you today and every day as we gather once again around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. Our next step leads us into relatively new territory. We finished the Torah, the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy - yesterday and then we began the book of Joshua, a new era taking shape. Moses has died and Joshua is now the leader of the children of Israel. And as we began the book of Joshua the preparations were getting underway to cross the Jordan River. And we’ve been working toward this. We were talking about this yesterday. We have been working towards this Jordan River and crossing it and getting into this promised land all the way back since the book of Genesis. Today we will cross the Jordan River. And, so, let’s dive in. We’re reading from the New Living Translation this week. Joshua chapters 3 and 4 today.

Commentary:

Okay. So, a pretty big day today in the Bible in the book of Joshua. Like we said when we started out a few minutes ago we’ve been working toward this Jordan River and the promised land for a long time now and the journey to get there through the wilderness. We learned a lot about the wilderness as we learned about the children of Israel and their wandering in the wilderness and applying that to our own lives. But we’ve been moving toward something and that is the promised land, and we’ve been moving toward this for a long time. And we’re there. And that’s pretty big. We’re there. We’re in the promised land with the children of Israel at this point. And, so, the Lord told Joshua that He would make him a great leader in the eyes of all the people and that they would know that God was with him just as He was with Moses. And then the Levites were instructed to carry the ark of the covenant into the Jordan River and when they did the water stopped up just like the Red Sea. It dried up so that people could cross over on dry ground. Now the Jordan River is very different than the Red Sea. The Jordan River is not that big of a river, but in high water season in the rainy season definitely it’s overflowing its banks and it’s big enough to…to…to need a way across, and God provided that way with…with dry land to cross. Can you just imagine this? I mean the dry ground part is his miraculous but can you just imagine walking across the Jordan River and setting foot for the first time in the land of promise. This thing has taken centuries to come to fruition and you are stepping foot into the promised land. It's…It’s a pretty dramatic scene. The promised land is no longer this mythic land. They’re standing in their land of promise. They can reach down and grab a handful of it. It’s tangible to them now. And then Joshua instructed different leaders, one from each tribe to go back into the dry riverbed that was the Jordan River and to each of them gather a large stone and carry that stone back into the camp. And then the people created a memorial with those stones, and a similar memorial was placed in the dry riverbed of the Jordan River before the waters covered it once again. And I quote from Joshua at this point. “In the future your children will ask, what did these stones mean? Then you can tell them this is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground. For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and He kept it dry until you were all across just as He did at the Red Sea when He dried it up until we had all crossed over. He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.” In other words, the memorial stones were placed as a memorial so they would not forget, so that they would remember. And this is a good time to talk about remembering. Something…something that makes us human is our ability to remember. And as we’ve moved through the Bible we’ve seen that remembering is a very very important thing. Both Old and New Testament. Like if we’re in the New Testament and we’re with Jesus and we’re at the Last Supper and He’s passing the cup and breaking the bread what does he tell them to do? Remember. In some cases, in Scripture the people are told to write things above their door posts, and they’re told to remind each other, to have it on their lips and on their tongues and in their conversation, to remind each other where they came from, talking about it, remembering. Even the fact that the Bible exists shows us God’s intention about us remembering because the Bible leads us to remember every day who God is, who we are, where this is all going. And, so, as we see these memorial stones set up at this spot where they cross the Jordan River into the promised land it was so they would remember it in the future and tell future generations what God had done. And people would need to be able to have this memorial. They would need to remember what happened there because we’ll see that they have every opportunity to forget. And they do as we do. And, so, let’s think about it. Let’s take a step back together from this and just imagine our lives for a second, looking back kind of remembering. What were those moments where the memorial stones are? Where do they sit in your life? What would memorial stones even look like in our lives? Maybe…maybe writing it down is a memorial. One of the things we’ve said over the years here is, if God speaks through His word to you, if God speaks, take notes. When we write things down or journal things down, we are memorializing those things. And when we have these memorials or these pages in our lives, these moments that take us back to a place where God was there, and He rescued us and He led us forward. We need to not forget these things because we’re moving at warp speed, and we can hardly keep track of what we gotta get done today. And, so, it’s so easy to be moving…moving through life and all the sudden we didn’t see this fog was drifting in and all the sudden we’re in this gray mist and we don’t know what’s going on anymore and we feel lost and disoriented. If we can return to these places where the memorial stones are set up in our lives, return even to the pages of our journals to remind ourselves who God is, who we are, and that this is going somewhere, we’re going somewhere together, it can be a game changer. And as we write these things down over years, we’re writing down the story, our story with God that can be revealed to future generations of our families, that can be preserved and kept and maybe cracked open a century and a half from now telling the story of God’s faithfulness in our lives. When we retell ourselves the story. we are reminding ourselves of who we are, chosen children of the most-high God. And, so, something for us to consider.

Some of us are journalers and some of us are not, but remembering, however we do that is important to our own stories. And, so, journaling…obviously everybody knows what we’re talking about here. You can grab a pen and a piece of paper and write some things down or type them up or whatever. Over the years we’ve crafted even resources for this. We have the Daily Audio Bible journal that is available in the Daily Audio Bible shop and that was developed for this, exactly this. That’s something that’s tangible that we can kinda carry around with us that can fit in a backpack and fit in a bag that we can kinda just have available so that we write it down and don’t forget. I myself have told the story over the years, it  was the year my mom died, I found these pencils and I fell in love with them and I reacquainted myself with writing in my own hand, and I just found sharpening a pencil, just the whole tactile thing, sharpening the pencil having a good pencil to write with and writing things down has just become part of a rhythm. And, so, those resources, those pencils, the journal, everything are in the Daily Audio Bible Shop but there’s no magic in the Daily Audio Bible Shop. The Daily Audio Bible journal isn’t going to write something or have something written on it that’s gonna all the sudden become magic. It’s just a resource. We developed this resource because this is so important, so important. Man if you journal your way through the year this year, the things that are happening in your life, the things that the Bible is speaking to you and you reach the end of the year and maybe that…that week between Christmas and New Year’s, that kind of weird week of the year where everything is being reset to take a moment and just go back through your journal over the year, remembering, remembering God’s faithfulness, remembering the challenges you that you faced and the joys that you experienced. Remembering is throughout the Bible and we witnessed this today so that we won’t forge.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into that, into our remembering, into us being able to see tangibly the story of Your faithfulness in our lives and the way that You have protected us, the ways that You have guided and directed us. Lead us to the ways that will work in our story, that we might have memorial stones in our lives at the junctures that we need to remember. Come Holy Spirit into this we pray in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

Community Prayer and Praise:

Hey DAB family this is your sister Ashley from California, and I called in a few weeks ago just letting…updating you guys letting you know that I was struggling. And I’ve been digging in and asking God to reveal to me and just to help me through the season that I’m in with my son being sick and just trying to walk through this…the compounded grief that I’m going through. And He spoke to me, and He told me, hope. Because God is my helper and will never leave me or forsake me. I’m going to get through this so help me God. The miracle is that He continues to sustain me. And as we humbly seek Him and cry out to Him, we become more aware of His presence. And not only will we make it through, but God will help us grow through this. So DAB family I…like I need to preach myself I'm…I’m trying…I’m just trying to pass this on to you guys. So, if you’re walking through a season of grief and healing and all the…all the survival mode kind of thing I want to encourage you, hold on. Press into the lord, be honest and just lift your hands up and say lord Your kingdom come Your will be done. And I want to encourage you, the only way through is…the only way through to grow closer to the lord is to not be grateful for the situation but be grateful in it and to praise Him and to rejoice and to say hallelujah. OK. I don’t know if that makes any sense to you family but I love you and I am praying alongside with you guys and thank you for lifting us up and your prayers. Bye.

This is little Penguin from South Africa. I want to thank Brian and his family for bringing me back to Jesus. I would like prayers for three things. Number one my country South Africa. Things are very dire here. It’s going backwards. A lot of people are fleeing our country that are qualified to do the jobs. The second thing I want to ask is to pray for…is prayer for my boyfriend. He’s got a lot of emotional issues. He was abused by his father and friends in __ where he lived with his father and his father’s blaming him for everything. And then the relationship between me and my boyfriend. I'm…I’m divorced with two children and his fathers against our relationship because of things he did wrong. He also had a relationship with a woman with two children and he’s thinking that I’m just of these of his after his son’s money. So, please pray for me. Thank you Brian and your family for bringing the Bible and Jesus back into my life.

Hi, I’m calling anonymously today out of respect for the person I’m asking a prayer for. So, just yesterday a colleague of mine messaged me to say that he was sorry he had not shown up to a meeting. He had gotten news from his doctor that his life expectancy was going to be short. And that was really all the news that I got. He asked me not to say anything because he hasn’t informed his family yet. And I just want to ask you to pray please. I know for a fact that God has the ability to heal this man. I just don’t know if it’s His will. And, so, I just want to ask you that you would pray with me that if God would extend this man’s life and allow his…his family to watch him grow old. Lord he’s got children, he's…he’s got a wife, he’s got siblings, he’s got a mother, there’s so many people friends that love him and want to see him live if God would just allow it. Would you pray for that? Thank you. I appreciate this community. I love you so much and I pray for you guys daily. Bye-bye.

Hello DAB siblings this is God’s chosen again from Georgia. I just want to say prayer over all DAB members. Abba father you are the creator of all things so we thank you throughout this first quarter of the year and as we continue in the second quarter of the year, Lord God we pray that your mighty hand will continue to lead and guide us. Thank you Lord for leading us as we continue to wait on you. Help us Lord to continue to walk in victory. Grant us healing, restoration, reconciliation and redemption through your grace and your mercy. Grant us your shalom peace. Give us favor and renewed strength to be able face each new day. When we are distracted or when our minds wander, help us Lord to channel our gaze and focus back to Jesus Christ who is our Lord and our Savior. We thank you for the beauty of the earth. We thank you for all that you did for us throughout this Holy Week. Make each one of us humble vessels as we continue to wait and trust you. We thank you Lord for your love and your grace that carries us through each single day. And as we look forward to the resurrected Christ on Sunday as we celebrate the risen savior, heavenly father Lord I pray that all of us would be renewed in our strength, all of us would be met at our various point of need, all of us would sing a new song. Thank you, most gracious God, because we know that our savior Jesus Christ will rise again, and we all shall celebrate with him in glory. Amen.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Tuesday April 11, 2023 (NIV)

Joshua 3-4

Israel Crosses the Jordan

3 Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan.[a] They camped there before crossing the river.[b] 2 After three days the leaders went through the camp 3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God[c] being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here[d] and walk[e] behind it. 4 But stay about 3,000 feet behind it.[f] Keep your distance[g] so you can see[h] which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”

5 Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.” 6 Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel,[i] so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses. 8 Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, ‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River,[j] wade into the water.’”[k]

9 Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!” 10 Joshua continued,[l] “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. 11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord[m] of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you. 12 Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe. 13 When the feet[n] of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Lord[o] of the whole earth, touch[p] the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”[q]

14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went[r] ahead of them. 15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan, and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface[s] of the water—(the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time)[t]— 16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing.[u] It piled up far upstream[v] at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley (the Salt Sea).[w] The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. 17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.[x]

Israel Commemorates the Crossing

4 When the entire nation was on the other side,[y] the Lord told Joshua, 2 “Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe. 3 Instruct them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests[z] stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”

4 Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe. 5 Joshua told them, “Go in front of the ark of the Lord your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes. 6 The stones[aa] will be a reminder to you.[ab] When your children ask someday, ‘Why are these stones important to you?’ 7 tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing[ac] before the ark of the covenant of the Lord. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing.[ad] These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.”

8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there. 9 Joshua also set up twelve stones[ae] in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly, 11 and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on.[af] 12 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them. 13 About 40,000 battle-ready troops[ag] marched past the Lord to fight[ah] on the rift valley plains[ai] of Jericho. 14 That day the Lord brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected[aj] him all his life,[ak] just as they had respected[al] Moses.

15 The Lord told Joshua, 16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws[am] to come up from the Jordan.” 17 So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!” 18 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land,[an] the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.[ao]

19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month[ap] and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. 20 Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the[aq] twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. 21 He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’[ar] 22 explain to[as] your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan River[at] on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.[au] 24 He has done this so[av] all the nations[aw] of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power[ax] and so you might always obey[ay] the Lord your God.”

Footnotes:

  1. Joshua 3:1 tn Heb “And Joshua arose early in the morning and he and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan.”
  2. Joshua 3:1 tn The words “the river,” though not in the Hebrew text, have been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  3. Joshua 3:3 sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.
  4. Joshua 3:3 tn Heb “set out from your place.”
  5. Joshua 3:3 tn Or “march.”
  6. Joshua 3:4 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in measurement.”sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (ʾammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately 18 inches, or 45 cm) in length.
  7. Joshua 3:4 tn Heb “do not approach it.”
  8. Joshua 3:4 tn Heb “know.”
  9. Joshua 3:7 tn Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”
  10. Joshua 3:8 tn Heb “the edge of the waters of the Jordan.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied for clarity.
  11. Joshua 3:8 tn Heb “stand in the Jordan.” Here the repetition of the word “Jordan” would be redundant according to contemporary English style, so it was not included in the translation.
  12. Joshua 3:10 tn Heb “said.”
  13. Joshua 3:11 tn Or “Ruler”; or “Master.”
  14. Joshua 3:13 tn Heb “the soles of the feet.”
  15. Joshua 3:13 tn Or “Ruler”; or “Master.”
  16. Joshua 3:13 tn Or “rest in.”
  17. Joshua 3:13 tn Heb “the waters of the Jordan, the waters descending from above, will be cut off so that they will stand in one pile.”
  18. Joshua 3:14 tn The verb, though not in the Hebrew, is added for clarification.
  19. Joshua 3:15 tn Heb “dipped into the edge.”
  20. Joshua 3:15 tn Heb “and the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest.”sn The lengthy description of the priests’ arrival at the Jordan and the parenthetical reminder that the Jordan was at flood stage delay the climax of the story and add to its dramatic buildup.
  21. Joshua 3:16 tn Heb “the waters descending from above stood still.”
  22. Joshua 3:16 tn Heb “they stood in one pile very far away.”
  23. Joshua 3:16 tn Heb “the [waters] descending… were completely cut off.”sn The Salt Sea is an ancient name for the Dead Sea.
  24. Joshua 3:17 tn Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
  25. Joshua 4:1 tn Heb “And when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”
  26. Joshua 4:3 tn Heb “the feet of the priests.”
  27. Joshua 4:6 tn Heb “that this may be”; the referent of “this” (the twelve stones) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  28. Joshua 4:6 tn Heb “in order that this might be a sign among you.”
  29. Joshua 4:7 tn Heb “were cut off from before.”
  30. Joshua 4:7 tn Heb “how the waters descending from above stood still.”
  31. Joshua 4:9 tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.
  32. Joshua 4:11 tn Heb “in the presence of the people.”
  33. Joshua 4:13 tn Heb “men equipped for battle.”
  34. Joshua 4:13 tn Heb “for war.”
  35. Joshua 4:13 sn The עֲרָבָה (ʿaravah, “rift valley”) extends from Galilee to the Gulf of Aqaba. The עַרְבוֹת (ʿarevot) of Jericho” refer to the parts of the Jordan Valley in the vicinity of Jericho (see HALOT 880 s.v. עֲרָבָה). The region is characterized by gently sloping plains which descend about 450 feet over the five miles from Jericho to the Jordan. Many translation say simply the “plains of Jericho” for the portion west of the Jordan and “plains of Moab” for the eastern portion. The translation here clarifies that the plains are part of the rift valley basin.
  36. Joshua 4:14 tn Heb “feared.”
  37. Joshua 4:14 tn Heb “all the days of his life.”
  38. Joshua 4:14 tn Heb “had feared.”
  39. Joshua 4:16 tn Traditionally, “the ark of the testimony,” another name for the ark of the covenant. The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (ʿedut, “testimony” or “witness”) here refers to the Mosaic covenant and the body of stipulations contained within it (see HALOT 791 s.v. 2).
  40. Joshua 4:18 tn Heb “and the soles of the feet of the priests were brought up to the dry land.”
  41. Joshua 4:18 tn Heb “and the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as formerly over their banks.”sn Verses 15-18 give a more detailed account of the priests’ crossing that had been briefly described in v. 11.
  42. Joshua 4:19 sn The first month was the month Abib (= late March-early April in the modern calendar). The preparations for Passover also began on the tenth day of the first month (Exod 12:2-3).
  43. Joshua 4:20 tn Heb “these,” referring specifically to the twelve stones mentioned in vv. 3-7.
  44. Joshua 4:21 tn Heb “What are these stones?”
  45. Joshua 4:22 tn Heb “make known to.”
  46. Joshua 4:22 tn Heb “crossed this Jordan”; the word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied to clarify the meaning.
  47. Joshua 4:23 tn Heb “just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when he dried [it] up before us while we crossed over.”
  48. Joshua 4:24 tn Heb “in order that.”
  49. Joshua 4:24 tn Or “peoples.”
  50. Joshua 4:24 tn Heb “know the hand of the Lord that it is strong.”
  51. Joshua 4:24 tn Heb “fear.”
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Luke 14:7-35

On Seeking Seats of Honor

7 Then[a] when Jesus[b] noticed how the guests[c] chose the places of honor,[d] he told them a parable. He said to them, 8 “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast,[e] do not take[f] the place of honor, because a person more distinguished than you may have been invited by your host.[g] 9 So[h] the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then, ashamed,[i] you will begin to move to the least important[j] place. 10 But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host[k] approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.’[l] Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you. 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but[m] the one who humbles[n] himself will be exalted.”

12 He[o] said also to the man[p] who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet,[q] don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid. 13 But when you host an elaborate meal,[r] invite the poor, the crippled,[s] the lame, and[t] the blind.[u] 14 Then[v] you will be blessed,[w] because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid[x] at the resurrection of the righteous.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

15 When[y] one of those at the meal with Jesus[z] heard this, he said to him, “Blessed is everyone[aa] who will feast[ab] in the kingdom of God!”[ac] 16 But Jesus[ad] said to him, “A man once gave a great banquet[ae] and invited[af] many guests.[ag] 17 At[ah] the time for the banquet[ai] he sent his slave[aj] to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, because everything is now ready.’ 18 But one after another they all[ak] began to make excuses.[al] The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field,[am] and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.’[an] 19 Another[ao] said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen,[ap] and I am going out[aq] to examine them. Please excuse me.’ 20 Another[ar] said, ‘I just got married, and I cannot come.’[as] 21 So[at] the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious[au] and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly[av] to the streets and alleys of the city,[aw] and bring in the poor,[ax] the crippled,[ay] the blind, and the lame.’ 22 Then[az] the slave said, ‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’[ba] 23 So[bb] the master said to his[bc] slave, ‘Go out to the highways[bd] and country roads[be] and urge[bf] people[bg] to come in, so that my house will be filled.[bh] 24 For I tell you, not one of those individuals[bi] who were invited[bj] will taste my banquet!’”[bk]

Counting the Cost

25 Now large crowds[bl] were accompanying Jesus,[bm] and turning to them he said, 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate[bn] his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life,[bo] he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not carry his own cross[bp] and follow[bq] me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down[br] first and compute the cost[bs] to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 Otherwise,[bt] when he has laid[bu] a foundation and is not able to finish the tower,[bv] all who see it[bw] will begin to make fun of[bx] him. 30 They will say,[by] ‘This man[bz] began to build and was not able to finish!’[ca] 31 Or what king, going out to confront another king in battle, will not sit down[cb] first and determine whether he is able with 10,000 to oppose[cc] the one coming against him with 20,000? 32 If he cannot succeed,[cd] he will send a representative[ce] while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.[cf] 33 In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.[cg]

34 “Salt[ch] is good, but if salt loses its flavor,[ci] how can its flavor be restored? 35 It is of no value[cj] for the soil or for the manure pile; it is to be thrown out.[ck] The one who has ears to hear had better listen!”[cl]

Footnotes:

  1. Luke 14:7 tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.
  2. Luke 14:7 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  3. Luke 14:7 tn Grk “those who were invited.”
  4. Luke 14:7 tn Or “the best places.” The “places of honor” at the meal would be those closest to the host.
  5. Luke 14:8 tn Or “banquet.” This may not refer only to a wedding feast, because this term can have broader sense (note the usage in Esth 2:18; 9:22 LXX). However, this difference does not affect the point of the parable.
  6. Luke 14:8 tn Grk “do not recline in the place of honor.” 1st century middle eastern meals were not eaten while sitting at a table, but while reclining on one’s side on the floor with the head closest to the low table and the feet farthest away.
  7. Luke 14:8 tn Grk “by him”; the referent (the host) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  8. Luke 14:9 tn Grk “host, and.” Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate this action is a result of the situation described in the previous verse. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
  9. Luke 14:9 tn Or “then in disgrace”; Grk “with shame.” In this culture avoiding shame was important.
  10. Luke 14:9 tn Grk “lowest place” (also in the repetition of the phrase in the next verse).
  11. Luke 14:10 tn Grk “the one who invited you.”
  12. Luke 14:10 tn Grk “Go up higher.” This means to move to a more important place.
  13. Luke 14:11 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context, which involves the reversal of expected roles.
  14. Luke 14:11 sn The point of the statement the one who humbles himself will be exalted is humility and the reversal imagery used to underline it is common: Luke 1:52-53; 6:21; 10:15; 18:14.
  15. Luke 14:12 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  16. Luke 14:12 sn That is, the leader of the Pharisees (v. 1).
  17. Luke 14:12 tn The meaning of the two terms for meals here, ἄριστον (ariston) and δεῖπνον (deipnon), essentially overlap (L&N 23.22). Translators usually try to find two terms for a meal to use as equivalents (e.g., lunch and dinner, dinner and supper, etc.). In this translation “dinner” and “banquet” have been used, since the expected presence of rich neighbors later in the verse suggests a rather more elaborate occasion than an ordinary meal.
  18. Luke 14:13 tn This term, δοχή (dochē), is a third term for a meal (see v. 12) that could also be translated “banquet, feast.”
  19. Luke 14:13 sn Normally the term means crippled as a result of being maimed or mutilated (L&N 23.177).
  20. Luke 14:13 tn Here “and” has been supplied between the last two elements in the series in keeping with English style.
  21. Luke 14:13 sn This list of needy is like Luke 7:22. See Deut 14:28-29; 16:11-14; 26:11-13.
  22. Luke 14:14 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate that this follows from the preceding action. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
  23. Luke 14:14 sn You will be blessed. God notes and approves of such generosity.
  24. Luke 14:14 sn The passive verb will be repaid looks at God’s commendation.
  25. Luke 14:15 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  26. Luke 14:15 tn The reference to “Jesus” has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  27. Luke 14:15 tn Grk “whoever” (the indefinite relative pronoun). This has been translated as “everyone who” to conform to contemporary English style.
  28. Luke 14:15 tn Or “will dine”; Grk “eat bread.” This refers to those who enjoy the endless fellowship of God’s coming rule.
  29. Luke 14:15 sn The kingdom of God is a major theme of Jesus’ teaching. The nature of the kingdom of God in the NT and in Jesus’ teaching has long been debated by interpreters and scholars, with discussion primarily centering around the nature of the kingdom (earthly, heavenly, or both) and the kingdom’s arrival (present, future, or both). An additional major issue concerns the relationship between the kingdom of God and the person and work of Jesus himself. See Luke 6:20; 11:20; 17:20-21.
  30. Luke 14:16 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  31. Luke 14:16 tn Or “dinner.”
  32. Luke 14:16 sn Presumably those invited would have sent a reply with the invitation stating their desire to attend, much like a modern R.S.V.P. Then they waited for the servant to announce the beginning of the celebration (D. L. Bock, Luke [BECNT], 2:1272).
  33. Luke 14:16 tn The word “guests” is not in the Greek text but is implied.
  34. Luke 14:17 tn Grk “And at.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  35. Luke 14:17 tn Or “dinner.”
  36. Luke 14:17 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 7:2.
  37. Luke 14:18 tn Or “all unanimously” (BDAG 107 s.v. ἀπό 6). “One after another” is suggested by L&N 61.2.
  38. Luke 14:18 sn To make excuses and cancel at this point was an insult in the culture of the time. Regardless of customs concerning responses to invitations, refusal at this point was rude.
  39. Luke 14:18 sn I have bought a field. An examination of newly bought land was a common practice. It was this person’s priority.
  40. Luke 14:18 sn The expression Please excuse me is probably a polite way of refusing, given the dynamics of the situation, although it is important to note that an initial acceptance had probably been indicated and it was now a bit late for a refusal. The semantic equivalent of the phrase may well be “please accept my apologies.”
  41. Luke 14:19 tn Grk “And another.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  42. Luke 14:19 sn Five yoke of oxen. This was a wealthy man, because the normal farmer had one or two yoke of oxen.
  43. Luke 14:19 tn The translation “going out” for πορεύομαι (poreuomai) is used because “going” in this context could be understood to mean “I am about to” rather than the correct nuance, “I am on my way to.”
  44. Luke 14:20 tn Grk “And another.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  45. Luke 14:20 sn I just got married, and I cannot come. There is no request to be excused here; just a refusal. Why this disqualifies attendance is not clear. The OT freed a newly married man from certain responsibilities such as serving in the army (Deut 20:7; 24:5), but that would hardly apply to a banquet. The invitation is not respected in any of the three cases.
  46. Luke 14:21 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the result of the preceding responses.
  47. Luke 14:21 tn Grk “being furious, said.” The participle ὀργισθείς (orgistheis) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
  48. Luke 14:21 sn It was necessary to go out quickly because the banquet was already prepared. All the food would spoil if not eaten immediately.
  49. Luke 14:21 tn Or “town.”
  50. Luke 14:21 sn The poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame. Note how the list matches v. 13, illustrating that point. Note also how the party goes on; it is not postponed until a later date. Instead new guests are invited.
  51. Luke 14:21 tn Grk “and the crippled.” Normally crippled as a result of being maimed or mutilated (L&N 23.177). Καί (kai) has not been translated here and before the following category (Grk “and the blind and the lame”) since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
  52. Luke 14:22 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the order of events within the parable.
  53. Luke 14:22 sn And still there is room. This comment suggests the celebration was quite a big one, picturing the openness of God’s grace.
  54. Luke 14:23 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the master’s response to the slave’s report.
  55. Luke 14:23 tn Grk “the”; in context the article is used as a possessive pronoun (ExSyn 215).
  56. Luke 14:23 sn Go out to the highways and country roads. This suggests the inclusion of people outside the town, even beyond the needy (poor, crippled, blind, and lame) in the town, and so is an allusion to the inclusion of the Gentiles.
  57. Luke 14:23 tn The Greek word φραγμός (phragmos) refers to a fence, wall, or hedge surrounding a vineyard (BDAG 1064 s.v. 1). “Highways” and “country roads” probably refer not to separate places, but to the situation outside the town where the rural roads run right alongside the hedges or fences surrounding the fields (cf. J. A. Fitzmyer, Luke [AB], 1057).
  58. Luke 14:23 tn Traditionally “force” or “compel,” but according to BDAG 60 s.v. ἀναγκάζω 2 this is a weakened nuance: “strongly urge/invite.” The meaning in this context is more like “persuade.”
  59. Luke 14:23 tn The word “people” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
  60. Luke 14:23 sn So that my house will be filled. God will bless many people.
  61. Luke 14:24 tn The Greek word here is ἀνήρ (anēr), which frequently stresses males or husbands (in contrast to women or wives). However, the emphasis in the present context is on identifying these individuals as the ones previously invited, examples of which were given in vv. 18-20. Cf. also BDAG 79 s.v. ἀνήρ 2.
  62. Luke 14:24 sn None of those individuals who were invited. This is both the point and the warning. To be a part of the original invitation does not mean one automatically has access to blessing. One must respond when the summons comes in order to participate. The summons came in the person of Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom. The statement here refers to the fact that many in Israel will not be blessed with participation, for they have ignored the summons when it came.
  63. Luke 14:24 tn Or “dinner.”
  64. Luke 14:25 sn It is important to note that the following remarks are not just to disciples, but to the large crowds who were following Jesus.
  65. Luke 14:25 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  66. Luke 14:26 tn This figurative use operates on a relative scale. God is to be loved more than family or self.
  67. Luke 14:26 tn Grk “his own soul,” but ψυχή (psuchē) is frequently used of one’s physical life. It clearly has that meaning in this context.
  68. Luke 14:27 sn It was customary practice in a Roman crucifixion for the prisoner to be made to carry his own cross. Jesus is speaking figuratively here in the context of rejection. If the priority is not one’s allegiance to Jesus, then one will not follow him in the face of possible rejection; see Luke 9:23.
  69. Luke 14:27 tn Grk “and come after.” In combination with the verb ἔρχομαι (erchomai) the improper preposition ὀπίσω (opisō) means “follow.”
  70. Luke 14:28 tn The participle καθίσας (kathisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
  71. Luke 14:28 tn The first illustration involves checking to see if enough funds exist to build a watchtower. Both ψηφίζω (psēphizō, “compute”) and δαπάνη (dapanē, “cost”) are economic terms.
  72. Luke 14:29 tn Grk “to complete it, lest.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation and ἵνα μήποτε (hina mēpote, “lest”) has been translated as “Otherwise.”
  73. Luke 14:29 tn The participle θέντος (thentos) has been taken temporally.
  74. Luke 14:29 tn The words “the tower” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
  75. Luke 14:29 tn The word “it” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.
  76. Luke 14:29 tn Or “mock,” “ridicule.” The person who did not plan ahead becomes an object of joking and ridicule.
  77. Luke 14:30 tn Grk “make fun of him, saying.”
  78. Luke 14:30 sn The phrase this man is often used in Luke in a derogatory sense; see “this one” and expressions like it in Luke 5:21; 7:39; 13:32; 23:4, 14, 22, 35.
  79. Luke 14:30 sn The failure to finish the building project leads to embarrassment (in a culture where avoiding public shame was extremely important). The half completed tower testified to poor preparation and planning.
  80. Luke 14:31 tn The participle καθίσας (kathisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.
  81. Luke 14:31 tn On the meaning of this verb see also L&N 55.3, “to meet in battle, to face in battle.”
  82. Luke 14:32 tn Grk “And if not.” Here δέ (de) has not been translated; “succeed” is implied and has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
  83. Luke 14:32 tn Grk “a messenger.”
  84. Luke 14:32 sn This image is slightly different from the former one about the tower (vv. 28-30). The first part of the illustration (sit down first and determine) deals with preparation. The second part of the illustration (ask for terms of peace) has to do with recognizing who is stronger. This could well suggest thinking about what refusing the “stronger one” (God) might mean, and thus constitutes a warning. Achieving peace with God, the more powerful king, is the point of the illustration.
  85. Luke 14:33 tn Grk “Likewise therefore every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions cannot be my disciple.” The complex double negation is potentially confusing to the modern reader and has been simplified in the translation. See L&N 57.70.sn The application of the saying is this: Discipleship requires that God be in first place. The reference to renunciation of all his own possessions refers to all earthly attachments that have first place.
  86. Luke 14:34 tn Grk “Now salt…”; here οὖν has not been translated.sn Salt was used as seasoning or fertilizer (BDAG 41 s.v. ἅλας a), or as a preservative. If salt ceased to be useful, it was thrown away. With this illustration Jesus warned about a disciple who ceased to follow him.
  87. Luke 14:34 sn The difficulty of this saying is understanding how salt could lose its flavor since its chemical properties cannot change. It is thus often assumed that Jesus was referring to chemically impure salt, perhaps a natural salt which, when exposed to the elements, had all the genuine salt leached out, leaving only the sediment or impurities behind. Others have suggested the background of the saying is the use of salt blocks by Arab bakers to line the floor of their ovens: Under the intense heat these blocks would eventually crystallize and undergo a change in chemical composition, finally being thrown out as unserviceable. A saying in the Talmud (b. Bekhorot 8b) attributed to R. Joshua ben Chananja (ca. a.d. 90), recounts how when he was asked the question “When salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again?” is said to have replied, “By salting it with the afterbirth of a mule.” He was then asked, “Then does the mule (being sterile) bear young?” to which he replied: “Can salt lose its flavor?” The point appears to be, both are impossible. The saying, while admittedly late, suggests that culturally the loss of flavor by salt was regarded as an impossibility. Genuine salt can never lose its flavor. In this case the saying by Jesus here may be similar to Matt 19:24, where it is likewise impossible for the camel to go through the eye of a sewing needle.
  88. Luke 14:35 tn Or “It is not useful” (L&N 65.32).
  89. Luke 14:35 tn Grk “they throw it out.” The third person plural with unspecified subject is a circumlocution for the passive here.
  90. Luke 14:35 tn The translation “had better listen!” captures the force of the third person imperative more effectively than the traditional “let him hear,” which sounds more like a permissive than an imperative to the modern English reader. This was Jesus’ common expression to listen and heed carefully (cf. Matt 11:15; 13:9, 43; Mark 4:9, 23; Luke 8:8).
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Psalm 80

Psalm 80[a]

For the music director, according to the shushan-eduth style;[b] a psalm of Asaph.

80 O Shepherd of Israel, pay attention,
you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep.
You who sit enthroned above the cherubim,[c] reveal your splendor.[d]
2 In the sight of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh reveal[e] your power.
Come and deliver us.[f]
3 O God, restore us.
Smile on us.[g] Then we will be delivered.[h]
4 O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,[i]
how long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?[j]
5 You have given them tears as food;[k]
you have made them drink tears by the measure.[l]
6 You have made our neighbors dislike us,[m]
and our enemies insult us.
7 O God of Heaven’s Armies,[n] restore us.
Smile on us.[o] Then we will be delivered.[p]
8 You uprooted a vine[q] from Egypt;
you drove out nations and transplanted it.
9 You cleared the ground for it;[r]
it took root,[s]
and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shadow,
the highest cedars[t] by its branches.
11 Its branches reached the Mediterranean Sea,[u]
and its shoots the Euphrates River.[v]
12 Why did you break down its walls,[w]
so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?[x]
13 The wild boars of the forest ruin it;[y]
the insects[z] of the field feed on it.
14 O God of Heaven’s Armies,[aa] come back.
Look down from heaven and take notice.
Take care of this vine,
15 the root[ab] your right hand planted,
the shoot you made to grow.[ac]
16 It is burned[ad] and cut down.
May those who did this die because you are displeased with them.[ae]
17 May you give support to the one you have chosen,[af]
to the one whom you raised up for yourself.[ag]
18 Then we will not turn away from you.
Revive us and we will pray to you.[ah]
19 O Lord God of Heaven’s Armies,[ai] restore us.
Smile on us.[aj] Then we will be delivered.[ak]

Footnotes:

  1. Psalm 80:1 sn Psalm 80. The psalmist laments Israel’s demise and asks the Lord to show favor toward his people, as he did in earlier times.
  2. Psalm 80:1 tn The Hebrew expression shushan-eduth means “lily of the testimony.” It may refer to a particular music style or to a tune title. See the superscription to Ps 60.
  3. Psalm 80:1 sn Cherubim are winged angels. As depicted in the OT, they possess both human and animal (lion, ox, and eagle) characteristics (see Ezek 1:10; 10:14, 21; 41:18). They are pictured as winged creatures (Exod 25:20; 37:9; 1 Kgs 6:24-27; Ezek 10:8, 19) and serve as the very throne of God when the ark of the covenant is in view (Ps 99:1; see Num 7:89; 1 Sam 4:4; 2 Sam 6:2; 2 Kgs 19:15). The picture of the Lord seated on the cherubim suggests they might be used by him as a vehicle, a function they carry out in Ezek 1:22-28 (the “living creatures” mentioned here are identified as cherubim in Ezek 10:20). In Ps 18:10 the image of a cherub serves to personify the wind.
  4. Psalm 80:1 tn Heb “shine forth.”sn Reveal your splendor. The psalmist may allude to Deut 33:2, where God “shines forth” from Sinai and comes to superintend Moses’ blessing of the tribes.
  5. Psalm 80:2 tn Heb “stir up”; “arouse.”
  6. Psalm 80:2 tn Heb “come for our deliverance.”
  7. Psalm 80:3 tn The idiom “cause your face to shine” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 89:15; Dan 9:17).
  8. Psalm 80:3 tn Heb “cause your face to shine in order that we may be delivered.” After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.
  9. Psalm 80:4 tn Heb “Lord, God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי (ʾelohe) before צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot; “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ʾelohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. In this context the term “hosts” has been rendered “Heaven’s Armies.”
  10. Psalm 80:4 tn Heb “How long will you remain angry during the prayer of your people.” Some take the preposition ב (bet) in an adversative sense here (“at/against the prayer of your people”), but the temporal sense is preferable. The psalmist expects persistent prayer to pacify God.
  11. Psalm 80:5 tn Heb “you have fed them the food of tears.”
  12. Psalm 80:5 tn Heb “[by] the third part [of a measure].” The Hebrew term שָׁלִישׁ (shalish, “third part [of a measure]”) occurs only here and in Isa 40:12.
  13. Psalm 80:6 tn Heb “you have made us an object of contention to our neighbors.”
  14. Psalm 80:7 tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ʾelohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also v. 4 for a similar construction.
  15. Psalm 80:7 tn The idiom “cause your face to shine” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 89:15; Dan 9:17).
  16. Psalm 80:7 tn Heb “cause your face to shine in order that we may be delivered.” After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.
  17. Psalm 80:8 sn The vine is here a metaphor for Israel (see Ezek 17:6-10; Hos 10:1).
  18. Psalm 80:9 tn Heb “you cleared away before it.”
  19. Psalm 80:9 tn Heb “and it took root [with] its roots.”
  20. Psalm 80:10 tn Heb “cedars of God.” The divine name אֵל (ʾel, “God”) is here used in an idiomatic manner to indicate the superlative.
  21. Psalm 80:11 tn Heb “to [the] sea.” The “sea” refers here to the Mediterranean Sea.
  22. Psalm 80:11 tn Heb “to [the] river.” The “river” is the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia. Israel expanded both to the west and to the east.
  23. Psalm 80:12 sn The protective walls of the metaphorical vineyard are in view here (see Isa 5:5).
  24. Psalm 80:12 tn Heb “pluck it.”
  25. Psalm 80:13 tn The Hebrew verb כִּרְסֵם (kirsem, “to eat away; to ruin”) occurs only here in the OT.
  26. Psalm 80:13 tn The precise referent of the Hebrew word translated “insects,” which occurs only here and in Ps 50:11, is uncertain. Aramaic, Arabic, and Akkadian cognates refer to insects, such as locusts or crickets.
  27. Psalm 80:14 tn Heb “O God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ʾelohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7 for a similar construction.
  28. Psalm 80:15 tn The form וְכַנָּה (vekhannah, “and a root”) is understood as וְכַנָּהּ (vekhannah), taking the ה (he) at the end as the third feminine singular pronominal suffix הּ (he with mappiq is hard “h”) rather than as the noun ending (see HALOT 483 s.v. III כֵּן). Elsewhere the noun refers to a pedestal or base, most often for the wash basin between the tabernacle and the altar. Translations here vary as “root” (NIV), “shoot” (NASB), “stock” (ASV, ESV, RSV), or the contextually driven “vineyard” (KJV).
  29. Psalm 80:15 tn Heb “and upon a son you strengthened for yourself.” In this context, where the extended metaphor of the vine dominates, בֵּן (ben, “son”) probably refers to the shoots that grow from the vine. Cf. Gen 49:22.
  30. Psalm 80:16 tn Heb “burned with fire.”
  31. Psalm 80:16 tn Heb “because of the rebuke of your face they perish.”
  32. Psalm 80:17 tn Heb “may your hand be upon the man of your right hand.” The referent of the otherwise unattested phrase “man of your right hand,” is unclear. It may refer to the nation collectively as a man. (See the note on the word “yourself” in v. 17b.)
  33. Psalm 80:17 tn Heb “upon the son of man you strengthened for yourself.” In its only other use in the Book of Psalms, the phrase “son of man” refers to the human race in general (see Ps 8:4). Here the phrase may refer to the nation collectively as a man. Note the use of the statement “you strengthened for yourself” both here and in v. 15, where the “son” (i.e., the branch of the vine) refers to Israel.
  34. Psalm 80:18 tn Heb “and in your name we will call.”
  35. Psalm 80:19 tn Heb “O Lord, God, hosts.” One expects the construct form אֱלֹהֵי before צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot, “hosts”; see Ps 89:9), but יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים (yehvah ʾelohim) precedes צְבָאוֹת (tsevaʾot) in Pss 59:5 and 84:8 as well. See also vv. 4, 7, 14 for a similar construction.
  36. Psalm 80:19 tn The idiom “cause your face to shine” probably refers to a smile (see Eccl 8:1), which in turn suggests favor and blessing (see Num 6:25; Pss 4:6; 31:16; 44:3; 67:1; 89:15; Dan 9:17).
  37. Psalm 80:19 tn Heb “cause your face to shine in order that we may be delivered.” After the imperative, the cohortative with prefixed vav (ו) indicates purpose/result.
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Proverbs 12:27-28

27 The lazy person does not roast[a] his prey,
but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.[b]
28 In the path of righteousness there is life,
but another path[c] leads to death.[d]

Footnotes:

  1. Proverbs 12:27 tc The MT reads יַחֲרֹךְ (yakharokh) from II חָרַךְ (kharakh, “to roast”?). On the other hand, several versions (LXX, Syriac, Vulgate) reflect a Hebrew Vorlage of יַדְרִיךְ (yadrikh) from דָרַךְ (darakh, “to gain”), meaning: “a lazy person cannot catch his prey” (suggested by Gemser; cf. NAB). The MT is the more difficult reading, being a hapax legomenon, and therefore should be retained; the versions are trying to make sense out of a rare expression.tn The verb II חָרַךְ (kharakh) is a hapax legomenon, appearing in the OT only here. BDB suggests that it means “to start; to set in motion” (BDB 355 s.v.). The related Aramaic and Syriac verb means “to scorch; to parch,” and the related Arabic verb means “to roast; to scorch by burning”; so it may mean “to roast; to fry” (HALOT 353 s.v. I חרך). The lazy person can’t be bothered cooking what he has hunted. The Midrash sees an allusion to Jacob and Esau in Genesis 25. M. Dahood translates it: “the languid man will roast no game for himself, but the diligent will come on the wealth of the steppe” (“The Hapax harak in Proverbs 12:27, ” Bib 63 [1982]: 60-62). This hyperbole means that the lazy person does not complete a project.
  2. Proverbs 12:27 tn Heb “the precious possession of a man, diligent.” The LXX reads “but a valuable possession [is] a pure man” while Rashi, a highly esteemed 11th century Rabbi, interpreted it as “a precious possession of a man is to be diligent” (R. Murphy, Proverbs [WBC] 88). The translation assumes that the word יָקָר (yaqar, “precious”) should either be a construct form or transposed into predicate position. The implication is not to desire or overvalue possessions themselves but to take care of what one has.
  3. Proverbs 12:28 tc The MT has דֶרֶך נְתִיבָה (derekh netivah) “a way, a path.” The duplication of meaning is awkward. If the first word is repointed as a Qal participle (דֹּרֵך, dorekh) it could be understood as “treading a path [that leads to…].” The editors of BHS propose that the second word be emended to מְשׁוּבָה (meshuvah, “[way of] apostacy”) or תּוֹעֵבָה (toʿevah, “[way of] abomination”). The LXX reads “the ways of the revengeful [lead] to death.”
  4. Proverbs 12:28 tc The consonants אל־מות (ʾl mvt) are vocalized by the MT as אַל־מָוֶת (ʾal mavet, “no death”), perhaps meaning immortality (“the journey of [her] path is no-death”). M. Dahood suggests that it means permanence (“Immortality in Proverbs 12:28, ” Bib 41 [1960]: 176-81). However, many medieval Hebrew mss and all the versions vocalize it as אֶל־מָוֶת (ʾel mavet), meaning “leads to death” (cf. NAB, NCV). W. McKane adopts this reading, and suggests that MT is a scribal change toward eternal life (Proverbs [OTL], 451-52). Others adopt this reading because they do not find the term “life” used in Proverbs for eternal life, nor do they find references to immortality elsewhere in Proverbs.
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4/10/2023 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 34:1 - Joshua 2:24, Luke 13:22-14:6, Psalm 79:1-13, Proverbs 12:26

Today is the 10th day of April, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I’m Brian, it’s great to be here with you today, as we move forward taking the next step together. And our next step actually leads us to the end of a book. We’ve been working through the Book of Deuteronomy for a while now. The last discourses of Moses and we have one short chapter left in the Book of Deuteronomy, which we’ll read today. And then we will transition into a new book, the Book of Joshua. And we will read the first couple of chapters of Joshua. And we’ll talk about Joshua when we get there, but let’s dive in and read this final chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy which is chapter 34.

Introduction to the Book of Joshua:

Okay so, that concludes the book of Deuteronomy, which also means we have concluded the Torah or the Pentateuch, which are the first five books of the Bible. And if you’re kind of checking off your days in the Daily Audio Bible app, then you’ll get a badge that tells you, you have read through the Torah, that we have moved through the Torah this year. And as we did that, we said goodbye to Moses. And so, this is the moment we’ve finished the Torah, and we said goodbye to Moses. So, as we move forward, we’re moving forward into a new generation and a new era, a new part of the story. Almost since the beginning of the year, like all the way back into the Book of Genesis, we started this journey toward a Land of Promise. In fact, we were there when it was promised. We followed the children of Israel all the way through their slavery in Egypt. Their freedom, their wilderness journey, their first attempt when they sent spies into the land, their further wandering in the wilderness, all the way to this point. And now, we are at the point where they’re ready again to cross the Jordan River into the Promised Land. And we’ll see that as we begin the book of Joshua, God won’t waste time affirming the promise to Joshua and Joshua won’t waste time in preparing the people to do what they’ve come to do, which is cross the Jordan into the Promised Land. And at this point in the story, the children of Israel, it’s been centuries and so this promise for this land, for this people, who are chosen by God to reveal Him to the nations, it is centuries old. So, it’s like mythic at this point and they’re right at the threshold, about to cross in. And as they cross over the Jordan River into the Promised Land, they have to remember everything that they learned in the wilderness. Because it was the wilderness that changed their identity from slaves, to chosen ones. They learned who God was, then how to obey God and how to organize themselves in such a way that would reveal God to the neighboring nations around them. And now they have to go into this land with the absolute faith that they haven’t had previously, that God will go before them and that He will give them the land. But we’ll see pretty quickly that they don’t just walk into the land and move in, they will have to contend for this promise, and they will have to be utterly dependent upon God to do it. They will have to collaborate in obedience to God. And in some cases, they will be collaborating with God against all the odds. And we’ll see God give instructions that seem counterintuitive, which happens in our lives, sometimes. They would need to be sensitive, and they would need to be obedient, just like we do. Nevertheless, we are about to cross the Jordan River with the children of Israel. Everyone is on the same page, and we will see a glorious era of the children of Israel as they cross into the Promised Land. Of course, we’ll also see that there are some hiccups along the way and some stumbles. This glorious era isn’t the only era, there are other things that happen, and we’ll watch them move into the Promised Land and begin to slide away in the very ways that they were absolutely, very clearly warned not to walk. But we’ll get to that soon enough. Now, let’s enjoy the journey as we begin, the Book of Joshua and we will read chapters 1 and 2, today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word and this special day of completing the first five books in the Scriptures, the Torah, and moving into the Book of Joshua. We invite Your Holy Spirit to come, lead us into all truth, guide our steps, comfort us, correct us, lead us as Jesus was saying in the Gospels today, to the narrow door to God’s kingdom, lead us on the narrow path that leads to life. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey DAB, this is my first-time calling in. I want to lift up Your Little Songbird who had ear surgery and complained of tinnitus in her ears. Sister that is very real thing. And I too have some ringing in my ears. I’m a musician and enjoy making music to God’s glory. I ask that He would give you grace. Would He remind you any time your, you notice the ringing in your ears, remind you of His presence and His mercy. Lord, please remind Your Little Songbird that You were cursed for us, You are cursed and hung on a tree in our place. The chastisement that brought us peace was laid on You. We thank You for taking our sin upon Yourself. Thank You for Your abiding continued presence. Would You make it louder in our years than any other distraction in our world. In the name of Jesus. Amen.

Hey DAB family, this is Justin in Memphis. If you were listening in 2017, 18 you might remember Justin in Southern California that’s, that’s me now. I’m back. I haven’t been listening for several years. I started up again at the beginning of this year and glad to have this community back again. Please pray for me. My faith and my assurance has been on a downward slide ever since 2018. And lately I’m not really sure what I believe anymore, other than there’s a God who created me and loves me. I don’t know about any other, anything else. I don’t know about Jesus. I don’t know. I miss Jesus though. And so, just pray for me to find God again, to find truth, wherever that may be. But I can’t tell you have to pray but not pray that I come back to where I was, just that I find God’s truths wherever He leads me to it. So, thanks for listening.

Hello, DAB, this is New Envisioned Growth out of New York. I am calling because I just heard Beloved. She gave herself a name, she just gave herself a name, Beloved and I love it, Beloved. And your prayer at the end, on things you were saying at the end just resonated with mine right now on how we, you know, just make mistakes that we put ourselves in and that we go to God, knowing full and well that we, you know, put ourselves there. In your case you were saying you don’t really want to go to the Father, I am shameless, and I am the one who’s like help me. Help. Knowing good and well that I put myself in there. And it reminds me of like, little babies when they get toys in their head and then they drop and then they cry. And we pick it up for them and they drop it and now it’s a game. It becomes a game now. But I am so grateful that God is not like us because we’ll stop playing that game after a while and we’ll figure a way to kind of make it work for us. Or we’ll just have the baby cry. Right, so, now my prayer, when I go to God is just to help me change me. Because when I look at the situations that I put myself in, it’ll be the same type of spirit or thing that I’m dealing with in a different form. So, I’m still going to God, even though I make the mistake myself, but now I’m just asking for direction for God to pinpoint the common denominator in me and what the things that I’m dealing with. And I just pray that you find yours. So, thanks Belove, love the name, love you guys. Have a great day. Bye.

Hey guys, my names Garrett. It’s been a while since I’ve called in. Having some issues in my life lately and could really use your prayers. I’m dealing with some alcoholism and depression and just relationships that have failed. So, I really need some prayers and I need the Lord back in my life. I feel really guilty and just wanna be back and proud of the life that I’m living. I really would appreciate some prayers from you guys. Thank you. God bless.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Monday April 10, 2023 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 34 - Joshua 2

Moses’s Death

34 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,(A) which faces Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land: Gilead as far as Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean[a] Sea, 3 the Negev, and the plain in the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 The Lord then said to him, “This is the land I promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’(B) I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

5 So Moses the servant of the Lord(C) died there in the land of Moab, according to the Lord’s word. 6 He buried him[b] in the valley(D) in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.(E) 7 Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not left him. 8 The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days.(F) Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.(G)

9 Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom(H) because Moses had laid his hands on him.(I) So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.(J) 10 No prophet has arisen again in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.(K) 11 He was unparalleled for all the signs and wonders the Lord sent him to do against the land of Egypt—to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land— 12 and for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.(L)

Encouragement of Joshua

1 After the death of Moses(M) the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun,(N) Moses’s assistant: 2 “Moses my servant is dead.(O) Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan(P) to the land I am giving the Israelites. 3 I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads,(Q) just as I promised Moses. 4 Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon(R) to the great river, the Euphrates River—all the land of the Hittites(S)—and west to the Mediterranean Sea.(T) 5 No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live.(U) I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or abandon you.(V)

6 “Be strong and courageous,(W) for you will distribute the land I swore to their ancestors to give them as an inheritance.(X) 7 Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you.(Y) Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. 8 This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth;(Z) you are to meditate on[c] it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.(AA) 9 Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous?(AB) Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua Prepares the People

10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, 11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.’”(AC)

12 Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh,(AD) 13 “Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you when he said, ‘The Lord your God will give you rest, and he will give you this land.’(AE) 14 Your wives, dependents, and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your best soldiers must cross over in battle formation[d] ahead of your brothers and help them 15 until the Lord gives your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they too possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. You may then return to the land of your inheritance(AF) and take possession of what Moses the Lord’s servant(AG) gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”

16 They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go. 17 We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. Certainly the Lord your God will be with you, as he was with Moses.(AH) 18 Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!” (AI)

Spies Sent to Jericho

2 Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies(AJ) from the Acacia Grove,[e] saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab,(AK) and stayed there.

2 The king of Jericho was told, “Look, some of the Israelite men have come here tonight to investigate the land.” 3 Then the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house,(AL) for they came to investigate the entire land.”

4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them.(AM) So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I didn’t know where they were from. 5 At nightfall, when the city gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!” 6 But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them(AN) among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof. 7 The men pursued them along the road to the fords of the Jordan, and as soon as they left to pursue them, the city gate was shut.

The Promise to Rahab

8 Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof 9 and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land(AO) and that the terror of you has fallen on us,(AP) and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.[f](AQ) 10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt,(AR) and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings you completely destroyed(AS) across the Jordan. 11 When we heard this, we lost heart,(AT) and everyone’s courage failed[g] because of you,(AU) for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.(AV) 12 Now please swear to me by the Lord that you will also show kindness to my father’s family, because I showed kindness to you.(AW) Give me a sure sign[h] 13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and save us from death.”

14 The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”

15 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city. 16 “Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”

17 The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath you made us swear, 18 unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house. 19 If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his death will be his own fault,(AX) and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his death will be our fault. 20 And if you report our mission, we are free from the oath you made us swear.”

21 “Let it be as you say,” she replied, and she sent them away. After they had gone, she tied the scarlet cord to the window.

22 So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them. 23 Then the men returned, came down from the hill country, and crossed the Jordan. They went to Joshua son of Nun and reported everything that had happened to them. 24 They told Joshua, “The Lord has handed over the entire land to us. Everyone who lives in the land is also panicking because of us.”[i]

Footnotes:

  1. 34:2 Lit Western
  2. 34:6 Or he was buried
  3. 1:8 Or to recite
  4. 1:14 Or over armed
  5. 2:1 Or from Shittim
  6. 2:9 Or land panics at your approach
  7. 2:11 Lit and spirit no longer remained in anyone
  8. 2:12 Or a sign of truth
  9. 2:24 Or land also panics at our approach

Cross references:

  1. 34:1–4 : Dt 3:27; 32:48; Jos 13:20
  2. 34:4 : Gn 12:7; 15:18–20; 26:3; 35:12; Ex 33:1; 1Kg 4:24
  3. 34:5 : Jos 24:29; Jdg 2:8; 2Sm 3:18; 7:5,8; 1Kg 11:13; 14:8; 2Kg 18:12; 19:34; 21:8; Jb 1:8; 42:8; Is 20:3; 41:8–9; 42:1; 44:1; 52:13; 53:11
  4. 34:6 : Nm 21:20
  5. 34:6 : Jd 9
  6. 34:8 : Nm 20:29
  7. 34:8 : Mt 17:3
  8. 34:9 : Ex 28:3; 31:3–6; 1Kg 4:29; 5:12; 7:14; 2Ch 1:10–12; Is 11:2; Ac 6:3; Eph 1:17
  9. 34:9 : Nm 11:16–30; 27:18; 1Sm 10:1,10; 16:13
  10. 34:9 : Nm 26:65; 27:15–23; 34:17; Dt 1:38; 3:28; 31:3–8,14–23
  11. 34:10 : Ex 33:11
  12. 34:12 : Ex 7:3; Dt 4:34; 6:22; 7:19; 26:8; 29:3; Neh 9:10; Ps 78:43; 105:27
  13. 1:1 : Dt 34:5
  14. 1:1 : Ex 17:8–13; 33:11; Nm 13:8,16; 14:6–9; 27:18–23; Dt 31:2–8; 1Ch 7:20,27
  15. 1:2 : Dt 34:5–8
  16. 1:2 : Jos 1:11
  17. 1:3–5 : Dt 11:24–25
  18. 1:4 : Gn 15:18; Nm 34:3
  19. 1:4 : Gn 10:15; 15:19–21
  20. 1:4 : Dt 11:24; 1Kg 4:21,24–25; 8:65
  21. 1:5 : Dt 7:24
  22. 1:5 : Dt 31:6–8; Heb 13:5
  23. 1:6 : Jos 1:18; 10:25; 1Kg 2:2–3; 1Ch 22:13; 28:20; Ps 27:14; 31:24
  24. 1:6 : Gn 15:18; Ex 32:13; Dt 15:4
  25. 1:7 : Dt 5:32; 20:1–2; 21:1–3
  26. 1:8 : Dt 31:24; Jos 8:34
  27. 1:8 : Dt 29:9; Ps 1:1–3
  28. 1:9 : Dt 31:7–8; Jos 10:25
  29. 1:11 : Jos 3:2
  30. 1:12 : Nm 32:20–22
  31. 1:13–15 : Dt 3:18–20
  32. 1:15 : Jos 22:4
  33. 1:15 : Jos 1:1
  34. 1:17 : Jos 1:5,9
  35. 1:18 : Dt 31:7; Jos 1:6–7,9; 10:25
  36. 2:1 : Gn 42:9; Nm 13:2,16–17; Jos 7:2; Jdg 18:2
  37. 2:1 : Heb 11:31; Jms 2:25
  38. 2:3 : Gn 19:5
  39. 2:4 : 2Sm 17:19
  40. 2:6 : Jms 2:25
  41. 2:9 : Nm 20:24; Jos 9:24
  42. 2:9 : Ex 15:16; 23:27; Ezr 3:3; Jb 9:34; 13:21; Is 33:18; Jr 50:38
  43. 2:9 : Ex 15:15; Jos 2:24; 1Sm 14:16
  44. 2:10 : Ex 14:21–30
  45. 2:10 : Nm 21:23–30,33–35; Dt 2:32–34; 3:1–3; Jos 6:21
  46. 2:11 : Dt 1:28; 20:8; Jos 5:1; 7:5; 2Sm 17:10; Is 13:7; 19:1; Ezk 21:7; Nah 2:10
  47. 2:11 : Jos 5:1; 7:5; Ps 22:14; Is 13:7; 19:1
  48. 2:11 : Dt 4:39; 1Kg 8:23
  49. 2:12 : Gn 21:23; Jdg 1:24; 2Sm 2:5; 10:2
  50. 2:19 : Mt 27:25
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Luke 13:22-14:6

The Narrow Way

22 He went through one town and village after another, teaching and making his way to Jerusalem.(A) 23 “Lord,” someone asked him, “are only a few people going to be saved?” (B)

He said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door,(C) because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able 25 once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door.(D) Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us!’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’ 26 Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ 27 But he will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me,(E) all you evildoers!’ 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth(F) in that place,(G) when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God,(H) but yourselves thrown out. 29 They will come from east and west, from north and south, to share the banquet[a] in the kingdom of God. 30 Note this: Some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”(I)

Jesus and Herod Antipas

31 At that time some Pharisees came and told him, “Go, get out of here. Herod(J) wants to kill you.”(K)

32 He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.’[b](L) 33 Yet it is necessary that I(M) travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet(N) to perish(O) outside of Jerusalem.

Jesus’s Lamentation over Jerusalem

34 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem,(P) who kills the prophets and stones(Q) those who are sent to her.(R) How often I wanted to gather your children(S) together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,(T) but you were not willing!(U) 35 See, your house is abandoned to you.(V) I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when[c] you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’!”[d](W)

A Sabbath Controversy

14 One Sabbath, when he went in to eat[e] at the house of one of the leading Pharisees,(X) they were watching him closely.(Y) 2 There in front of him was a man whose body was swollen with fluid. 3 In response, Jesus asked the law experts(Z) and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”(AA) 4 But they kept silent. He took the man, healed him, and sent him away. 5 And to them, he said, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a well, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”(AB) 6 They could find no answer to these things.

Footnotes:

  1. 13:29 Lit recline at the table
  2. 13:32 Lit I will be finished
  3. 13:35 Other mss omit the time comes when
  4. 13:35 Ps 118:26
  5. 14:1 Lit eat bread

Cross references:

  1. 13:22 : Lk 9:51
  2. 13:23 : Mt 22:14; Lk 18:26; Ac 2:21; Rm 9:27; Eph 2:8; 1Pt 3:20; Rv 3:4
  3. 13:24 : Mt 7:13–14
  4. 13:25 : Mt 7:22–23; 10:33; 25:12
  5. 13:27 : Ps 6:8; 2Tm 2:19; Heb 3:12
  6. 13:28 : Mt 13:42,50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30
  7. 13:28–29 : Mt 8:11–12
  8. 13:28 : Mk 1:15; Lk 4:43
  9. 13:30 : Mt 19:30; 20:16; Mk 10:31
  10. 13:31 : Mt 14:1
  11. 13:31 : Mt 14:5; Mk 6:19; Jn 7:19–25; Ac 5:33
  12. 13:32 : Heb 2:10; 5:9; 7:28
  13. 13:33 : Ac 3:21; 17:3
  14. 13:33 : Mt 2:23; 21:11
  15. 13:33 : Mk 8:31
  16. 13:34–35 : Mt 23:37–39; Lk 19:41–44
  17. 13:34 : Heb 11:37
  18. 13:34 : 2Ch 24:20–22; Mt 21:35; Lk 20:15
  19. 13:34 : Ps 147:2; Is 62:1,4
  20. 13:34 : Dt 32:11; Ps 17:8; 36:7
  21. 13:34 : Jn 5:40
  22. 13:35 : Is 64:11; Jr 12:7; 22:1–8
  23. 13:35 : Ps 118:26; Mt 21:9; Lk 19:38; Jn 12:13
  24. 14:1 : Lk 7:36; 11:37
  25. 14:1 : Mk 3:2; Lk 6:7; 20:20
  26. 14:3 : Lk 7:30; 14:30
  27. 14:3 : Mt 12:2; Mk 3:4; Lk 6:2,9; 13:14; Jn 5:10
  28. 14:5 : Ex 21:33; Dt 22:4; Mt 12:11; Lk 13:15
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Psalm 79

Psalm 79

Faith amid Confusion

A psalm of Asaph.(A)

1 God, the nations have invaded your inheritance,
desecrated your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.(B)
2 They gave the corpses of your servants
to the birds of the sky for food,
the flesh of your faithful ones
to the beasts of the earth.(C)
3 They poured out their blood
like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.(D)
4 We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.(E)

5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?
Will your jealousy keep burning like fire?(F)
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations
that don’t acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,(G)
7 for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.(H)
8 Do not hold past iniquities[a] against us;
let your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become very weak.(I)

9 God of our salvation, help us,(J)
for the glory of your name.
Rescue us and atone for our sins,
for your name’s sake.(K)
10 Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?” (L)
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of your servants
be known among the nations.(M)
11 Let the groans of the prisoners reach you;
according to your great power,
preserve those condemned to die.(N)

12 Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors(O)
the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.(P)
13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,(Q)
will thank you forever;
we will declare your praise
to generation after generation.(R)

Footnotes:

  1. 79:8 Or hold the sins of past generations

Cross references:

  1. 79:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
  2. 79:1 : Jr 26:18; Lm 1:10; Mc 3:12
  3. 79:2 : Dt 28:26; Jr 7:33; 16:4
  4. 79:3 : Jr 14:16; 16:4; 22:19
  5. 79:4 : Ps 44:13–14; 80:6; Dn 9:16
  6. 79:5 : Ps 74:10; 78:58; 80:4
  7. 79:6 : Ps 14:4; Jr 10:25
  8. 79:7 : Ps 53:4
  9. 79:8 : Ps 142:6; Is 64:9
  10. 79:9 : 1Ch 16:35; Ps 85:4
  11. 79:9 : Ps 25:11; 106:8; Jr 14:7
  12. 79:10 : Ps 42:3,10; 115:2
  13. 79:10 : Dt 32:43; Ps 94:1–2; Jr 46:10
  14. 79:11 : Ps 102:20
  15. 79:12 : Lv 26:21,28
  16. 79:12 : Ps 74:10,18,22
  17. 79:13 : Ps 74:1; 100:3
  18. 79:13 : Ps 89:1; Is 43:21
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Proverbs 12:26

26 A righteous person is careful in dealing with his neighbor,[a]
but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.(A)

Footnotes:

  1. 12:26 Or person guides his neighbor

Cross references:

  1. 12:26 : Pr 14:22
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04/09/2023 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 33:1-29, Luke 13:1-21, Psalms 78:65-72, Proverbs 12:25

Today is the 9th day of April welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is wonderful to be here with you today as we greet a new week. But it is wonderful to be here with you today as we celebrate and rejoice in the most important day in human history. Today is Easter Sunday, resurrection day. The hope of the world centers and is held together by the events that we observe and commemorate today, the resurrection of Jesus from the dead as the victorious one.

Song:

Keith Green – The Victor

Swallowed into earth’s dark womb
And death has triumphed
That’s what they say
But tried to hold him in the tomb
The son of life
Rose on the third day

Just look
The gates of hell
They’re falling
Crumbling from the inside out
He’s bursting through
The walls with laughter (hah!)
Listen to the angels shout

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it

His plan of battle
You know it
He fooled them all
They led him off to prison to die
But as he entered hades hall
He broke those hellish chains with a cry

Just listen to those demons screaming
See him bruise the serpent’s head
The prisoners of hell
He’s redeeming (oh!)
All the power of death is dead

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it

Just look
The gates of hell they’re falling
Crumbling from the inside out
He’s bursting through the walls with laughter (hah!)
Listen to the angel’s shout
(listen, oh, listen)

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it

It is finished
He has done it
Life conquered death
Jesus Christ
Has won it

So, this is our last full day in the book of Deuteronomy and today we will read chapter 33.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. Jesus, we thank You for Your victory. Today on Easter Sunday as we celebrate the world over billions of us rejoice in Your victory and Your offer of salvation to the people of the earth. We are eternally grateful, and we are at a place again that we find ourselves so often where there aren’t the right words that can adequately say what we need to say. And, so, we once again realize that we say what we need to say through our lives as we humble ourselves before You and take this offer, this gift of eternal life, and as we live our earthly lives completely different ending up in a completely different place than we would have without You. The words aren’t adequate. Thank You seems so less than what needs to be said. You are the victorious Savior. You would not abandon us. You have rescued us. There is nothing about us that has not been touched and transformed and this continues on and on as we are sanctified and made into Your image. We rejoice in You and yes, we thank You with all of our hearts. We thank You.

Song:

Keith Green – Easter Song

Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing
That You can be born again
Here the bells ringing, they’re singing
Christ is risen from the dead

The angel up on the tombstone
Said, ? He has risen, just as He said
Quickly now, go tell His disciples
That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world
He has risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing
That You can be healed right now
Hear the bells ringing, they’re singing
Christ, He will reveal it now

The angels, they all surround us
And they are ministering Jesus’s power
Quickly now, reach out and receive it
For this could be your glorious hour

Joy to the world
He has risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

The angel up on the tombstone
Said, ? He has risen, just as He said
Quickly now, go tell His disciples
That Jesus Christ is no longer dead

Joy to the world
He has risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah
He’s risen, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Sunday April 9, 2023 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 33

Moses’s Blessings

33 This is the blessing that Moses, the man of God, gave the Israelites before his death.(A) 2 He said:

The Lord came from Sinai
and appeared to them from Seir;(B)
he shone on them from Mount Paran(C)
and came with ten thousand holy ones,[a]
with lightning[b] from his right hand[c] for them.(D)
3 Indeed he loves the people.[d](E)
All your[e] holy ones are in your hand,
and they assemble[f] at your feet.
Each receives your words.
4 Moses gave us instruction,
a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
5 So he became King in Jeshurun[g](F)
when the leaders of the people gathered
with the tribes of Israel.

6 Let Reuben live and not die
though his people become few.(G)

7 He said this about Judah:

Lord, hear Judah’s cry and bring him to his people.
He fights for his cause[h] with his own hands,
but may you be a help against his foes.

8 He said about Levi:

Your Thummim and Urim(H) belong to your faithful one;[i]
you tested him at Massah
and contended with him at the Waters of Meribah.(I)
9 He said about his father and mother,
“I do not regard them.”
He disregarded his brothers
and didn’t acknowledge his sons,
for they kept your word
and maintained your covenant.(J)
10 They will teach your ordinances to Jacob
and your instruction to Israel;(K)
they will set incense before you
and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
11 Lord, bless his possessions,[j]
and accept the work of his hands.
Break the back[k] of his adversaries and enemies,
so that they cannot rise again.

12 He said about Benjamin:

The Lord’s beloved rests[l] securely on him.
He[m] shields him all day long,
and he rests on his shoulders.[n]

13 He said about Joseph:

May his land be blessed by the Lord
with the dew of heaven’s bounty
and the watery depths that lie beneath;(L)
14 with the bountiful harvest from the sun
and the abundant yield of the seasons;
15 with the best products of the ancient mountains
and the bounty of the eternal hills;(M)
16 with the choice gifts of the land
and everything in it;
and with the favor of him
who appeared[o] in the burning bush.(N)
May these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince of his brothers.(O)
17 His firstborn bull has[p] splendor,
and horns like[q] those of a wild ox;
he gores all the peoples with them
to the ends of the earth.
Such are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
and such are the thousands of Manasseh.

18 He said about Zebulun:

Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,
and Issachar, in your tents.
19 They summon the peoples to a mountain;
there they offer acceptable sacrifices.
For they draw from the wealth of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.(P)

20 He said about Gad:

The one who enlarges Gad’s territory
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.(Q)
21 He chose the best part for himself,
because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.
He came with the leaders of the people;
he carried out the Lord’s justice
and his ordinances for Israel.(R)

22 He said about Dan:

Dan is a young lion,
leaping out of Bashan.(S)

23 He said about Naphtali:

Naphtali, enjoying approval,
full of the Lord’s blessing,
take[r] possession to the west and the south.

24 He said about Asher:

May Asher[s] be the most blessed of the sons;
may he be the most favored among his brothers
and dip his foot in olive oil.(T)
25 May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,
and your strength last as long as you live.

26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides the heavens to your aid,
the clouds in his majesty.(U)
27 The God of old is your dwelling place,(V)
and underneath are the everlasting arms.
He drives out the enemy before you
and commands, “Destroy!”
28 So Israel dwells securely;(W)
Jacob lives untroubled[t](X)
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.(Y)
29 How happy you are, Israel!
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord?
He is the shield that protects you,
the sword you boast in.
Your enemies will cringe before you,(Z)
and you will tread on their backs.[u](AA)

Footnotes:

  1. 33:2 LXX reads Mount Paran with ten thousands from Kadesh
  2. 33:2 Or fiery law; Hb obscure
  3. 33:2 Or ones, from his southland to the mountain slopes
  4. 33:3 Or peoples
  5. 33:3 Lit his, or its
  6. 33:3 Hb obscure
  7. 33:5 = Upright One, referring to Israel, also in v. 26
  8. 33:7 Or He contends for them
  9. 33:8 DSS, LXX read Give to Levi your Thummim, your Urim to your favored one
  10. 33:11 Or abilities
  11. 33:11 Or waist
  12. 33:12 Or Let the Lord’s beloved rest
  13. 33:12 LXX reads The Most High
  14. 33:12 Or and he dwells among his mountain slopes
  15. 33:16 Lit dwelt
  16. 33:17 Some DSS, Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg read A firstborn bull—he has
  17. 33:17 Lit and his horns are
  18. 33:23 Sam, LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read he will take
  19. 33:24 = Happy or Blessed; Gn 30:13
  20. 33:28 Text emended; MT reads Jacob’s fountain is alone
  21. 33:29 Or high places

Cross references:

  1. 33:1–29 : Gn 49:1–33
  2. 33:2 : Gn 14:6; 32:3; 36:8; Dt 1:2; Jdg 5:4
  3. 33:2 : Gn 21:21; Nm 10:12; 12:16; Dt 1:1; Hab 3:3
  4. 33:2 : Jdg 5:4–5; Ps 68:7–8; Hab 3:3
  5. 33:3 : Dt 4:37; Mal 1:2
  6. 33:5 : Dt 32:15; 33:26; Is 44:2
  7. 33:6 : Gn 49:3–4; Jdg 5:15–16
  8. 33:8 : Ex 28:30; Lv 8:8; Ezr 2:63; Neh 7:65
  9. 33:8 : Ex 17:1–7; Nm 20:2–13; Dt 6:16; 9:22; Ps 95:8
  10. 33:9 : Ex 32:25–29
  11. 33:10 : Dt 31:9–13
  12. 33:13 : Pr 3:20
  13. 33:15 : Gn 49:26; Hab 3:6
  14. 33:16 : Ex 3:2–4
  15. 33:16 : Gn 49:26
  16. 33:18–19 : Gn 49:13; Jdg 5:15,18
  17. 33:20 : 1Ch 12:8
  18. 33:20–21 : Nm 32:1–38
  19. 33:22 : Jdg 5:17
  20. 33:24 : Gn 49:20
  21. 33:26 : 2Sm 22:8–20; Ps 18:7–19; 68:4,33; Is 19:1
  22. 33:27 : Ps 91:9
  23. 33:28 : Lv 25:18–19; 26:5; Dt 12:10; 33:12; Jr 23:6; 33:16; Ezk 28:26; 34:28; 39:6
  24. 33:28 : Nm 23:9
  25. 33:28 : Dt 8:7–9
  26. 33:29 : 2Sm 22:44–46; Ps 18:43–45
  27. 33:29 : Dt 32:13; Hab 3:19
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Luke 13:1-21

Repent or Perish

13 At that time,(A) some people came and reported to him about the Galileans(B) whose blood Pilate(C) had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 And he[a] responded to them, “Do you think that these Galileans were more sinful than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things?(D) 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well. 4 Or those eighteen that the tower in Siloam(E) fell on and killed—do you think they were more sinful than all the other people who live in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as well.”

The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree

6 And he told this parable:(F) “A man had a fig tree that was planted in his vineyard. He came looking for fruit on it and found none.(G) 7 He told the vineyard worker, ‘Listen, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down!(H) Why should it even waste the soil?’(I)

8 “But he replied to him, ‘Sir,[b] leave it this year also, until I dig around it and fertilize it.(J) 9 Perhaps it will produce fruit next year, but if not, you can cut it down.’”

Healing a Daughter of Abraham

10 As he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath,(K) 11 a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit[c](L) for over eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all.[d] 12 When Jesus saw her, he called out to her,[e] “Woman, you are free of your disability.” 13 Then he laid his hands on her,(M) and instantly she was restored(N) and began to glorify God.(O)

14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant(P) because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done;(Q) therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

15 But the Lord answered him and said, “Hypocrites!(R) Doesn’t each one of you untie his ox(S) or donkey from the feeding trough(T) on the Sabbath and lead it to water?(U) 16 Satan(V) has bound(W) this woman, a daughter of Abraham,(X) for eighteen years—shouldn’t she be untied from this bondage[f] on the Sabbath day?”

17 When he had said these things, all his adversaries(Y) were humiliated,(Z) but the whole crowd was rejoicing over all the glorious things he was doing.(AA)

The Parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Leaven

18 He said, therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like,(AB) and what can I compare it to? 19 It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

20 Again he said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God(AC) to? 21 It’s like leaven[g](AD) that a woman took and mixed into fifty pounds[h] of flour until all of it was leavened.”

Footnotes:

  1. 13:2 Other mss read Jesus
  2. 13:8 Or Lord
  3. 13:11 Lit had a spirit of disability
  4. 13:11 Or straighten up completely
  5. 13:12 Or he summoned her
  6. 13:16 Or isn’t it necessary that she be untied from this bondage
  7. 13:21 Or yeast
  8. 13:21 Lit three sata; about forty liters

Cross references:

  1. 13:1 : Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:12–14
  2. 13:1 : Jn 4:45
  3. 13:1 : Mt 27:2
  4. 13:2 : Jn 9:2
  5. 13:4 : Jn 9:7
  6. 13:6 : Lk 5:35; 12:16
  7. 13:6 : Mt 21:18–19; Mk 11:13
  8. 13:7 : Mt 7:19; Lk 3:9; Jn 15:2; Rm 11:22
  9. 13:7 : Is 5:2
  10. 13:8 : Lk 16:3
  11. 13:10 : Lk 4:31; 6:6
  12. 13:11 : Mt 8:17; Lk 4:33; 6:18; 7:21; 8:2,29; 9:39
  13. 13:13 : Mt 19:15; Mk 5:23; 6:2,5; 8:23; Lk 4:40
  14. 13:13 : Ac 15:16; Heb 12:12
  15. 13:13 : Jn 11:4
  16. 13:14 : Mt 20:24; 21:15; 26:8; Mk 10:14,41; 14:4
  17. 13:14 : Ex 20:9; Ezk 46:1
  18. 13:15 : Lk 6:42
  19. 13:15 : Lk 14:5,19; 1Co 9:9
  20. 13:15 : Lk 2:7,12,16
  21. 13:15 : Mt 12:11; Lk 14:5
  22. 13:16 : Mt 4:1,10; Ac 13:10
  23. 13:16 : Mk 5:3; 15:1; 2Tm 2:9
  24. 13:16 : Gn 16:15; Jn 8:37; Heb 2:16
  25. 13:17 : Lk 21:5; 1Co 16:9; Php 1:28; 1Tm 5:14
  26. 13:17 : Ps 132:18; Is 45:16 LXX; 1Pt 3:16
  27. 13:17 : Is 12:5
  28. 13:18–19 : Mt 13:31–32; Mk 4:30–32
  29. 13:20–21 : Mt 13:33
  30. 13:21 : Mt 16:6,11–12; Mk 8:15; Lk 12:1; 1Co 5:6–8; Gl 5:9
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Psalm 78:65-72

65 The Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.(A)
66 He beat back his foes;
he gave them lasting disgrace.(B)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68 He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.(C)
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.(D)
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;(E)
71 he brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over his people Jacob—
over Israel, his inheritance.(F)
72 He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skillful hands.(G)

Cross references:

  1. 78:65 : Ps 73:20; 121:4; Is 42:13
  2. 78:66 : 1Sm 5:6; Ps 40:14
  3. 78:67–68 : Ps 87:2
  4. 78:69 : 1Kg 6
  5. 78:70 : 1Sm 16:11–13
  6. 78:71 : Ps 28:9; Is 40:11
  7. 78:72 : 1Kg 9:4; Ps 101:2
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Proverbs 12:25

25 Anxiety in a person’s heart weighs it down,
but a good word cheers it up.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 12:25 : Ps 94:19; Pr 15:13; 16:24; Mt 6:25–34
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4/8/2023 DAB Transcript

Deuteronomy 32:28-52, Luke 12:35-59, Psalm 78:56-64, Proverbs 12:24

Today is the eighth day of April, welcome to the Daily audio Bible. I am Brian and it is wonderful to be here with you today, as we reach the conclusion of the first full week of this month. And I’m glad that we could do this together as we gather around the Global Campfire and move forward on our epic journey through the Scriptures and through the year in our lives together as we share our stories and share our lives in community. And so, our next step forward, leads us back into the book of Deuteronomy, couple more days in the book of Deuteronomy and we’ll be moving forward. Where we find ourselves today, and where were picking up is in the middle of a song, a song that the Lord told Moses to teach to the people, a song that was to stand as a witness against them because it had been told to Moses that when we got into the promised land. They were going to fall away, and that this song would stand as a remembrance, as a reminder, as a witness that they had been instructed and that they knew what they were supposed to do. And so, we’re picking up in the middle, Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 28 versus 28 through 52, today.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for another week in Your word. We thank You for this first full week in this month of April in Your word and we look back, now that we’re moving into the second quarter of the year, and we see, we see the power that is in the Scriptures, we see the way that it advises and guides and directs us, the way that it challenges us, the way that it invites us to look at things deeper. And we love You and we thank You for this gift. We thank You for the gift of one another. That we can come around this Global Campfire every day and gather together and feast upon Your word together. It’s like every day we get to have a spiritual meal together and we come around this place and have this spiritual meal, we are in it together in community, and we thank You for the gift of one another. Holy Spirit, come, lead us into all truth, transform us that we may be agents of change in this world then begins in our own hearts and spills out into our families and our communities. May we reveal your kingdom, may we reveal our relationship with you. May the light shine in the darkness. And may the light be within us. We pray in Jesus name. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Good morning, fellow DABers. This is His Little Song Bird from Hilo, Alberta. We just wanna lift up a young fella that called in today. I believe it’s April 3rd. Father God, I want to lift up Asher to You. You see his plight, every time he reads the word, Lord, he feels like, like it’s landing on rocky soil but it’s not taking root. Father, I ask that You would hear his cry, that You would bless him with good soil in his heart, Father God. That any time that he hears Your word that not only would it find good soil but the roots would go deep, deep into his spirit, Father God. And that Your word would also go deep into his remembrance. Lord, I thank You so much that he is asking for help in this area. We can lift him up to You, Father God. He’s Your child and You love him so much. And like Your word says, if a worldly father knows how to give his child good gifts, how much more would Your Heavenly Father give you good gifts. So, Lord, I ask that You would just bless this young man and just grow his heart exponentially with Your word, and fill it full. Lord, I ask that You pour Your spirit out upon him and I thank You for everything that already started to do. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

Good morning, Daily Audio Bible Family. This is KB from Florida. And I’m calling to request prayers for my friend. He got into a bad car accident last night. He wasn’t wearing his seat belt; he flew out the windshield and he was airlifted to the trauma center where he is not responding. His colon and bladder, a lot of things are damaged and he’s not breathing on his own and not. I know how good our God is miracles that he could work and I’m asking and I’m begging for you guys to pray with me and for my brother Chico, Brian, Brian is his name. We call him Chico. I just need your strength and I need your prayers. Please let him get through this. I know our God works miracles all the time. I really need, he really needs you. I don’t need you right now, he needs you right now. I just need strength to be there for him. I’m leaving work right now. Going to go see him at the trauma center, where they say that he’s on life support. And I know our God is gonna make a way. But I need your prayers. Please and thank you.

