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Then Jacob summoned his sons and said, "Assemble yourselves, so that I may tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.

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Gather together and listen, sons of Jacob;
Yes, listen to Israel your father.

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"Reuben, you are my firstborn,
My might and the beginning of my strength,
Preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.

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Uncontrollable as water, you shall not have preeminence,
Because you went up to your father's bed;
Then you defiled it--he went up to my couch.

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the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

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And why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the LORD has given them?

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This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

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If, however, the land of your possession is unclean, then cross into the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD's tabernacle stands, and settle among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD, or rebel against us, by building an altar for yourselves besides the altar of the LORD our God.

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"Therefore we said, 'Let's build an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;

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rather, it shall be a witness between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to perform the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, so that your sons will not say to our sons in time to come, "You have no portion in the LORD."'

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And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
As was Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed at his heels;
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great determinations of heart.

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Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,
To hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.

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"Simeon and Levi are brothers;
Their swords are implements of violence.

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May my soul not enter into their council;
May my glory not be united with their assembly;
For in their anger they killed men,
And in their self-will they lamed oxen.

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Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce;
And their wrath, for it is cruel.
I will scatter them in Jacob,
And disperse them among Israel.

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But he was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.

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Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

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The young man did not delay to do this, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

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So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the people of their city, saying,

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Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their descendants by their families, by their fathers' households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go to war,

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their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

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The sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

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The sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

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So they had in their inheritance Beersheba or Sheba and Moladah,

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Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation and took a spear in his hand,

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and he went after the man of Israel into the inner room of the tent and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman, through the abdomen. So the plague on the sons of Israel was brought to a halt.

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Now the name of the dead man of Israel who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salu, a leader of a father's household among the Simeonites.

and they *cried out with a loud voice, saying,
"Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."

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And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

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Of Levi he said,
"Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man,
Whom You tested at Massah,
With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;

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Who said of his father and his mother,
'I did not consider them';
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For they kept Your word,
And complied with Your covenant.

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They will teach Your ordinances to Jacob,
And Your Law to Israel.
They shall put incense before You,
And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

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LORD, bless his strength,
And accept the work of his hands;
Smash the hips of those who rise up against him,
And those who hate him, so that they do not rise again."

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"As for you, Judah, your brothers shall praise you;
Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;
Your father's sons shall bow down to you.

and his army, their numbered men: 74,600.

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Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the leader of the sons of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar,

and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of Simeon,

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and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.

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Previously, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and in. And the LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be a leader over Israel.'"

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years.

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At Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

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Do all things without complaining or arguments;

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so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world,

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holding firmly the word of life, so that on the day of Christ I can take pride because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

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Judah is a lion's cub;
From the prey, my son, you have gone up.
He crouches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares to stir him up?

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And this was regarding Judah; so he said:
"Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah,
And bring him to his people.
With his hands he contended for them,
And may You be a help against his adversaries."

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And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

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When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

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The scepter will not depart from Judah,
Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh comes,
And to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

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And in this way I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already known by name, so that I would not build on another person's foundation;

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but just as it is written:
"They who have not been told about Him will see,
And they who have not heard will understand."

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He ties his foal to the vine,
And his donkey's colt to the choice vine;
He washes his garments in wine,
And his robes in the blood of grapes.

and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their cloaks on them; and He sat on the cloaks.

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Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

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Now the crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
"Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest!"

And the crowds were saying, "This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee."Cleansing the Temple

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And Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

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Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;

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these people then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and were making a request of him, saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus."

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For where there is a covenant, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

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For a covenant is valid only when people are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

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And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant in My blood.

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And He *came to the disciples and *found them sleeping, and He *said to Peter, "So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?

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I looked, but there was no one to help,
And I was astonished and there was no one to uphold;
So My own arm brought salvation to Me,
And My wrath upheld Me.

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I trampled down the peoples in My anger
And made them drunk with My wrath,
And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."God's Ancient Mercies Recalled

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I will make mention of the mercies of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD,
According to all that the LORD has granted us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has granted them according to His compassion
And according to the abundance of His mercies.

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For He said, "Certainly they are My people,
Sons who will not deal falsely."
So He became their Savior.

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In all their distress He was distressed,
And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

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And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone.

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His eyes are dull from wine,
And his teeth white from milk.

and his army, their numbered men: 74,600.

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Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar; and the leader of the sons of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar,

and Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai over the tribal army of the sons of Simeon,

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and Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the tribal army of the sons of Gad.

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The LORD said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have handed the land over to him."

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Then Judah said to his brother Simeon, "Go up with me into the territory allotted me, and let's fight the Canaanites; and I in turn will go with you into the territory allotted you." So Simeon went with him.

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from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

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from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

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But Samuel said, "How can I go? When Saul hears about it, he will kill me." But the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'

Then one of the young men responded and said, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a valiant mighty man, a warrior, skillful in speech, and a handsome man; and the LORD is with him."

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So Saul sent messengers to Jesse to say, "Send me your son David, who is with the flock."

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty years.

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At Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

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Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

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And David said on that day, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites is to reach those who limp and those who are blind, who are hated by David's soul, through the water tunnel." For that reason they say, "People who are blind and people who limp shall not come into the house."

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In accordance with all these words and all of this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.David's Prayer

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Then David the king came in and sat before the LORD, and he said, "Who am I, Lord God, and who are the members of my household, that You have brought me this far?

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And yet this was insignificant in Your eyes, Lord God, for You have spoken also of the house of Your servant regarding the distant future. And this is the custom of mankind, Lord God.

