Nov.
23
Jeremiah
42-45
Jer
42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the
least even to the greatest, came near,
Jer
42:2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our
supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your
God, even for all this remnant; for we are left but a few of many, as
your eyes do see us:
Jer
42:3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should
walk, and the thing that we should do.
Jer
42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you;
behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and
it shall happen that whatever thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will
declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from you.
Jer
42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful
witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which
Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
Jer
42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the
voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well
with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.
Jer
42:7 It happened after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to
Jeremiah.
Jer
42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains
of the forces who were with him, and all the people from the least
even to the greatest,
Jer
42:9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom
you sent me to present your supplication before him:
Jer
42:10 If you will still abide in this land, then will I build you,
and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up;
for I grieve over the distress that I have brought on you.
Jer
42:11 Don't be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are
afraid; don't be afraid of him, says Yahweh: for I am with you to
save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
Jer
42:12 I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy on you, and
cause you to return to your own land.
Jer
42:13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you
don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
Jer
42:14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we
shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger
of bread; and there will we dwell:
Jer
42:15 now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah:
Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, If you indeed set your
faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Jer
42:16 then it shall happen, that the sword, which you fear, shall
overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which
you are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there
you shall die.
Jer
42:17 So shall it be with all the men who set their faces to go into
Egypt to sojourn there: they shall die by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from
the evil that I will bring on them.
Jer
42:18 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: As my anger
and my wrath has been poured forth on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
so shall my wrath be poured forth on you, when you shall enter into
Egypt; and you shall be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and
a curse, and a reproach; and you shall see this place no more.
Jer
42:19 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, remnant of Judah, Don't you
go into Egypt: know certainly that I have testified to you this day.
Jer
42:20 For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you
sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God;
and according to all that Yahweh our God shall say, so declare to us,
and we will do it:
Jer
42:21 and I have this day declared it to you; but you have not
obeyed the voice of Yahweh your God in anything for which he has sent
me to you.
Jer
42:22 Now therefore know certainly that you shall die by the sword,
by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place where you desire
to go to sojourn there.
Jer
43:1 It happened that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to
all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh
their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
Jer
43:2 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of
Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely:
Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt
to sojourn there;
Jer
43:3 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver
us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and
carry us away captive to Babylon.
Jer
43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, and all the people, didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, to dwell
in the land of Judah.
Jer
43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the
forces, took all the remnant of Judah, who were returned from all the
nations where they had been driven, to sojourn in the land of Judah;
Jer
43:6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's
daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard
had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and
Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
Jer
43:7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they didn't obey the
voice of Yahweh: and they came to Tahpanhes.
Jer
43:8 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
Jer
43:9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the
brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in
the sight of the men of Judah;
Jer
43:10 and tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my
servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden;
and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
Jer
43:11 He shall come, and shall strike the land of Egypt; such as are
for death shall be given
to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are
for the sword to the sword.
Jer
43:12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and
he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment;
and he shall go forth from there in peace.
Jer
43:13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in
the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn
with fire.
Jer
44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who
lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes,
and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
Jer
44:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen
all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities
of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man
dwells therein,
Jer
44:3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and
to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you,
nor your fathers.
Jer
44:4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up
early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing
that I hate.
Jer
44:5 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from
their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
Jer
44:6 Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was
kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and
they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.
Jer
44:7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of
Israel: Why commit you this
great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman,
infant and suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none
remaining;
Jer
44:8 in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands,
burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are
gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse
and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer
44:9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the
wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives,
and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they
committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer
44:10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they
feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before
you and before your fathers.
Jer
44:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel:
Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all
Judah.
Jer
44:12 I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to
go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be
consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be
consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the
least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they
shall be an object of horror, and
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jer
44:13 For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I
have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence;
Jer
44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the
land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return
into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to
dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
Jer
44:15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to
other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even
all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered
Jeremiah, saying,
Jer
44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of
Yahweh, we will not listen to you.
Jer
44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth
out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to
pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers,
our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw
no evil.
Jer
44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky,
and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things,
and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jer
44:19 When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out
drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and
pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
Jer
44:20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the
women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,
Jer
44:21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your
princes, and the people of the land, didn't Yahweh remember them, and
didn't it come into his mind?
Jer
44:22 so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of
your doings, and because of the abominations which you have
committed; therefore is your land become a desolation, and an
astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
Jer
44:23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned
against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked
in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore
this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.
Jer
44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the
women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of
Egypt:
Jer
44:25 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and
your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands
have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we
have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out
drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your
vows.
Jer
44:26 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the
land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh,
that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah
in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.
Jer
44:27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all
the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by
the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Jer
44:28 Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of
Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of
Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall
know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Jer
44:29 This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish
you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand
against you for evil:
Jer
44:30 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of
Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who
seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his
life.
Jer
45:1 The message that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son
of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of
Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah, saying,
Jer
45:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, Baruch:
Jer
45:3 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my
pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
Jer
45:4 You shall tell him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have
built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck
up; and this in the whole land.
Jer
45:5 Seek you great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for,
behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life
will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
Nov. 23
Hebrews 9
Heb 9:1 Now indeed even
the first covenant had ordinances of divine service, and an earthly
sanctuary.
Heb 9:2 For a
tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the
table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
Heb 9:3 After the
second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,
Heb 9:4 having a golden
altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides
with gold, in which was a golden pot holding the manna, Aaron's rod
that budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
Heb 9:5 and above it
cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we
can't speak now in detail.
Heb 9:6 Now these
things having been thus prepared, the priests go in continually into
the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services,
Heb 9:7 but into the
second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood,
which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.
Heb 9:8 The Holy Spirit
is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn't yet
revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
Heb 9:9 which is a
symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered
that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the
worshipper perfect;
Heb 9:10 being only
(with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances,
imposed until a time of reformation.
Heb 9:11 But Christ
having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the
greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to
say, not of this creation,
Heb 9:12 nor yet
through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood,
entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal
redemption.
Heb 9:13 For if the
blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those
who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
Heb 9:14 how much more
will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead
works to serve the living God?
Heb 9:15 For this
reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has
occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the
first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the
promise of the eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:16 For where a
last will and testament is, there must of necessity be the death of
him who made it.
Heb 9:17 For a will is
in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while
he who made it lives.
Heb 9:18 Therefore even
the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
Heb 9:19 For when every
commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to
the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water
and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and
all the people,
Heb 9:20 saying, "This
is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."
Heb 9:21 Moreover he
sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in like
manner with the blood.
Heb 9:22 According to
the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from
shedding of blood there is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was
necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens
should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves
with better sacrifices than these.
Heb 9:24 For Christ
hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are
representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in
the presence of God for us;
Heb 9:25 nor yet that
he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the
holy place year by year with blood not his own,
Heb 9:26 or else he
must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now
once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by
the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27 Inasmuch as it
is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,
Heb 9:28 so Christ
also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear
a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him
for salvation.