Hey, Daily Audio Bible brother and sisters. My name is Civil Sheik, I’m calling from Hawaii to ask prayers for my family. Me and my seven children and my wife. We’re really in a hard financial situation. And twelve years, right now, we don’t have __ we don’t have house, we don’t have hot water, really suffering on our lock. We need the hands of God to help us. We need the hands of God to give us some blessing. Please, brothers and sisters, help us in prayer to God, for help us and give us some financial situation help. In the name of Jesus. Thank you very much. Have a nice day.

Hey DAB Family. Kathy from Western New York here. I have an urgent prayer request. It’s a heartbreaking one. But my friend, my dear, dear friend Kim lost her husband to COVID last year. He was 60. And she’s 58. Her oldest son has been struggling with mental health issues for years. And he has been in a rough stage for the past 6 weeks. And in his great need, he drove down to El Paso, Texas and confronted Homeland Security with an altercation. And he’s gone. So, I ask you to please pray for my friend Kim and this young mans brother, younger brother, and his grandparents and his aunt and the rest of his family because they were very, very close. And I just know that this family is amazing. And she’s a believer, Kim is a believer. And she’s leaning on the Lord, but she is so broken. And she desperately needs all of us DAB Family to pray for her and shore her up and stand in the gap with her. Thank you, I love you all, I pray for you each and every day as I listen to the prayers. Bye.

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The Daily Audio Bible Reading for Saturday April 8, 2023 (NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:28-52

28 Israel is a nation lacking sense
with no understanding at all.(A)
29 If only they were wise, they would comprehend this;
they would understand their fate.
30 How could one pursue a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,(B)
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up?(C)
31 But their “rock” is not like our Rock,
as even our enemies concede.
32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom
and from the fields of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poisonous;
their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is serpents’ venom,
the deadly poison of cobras.(D)

34 “Is it not stored up with me,
sealed up in my vaults?
35 Vengeance and retribution belong to me.[a](E)
In time their foot will slip,
for their day of disaster is near,
and their doom is coming quickly.”
36 The Lord will indeed vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants(F)
when he sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.[b]
37 He will say, “Where are their gods,
the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings?
Let them rise up and help you;
let it[c] be a shelter for you.
39 See now that I alone am he;
there is no God but me.(G)
I bring death and I give life;
I wound and I heal.
No one can rescue anyone from my power.(H)
40 I raise my hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,
41 when I sharpen my flashing sword,
and my hand takes hold of judgment,
I will take vengeance on my adversaries
and repay those who hate me.
42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood
while my sword devours flesh—
the blood of the slain and the captives,
the heads of the enemy leaders.”[d]

43 Rejoice, you nations, concerning his people,[e](I)
for he will avenge the blood of his servants.[f]
He will take vengeance on his adversaries;[g](J)
he will purify his land and his people.[h]

44 Moses came with Joshua[i] son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people. 45 After Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel, 46 he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today,(K) so that you may command your children to follow all the words of this law carefully.(L) 47 For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life,(M) and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Moses’s Impending Death

48 On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,(N) 49 “Go up Mount Nebo(O) in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession. 50 Then you will die on the mountain that you go up, and you will be gathered to your people,(P) just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.(Q) 51 For both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the Waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat me as holy in their presence. 52 Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”(R)

Footnotes:

  1. 32:35 MT; LXX, reads On a day of vengeance I will repay.
  2. 32:36 Or left—even the weak and impaired; Hb obscure
  3. 32:38 Sam, LXX, Tg, Vg read them
  4. 32:42 Or the long-haired heads of the enemy
  5. 32:43 LXX reads Rejoice, you heavens, along with him, and let all the sons of God worship him; rejoice, you nations, with his people, and let all the angels of God strengthen themselves in him; DSS read Rejoice, you heavens, along with him, and let all the angels worship him; Heb 1:6
  6. 32:43 DSS, LXX read sons
  7. 32:43 DSS, LXX add and he will repay those who hate him; v. 41
  8. 32:43 Syr, Tg; DSS, Sam, LXX, Vg read his people’s land
  9. 32:44 LXX, Syr, Vg; MT reads Hoshea; Nm 13:8,16

Cross references:

  1. 32:28 : Is 44:19; Jr 29:7
  2. 32:30 : Lv 26:36
  3. 32:30 : Ps 127:1; Lm 3:37; Mk 13:20
  4. 32:33 : Jb 20:14
  5. 32:35 : 1Sm 24:12; 2Sm 22:48; Jr 11:20; 51:36; Nah 1:2; Rm 12:19; Heb 10:30
  6. 32:36 : Ps 135:14
  7. 32:39 : Is 40:25; 43:11–13; 46:9; Ezk 36:23
  8. 32:39 : Dt 30:15,19; 1Sm 2:6–8; 4:8; Jr 21:8; Hs 2:10
  9. 32:43 : Rm 15:10
  10. 32:43 : Ps 79:10; Jr 46:10; Mc 5:15; Nah 1:2
  11. 32:46 : Dt 11:18; Ezk 3:10; Mal 2:2
  12. 32:46 : Dt 29:29; 31:12
  13. 32:47 : Dt 30:20; Pr 4:13
  14. 32:48–51 : Nm 27:12–14
  15. 32:49 : Dt 34:1
  16. 32:50 : Gn 25:8,17; 35:29; 49:33; Nm 27:13; 31:2
  17. 32:50 : Nm 20:22–29
  18. 32:51–52 : Nm 20:2–13
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Luke 12:35-59

Ready for the Master’s Return

35 “Be ready for service[a] and have your lamps lit.(A) 36 You are to be like people waiting for their master(B) to return from the wedding banquet(C) so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.(D) 37 Blessed will be those servants the master finds alert(E) when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will get ready,[b] have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.(F) 38 If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn,[c] and finds them alert, blessed are those servants. 39 But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming,(G) he would not have let his house be broken into. 40 You also be ready,(H) because the Son of Man(I) is coming at an hour you do not expect.”(J)

Rewards and Punishment

41 “Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”

42 The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager(K) his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food(L) at the proper time? 43 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes. 44 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’(M) and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk, 46 that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces[d] and assign him a place with the unfaithful.[e] 47 And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it[f] will be severely beaten.(N) 48 But the one who did not know and did what deserved(O) punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected.[g](P)

Not Peace but Division

49 “I came(Q) to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already set ablaze! 50 But I have a baptism to undergo,(R) and how it consumes(S) me until it is finished!(T) 51 Do you think that I came here to bring peace on the earth?(U) No, I tell you, but rather division. 52 From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.

53 They will be divided, father against son,
son against father,
mother against daughter,
daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law,
and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”[h](V)

Interpreting the Time

54 He also said to the crowds,(W) “When you see a cloud rising in the west, right away you say, ‘A storm is coming,’ and so it does.(X) 55 And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be hot,’ and it is. 56 Hypocrites!(Y) You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why don’t you know how to interpret this present time?(Z)

Settling Accounts

57 “Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?(AA) 58 As you are going with your adversary(AB) to the ruler, make an effort to settle with him on the way. Then he won’t drag you before the judge,(AC) the judge hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff throw you into prison.(AD) 59 I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid the last penny.”[i](AE)

Footnotes:

  1. 12:35 Lit “Let your loins be girded; an idiom for tying up loose outer clothing in preparation for action; Ex 12:11
  2. 12:37 Lit will gird himself
  3. 12:38 Lit even in the second or third watch
  4. 12:46 Lit him in two
  5. 12:46 Or unbelievers
  6. 12:47 Lit or do toward his will,
  7. 12:48 Or much
  8. 12:53 Mc 7:6
  9. 12:59 Gk lepton, the smallest and least valuable copper coin in use

Cross references:

  1. 12:35–48 : Mt 24:42–51; 25:1–13; Mk 13:33–37; Jn 13:4–5
  2. 12:36 : 2Pt 3:12
  3. 12:36 : Jn 2:1
  4. 12:36 : Rv 3:20
  5. 12:37 : Rm 13:11
  6. 12:37 : Lk 17:8; 22:27
  7. 12:39 : 1Th 5:2
  8. 12:40 : Lk 21:36
  9. 12:40 : Mk 2:10
  10. 12:40 : 1Th 5:2; 2Pt 3:10; Rv 3:3; 16:15
  11. 12:42 : Lk 16:1
  12. 12:42 : 1Tm 6:8
  13. 12:45 : 1Jn 2:28
  14. 12:47 : Dt 25:2; Jms 4:17
  15. 12:48 : Lv 5:17; Nm 15:29
  16. 12:48 : Lv 5:17; Mt 13:12; Rm 1:20; 2:14; 1Tm 1:13
  17. 12:49–53 : Mt 10:34–36; Mk 10:38
  18. 12:50 : Ac 22:16; Rm 6:3; Eph 4:5
  19. 12:50 : 2Co 5:14
  20. 12:50 : Jn 19:28; 19:30
  21. 12:51 : Lk 2:14
  22. 12:53 : Mc 7:6
  23. 12:54–56 : Mt 16:2–3
  24. 12:54 : 1Kg 18:43–44
  25. 12:56 : Lk 6:42
  26. 12:56 : Lk 20:10; 21:8,30
  27. 12:57–59 : Mt 5:25–26
  28. 12:58 : 1Pt 5:8
  29. 12:58 : 2Tm 4:8
  30. 12:58 : Pr 25:8
  31. 12:59 : Lk 21:2
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Psalm 78:56-64

56 But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep his decrees.(A)
57 They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;
they became warped like a faulty bow.(B)
58 They enraged him with their high places
and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.(C)
59 God heard and became furious;
he completely rejected Israel.(D)
60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where he resided among mankind.(E)
61 He gave up his strength to captivity
and his splendor to the hand of a foe.(F)
62 He surrendered his people to the sword
because he was enraged with his heritage.(G)
63 Fire consumed his chosen young men,
and his young women had no wedding songs.[a](H)
64 His priests fell by the sword,
and the widows could not lament.(I)

Footnotes:

  1. 78:63 Lit virgins were not praised

Cross references:

  1. 78:56 : Jdg 2:11–13
  2. 78:57 : Ezk 20:27–28; Hs 7:16
  3. 78:58 : Jdg 2:12; 1Kg 3:2; Ezk 20:28
  4. 78:59 : Dt 32:19; Ps 106:40; Am 6:8
  5. 78:60 : Jr 7:12,14; 26:6
  6. 78:61 : 1Sm 4:17
  7. 78:62 : Jdg 20:21; 1Sm 4:10
  8. 78:63 : Jr 7:34; 16:9; Lm 2:21
  9. 78:64 : Jb 27:15; Ezk 24:23
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Proverbs 12:24

24 The diligent hand will rule,
but laziness will lead to forced labor.(A)

Cross references:

  1. 12:24 : Pr 10:4; 13:4; 19:15
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