For this reason You are great, Lord God; for there is no one like You, and there is no God except You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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And what one nation on the earth is like Your people Israel, whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, and to make a name for Himself, and to do a great thing for You and awesome things for Your land, because of Your people whom You have redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, from other nations and their gods?

And at the beginning of their living there, they did not fear the LORD; therefore the LORD sent lions among them that were killing some of them.

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So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations whom you have taken into exile and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the God of the land; so He has sent lions among them, and behold, they are killing them because they do not know the custom of the God of the land."

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Abraham fathered Isaac, Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

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So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the deportation to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah, fourteen generations.Conception and Birth of Jesus

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Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah was as follows: when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

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"Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they shall name Him Immanuel," which translated means, "God with us."

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"Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him."

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After hearing the king, they went on their way; and behold, the star, which they had seen in the east, went on ahead of them until it came to a stop over the place where the Child was to be found.

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When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.

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And He will arise and shepherd His flock
In the strength of the LORD,
In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God.
And they will remain,
Because at that time He will be great
To the ends of the earth.

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This One will be our peace.
When the Assyrian invades our land,
When he tramples on our citadels,
Then we will raise against him
Seven shepherds and eight leaders of people.

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They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
The land of Nimrod at its entrances;
And He will rescue us from the Assyrian
When he invades our land,
And when he tramples our territory.

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And to the extent that it was not without an oath

and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their cloaks on them; and He sat on the cloaks.

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Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

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Now the crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were shouting,
"Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is the One who comes in the name of the Lord;
Hosanna in the highest!"

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And those who were blind and those who limped came to Him in the temple area, and He healed them.

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But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple area, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant,

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and they said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus *said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'From the mouths of infants and nursing babies You have prepared praise for Yourself'?"

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And He came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne.

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When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and all around as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

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And in this way I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already known by name, so that I would not build on another person's foundation;

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but just as it is written:
"They who have not been told about Him will see,
And they who have not heard will understand."

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"Zebulun will reside at the seashore;
And he shall be a harbor for ships,
And his flank shall be toward Sidon.

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The people who walk in darkness
Will see a great light;
Those who live in a dark land,
The light will shine on them.

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You will multiply the nation,
You will increase their joy;
They will rejoice in Your presence
As with the joy of harvest,
As people rejoice when they divide the spoils.

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For You will break the yoke of their burden and the staff on their shoulders,
The rod of their oppressor, as at the battle of Midian.

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For every boot of the marching warrior in the roar of battle,
And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

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Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them.

Jesus was going about in all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

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And the news about Him spread throughout Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and severe pain, demon-possessed, people with epilepsy, and people who were paralyzed; and He healed them.

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Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

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And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
As was Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed at his heels;
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great determinations of heart.

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Why did you sit among the sheepfolds,
To hear the piping for the flocks?
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great searchings of heart.

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Zebulun was a people who risked their lives,
And Naphtali too, on the high places of the field.

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She said, "I will certainly go with you; however, the fame shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Then Deborah said to Barak, "Arise! For this is the day on which the LORD has handed Sisera over to you; behold, the LORD has gone out before you." So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

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And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the LORD.

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They stood at their stations following their custom, according to the Law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood which they received from the hand of the Levites.

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All the assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the strangers who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah.

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"Issachar is a strong donkey,
Lying down between the sheepfolds.

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When he saw that a resting place was good
And that the land was pleasant,
He bowed his shoulder to carry burdens,
And became a slave at forced labor.

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Of Zebulun he said,
"Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out,
And, Issachar, in your tents.

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They will call peoples to the mountain;
There they will offer righteous sacrifices;
For they will draw out the abundance of the seas,
And the hidden treasures of the sand."

Anyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city, the dogs will eat; and anyone belonging to him who dies in the field, the birds of the sky will eat."

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Now as for the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?The Israelite Kings

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And the people who were camped heard it being said, "Zimri has conspired and has also struck and killed the king!" Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

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Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

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When Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over himself with fire, and died,

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"Dan shall judge his people,
As one of the tribes of Israel.

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Dan shall be a serpent in the way,
A horned viper in the path,
That bites the horse's heels,
So that its rider falls backward.

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For Your salvation I wait, LORD.

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"As for Gad, a band of raiders shall attack him,
But he will attack at their heels.

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"As for Asher, his food shall be rich,
And he will yield royal delicacies.

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"Naphtali is a doe let loose;
He utters beautiful words.

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"Joseph is a fruitful branch,
A fruitful branch by a spring;
Its branches hang over a wall.

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The archers provoked him,
And shot at him and were hostile toward him;

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But his bow remained firm,
And his arms were agile,
From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
(From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

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From the God of your father who helps you,
And by the Almighty who blesses you
With blessings of heaven above,
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

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The blessings of your father
Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors
Up to the furthest boundary of the everlasting hills;
May they be on the head of Joseph,
And on the top of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

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"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoils."

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All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.Jacob Dies

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Then he commanded them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

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in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

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There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah--

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the field and the cave that is in it, purchased from the sons of Heth."

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When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

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And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head."

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But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."

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So he blessed them that day, saying,
"By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying,
'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!'"
And so he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

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And I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."

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When it was told to Jacob, "Behold, your son Joseph has come to you," Israel collected his strength and sat up in the bed.

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Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)."

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And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel's left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel's right, and brought them close to him.

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And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head."

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But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations."

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So he blessed them that day, saying,
"By you Israel will pronounce blessing, saying,
'May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh!'"
And so he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

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And I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow."