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Authors: Tyndale
What a shame—yes, how stupid!—to decide before knowing the facts!
July 5These are the earliest generations of mankind:
*
Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah,
Shem, Ham,
and
Japheth.
5-9
The sons of
Japheth
*
were:
Gomer,
Magog, Madai,
Javan,
Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
The sons of
Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.
The sons of
Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
The sons of
Ham:
Cush, Mizraim, Canaan,
and Put.
The sons of
Cush
were: Seba, Havilah, Sabta,
Raama,
and Sabteca.
The sons of
Raama
were Sheba and Dedan.
10
Another of the sons of
Cush
was Nimrod, who became a great hero.
11-12
The clans named after the sons of
Mizraim
were: the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, the Pathrusim, the Caphtorim, and the Casluhim (the ancestors of the Philistines).
13-16
Among
Canaan’s
sons were: Sidon (his firstborn) and Heth.
Canaan
was also the ancestor of the Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, and Hamathites.
17
The sons of
Shem:
Elam, Asshur,
Arpachshad,
Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
18
Arpachshad’s
son was
Shelah,
and
Shelah’s
son was
Eber.
19
Eber
had two sons: Peleg (which means “Divided,” for it was during his lifetime that the people of the earth were divided into different language groups) and
Joktan.
20-23
The sons of
Joktan:
Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab.
24-27
So the son
*
of
Shem
was
Arpachshad,
the son of Arpachshad was
Shelah,
the son of Shelah was
Eber,
the son of Eber was Peleg, the son of Peleg was Reu, the son of Reu was Serug, the son of Serug was Nahor, the son of Nahor was Terah, the son of Terah was Abram (later known as
Abraham
).
28-31
Abraham’s
sons were
Isaac
and
Ishmael.
The sons of
Ishmael:
Nebaioth (the oldest), Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
32
Abraham also had sons by his concubine Keturah: Zimram,
Jokshan,
Medan,
Midian,
Ishbak, and Shuah.
Jokshan’s
sons were Sheba and Dedan.
33
The sons of
Midian:
Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. These were the descendants of Abraham by his concubine Keturah.
34
Abraham’s son
Isaac
had two sons,
Esau
and
Israel.
35
The sons of
Esau:
Eliphaz, Reuel,
Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
36
The sons of
Eliphaz:
Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek.
37
The sons of
Reuel:
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
38-39
The sons of
Esau
*
also included
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer,
and
Dishan;
and Esau’s daughter was named Timna.
Lotan’s
sons: Hori and Homam.
40
The sons of
Shobal:
Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam.
Zibeon’s
sons were Aiah and
Anah.
41
Anah’s
son was
Dishon.
The sons of
Dishon:
Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
42
The sons of
Ezer:
Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan.
Dishan’s
sons were Uz and Aran.
43
Here is a list of the names of the kings of Edom who reigned before the kingdom of Israel began:
Bela (the son of Beor), who lived in the city of Dinhabah.
44
When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah became the new king.
45
When Jobab died, Husham from the country of the Temanites became the king.
46
When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad—the one who destroyed the army of Midian in the fields of Moab—became king and ruled from the city of Avith.
47
When Hadad died, Samlah from the city of Masrekah came to the throne.
48
When Samlah died, Shaul from the river town of Rehoboth became the new king.
49
When Shaul died, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor became king.
50
When Baal-hanan died, Hadad became king and ruled from the city of Pai (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab).
51-54
At the time of Hadad’s death, the kings of Edom were: Chief Timna, Chief Aliah, Chief Jetheth, Chief Oholibamah, Chief Elah, Chief Pinon, Chief Kenaz, Chief Teman, Chief Mibzar, Chief Magdiel, Chief Iram.
2:
1-2
The sons of
Israel
were: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, Asher.
3
Judah had three sons by Bathshua, a girl from Canaan:
Er,
Onan, and Shelah. But the oldest son,
Er,
was so wicked that the Lord killed him.
4
Then Er’s widow, Tamar, and her father-in-law, Judah, became the parents of twin sons,
Perez
and
Zerah.
So Judah had five sons.
5
The sons of
Perez
were
Hezron
and Hamul.
6
The sons of
Zerah
were: Zimri,
Ethan,
Heman, Calcol, and Dara.
7
(Achan, the son of Carmi, was the man who robbed God and was such a troublemaker for his nation.)
8
Ethan’s
son was Azariah.
9
The sons of
Hezron
were
Jerahmeel,
Ram, and Chelubai.
10
Ram was the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, a leader of Israel.
11
Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz.
12
Boaz was the father of Obed, and Obed was the father of
Jesse.
13
Jesse’s
first son was Eliab, his second was Abinadab, his third was Shimea,
14
his fourth was Nethanel, his fifth was Raddai,
15
his sixth was Ozem, and his seventh was David.
16
He also had two girls (by the same wife) named
Zeruiah
and
Abigail.
Zeruiah’s
sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel.
17
Abigail,
whose husband was Jether from the land of Ishmael, had a son named Amasa.
That night the Lord stood beside Paul and said,
“Don’t worry, Paul; just as you have told the people about me here in Jerusalem, so you must also in Rome.”
12-13
The next morning some forty or more of the Jews got together and bound themselves by a curse neither to eat nor drink until they had killed Paul!
14
Then they went to the chief priests and elders and told them what they had done.
15
“Ask the commander to bring Paul back to the Council again,” they requested. “Pretend you want to ask a few more questions. We will kill him on the way.”
16
But Paul’s nephew got wind of their plan and came to the armory and told Paul.
17
Paul called one of the officers and said, “Take this boy to the commander. He has something important to tell him.”
18
So the officer did, explaining, “Paul, the prisoner, called me over and asked me to bring this young man to you to tell you something.”
19
The commander took the boy by the hand, and leading him aside asked, “What is it you want to tell me, lad?”
20
“Tomorrow,” he told him, “the Jews are going to ask you to bring Paul before the Council again, pretending they want to get some more information.
21
But don’t do it! There are more than forty men hiding along the road ready to jump him and kill him. They have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink till he is dead. They are out there now, expecting you to agree to their request.”
22
“Don’t let a soul know you told me this,” the commander warned the boy as he left.
23-24
Then the commander called two of his officers and ordered, “Get 200 soldiers ready to leave for Caesarea at nine o’clock tonight! Take 200 spearmen and 70 mounted cavalry. Give Paul a horse to ride and get him safely to Governor Felix.”
25
Then he wrote this letter to the governor:
26
“From:
Claudius Lysias
“To:
His Excellency, Governor Felix.
“Greetings!
27
“This man was seized by the Jews, and they were killing him when I sent the soldiers to rescue him, for I learned that he was a Roman citizen.
28
Then I took him to their Council to try to find out what he had done.
29
I soon discovered it was something about their Jewish beliefs, certainly nothing worthy of imprisonment or death.
30
But when I was informed of a plot to kill him, I decided to send him on to you and will tell his accusers to bring their charges before you.”
31
So that night, as ordered, the soldiers took Paul to Antipatris.
32
They returned to the armory the next morning, leaving him with the cavalry to take him on to Caesarea.
33
When they arrived in Caesarea, they presented Paul and the letter to the governor.
34
He read it and then asked Paul where he was from.
“Cilicia,” Paul answered.
35
“I will hear your case fully when your accusers arrive,” the governor told him, and ordered him kept in the prison at King Herod’s palace.
A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom
O Lord, so many are against me. So many seek to harm me. I have so many enemies.
2
So many say that God will never help me.
3
But Lord, you are my shield, my glory, and my only hope. You alone can lift my head, now bowed in shame.
*
4
I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me from his Temple in Jerusalem.
*
5
Then I lay down and slept in peace and woke up safely, for the Lord was watching over me.
6
And now, although ten thousand enemies surround me on every side, I am not afraid.
7
I will cry to him, “Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God!” And he will slap them in the face, insulting them and breaking off their teeth.
*
8
For salvation comes from God. What joys he gives to all his people.
A man’s courage
*
can sustain his broken body, but when courage dies, what hope is left?
15
The intelligent man is always open to new ideas. In fact, he looks for them.
July 6Caleb (the son of
Hezron
) had two wives,
Azubah
and Jerioth. These are the children of
Azubah:
Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.
19
After Azubah’s death, Caleb married Ephrath, who presented him with a son,
Hur.
20
Hur’s
son was
Uri,
and
Uri’s
son was Bezalel.
21
Hezron
married Machir’s daughter at the age of sixty, and she presented him with a son,
Segub.
(Machir was also the father of Gilead.)
22
Segub
was the father of Jair, who ruled
*
twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
23
But Geshur and Aram wrested these cities from him and also took Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages.
24
Soon after his father
Hezron’s
death, Caleb married Ephrathah, his father’s widow, and she gave birth to Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
25
These are the sons of
Jerahmeel
(the oldest son of
Hezron
):
Ram
(the oldest), Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
26
Jerahmeel’s
second wife Atarah was the mother of
Onam.
27
The sons of
Ram:
Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
28
Onam’s
sons were
Shammai
and Jada.
Shammai’s
sons were
Nadab
and
Abishur.
29
The sons of
Abishur
and his wife Abihail were Ahban and Molid.
30
Nadab’s
sons were
Seled
and
Appaim.
Seled
died without children,
31
but
Appaim
had a son named
Ishi;
Ishi’s
son was
Sheshan;
and
Sheshan’s
son was Ahlai.
32
Shammai’s
brother Jada had two sons,
Jether
and
Jonathan.
Jether
died without children,
33
but
Jonathan
had two sons named Peleth and Zaza.
34-35
Sheshan
*
had no sons, although he had several daughters. He gave one of his daughters to be the wife of Jarha, his Egyptian servant. And they had a son whom they named
Attai.
36
Attai’s
son was Nathan; Nathan’s son was Zabad;
37
Zabad’s son was Ephlal; Ephlal’s son was Obed;
38
Obed’s son was Jehu; Jehu’s son was Azariah;
39
Azariah’s son was Helez; Helez’s son was Eleasah;
40
Eleasah’s son was Sismai; Sismai’s son was Shallum;
41
Shallum’s son was Jekamiah; Jekamiah’s son was Elishama.
42
The oldest son of
Caleb
(
Jerahmeel’s
brother) was Mesha; he was the father of Ziph, who was father of Mareshah, who was the father of
Hebron.
43
The sons of
Hebron:
Korah, Tappuah,
Rekem,
and
Shema.
44
Shema
was the father of Raham, who was the father of Jorkeam.
Rekem
was the father of
Shammai.
45
Shammai’s
son was Maon, the father of Bethzur.
46
Caleb’s
concubine Ephah bore him
Haran,
Moza, and Gazez;
Haran
had a son named Gazez.
47
The sons of Jahdai: Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph.
48-49
Another of
Caleb’s
concubines, Maacah, bore him Sheber, Tirhanah, Shaaph (the father of Madmannah), and Sheva (the father of Machbenah and of Gibea).
Caleb
also had a daughter, whose name was Achsah.
50
The sons of Hur (who was the oldest son of
Caleb
*
and Ephrathah) were
Shobal
(the father of Kiriath-jearim),
51
Salma
(the father of Bethlehem), and Hareph (the father of Beth-gader).
52
Shobal’s
sons included
Kiriath-jearim
and Haroeh, the ancestor of half of the Menuhoth tribe.
53
The families of
Kiriath-jearim
were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites (from whom descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites).
54
The descendants of
Salma
were his son Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atrothbeth-joab, half the Manahathites, and the Zorites;
55
they also included the families of the writers living at Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. All these are Kenites who descended from Hammath, the founder of the family of Rechab.
3:
1
King David’s oldest son was Amnon, who was born to his wife, Ahinoam of Jezreel.
The second was Daniel, whose mother was Abigail from Carmel.
2
The third was Absalom, the son of his wife Maacah, who was the daughter of King Talmai of Geshur.
The fourth was Adonijah, the son of Haggith.
3
The fifth was Shephatiah, the son of Abital.
The sixth was Ithream, the son of his wife Eglah.
4
These six were born to him in Hebron, where he reigned seven and a half years. Then he moved the capital to Jerusalem, where he reigned another thirty-three years.
5
While he was in Jerusalem, his wife Bathsheba
*
(the daughter of Ammiel) became the mother of his sons Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and
Solomon.
6-8
David also had nine other sons: Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet.
9
(This list does not include the sons of his concubines.) David also had a daughter Tamar.
10-14
These are the descendants of King
Solomon:
Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram,
*
Ahaziah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon,
Josiah.
15
The sons of
Josiah
were: Johanan,
Jehoiakim,
Zedekiah, Shallum.
*
16
The sons of
Jehoiakim:
Jeconiah,
Zedekiah.
17-18
These are the sons who were born to King
Jeconiah
during the years that he was under house arrest: Shealtiel, Malchiram,
Pedaiah,
Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, Nedabiah.
19-20
Pedaiah
was the father of
Zerubbabel
and Shimei.
Zerubbabel’s
children were: Meshullam,
Hananiah,
Hashubah, Ohel, Berechiah, Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, Shelomith (a daughter).
21-22
Hananiah’s
sons were Pelatiah and Jeshaiah; Jeshaiah’s son was Rephaiah; Rephaiah’s son was Arnan; Arnan’s son was Obadiah; Obadiah’s son was Shecaniah. Shecaniah’s son was Shemaiah; Shemaiah had six sons, including Hattush, Igal, Bariah,
Neariah,
and Shaphat.
23
Neariah
had three sons:
Elioenai,
Hizkiah, Azrikam.
24
Elioenai
had seven sons: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, Anani.
4:
1
These are the sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur,
Shobal.
2
Shobal’s
son Reaiah was the father of Jahath, the ancestor of Ahumai and Lahad. These were known as the Zorathite clans.
3-4
The descendants of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, Idbash, Hazzelelponi (his daughter), Penuel (the ancestor of Gedor), Ezer (the ancestor of Hushah), the son of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, who was the father of Bethlehem.
Five days later Ananias the High Priest arrived with some of the Jewish leaders
*
and the lawyer Tertullus, to make their accusations against Paul.
2
When Tertullus was called forward, he laid charges against Paul in the following address to the governor:
“Your Excellency, you have given quietness and peace to us Jews and have greatly reduced the discrimination against us.
3
And for this we are very, very grateful to you.
4
But lest I bore you, kindly give me your attention for only a moment as I briefly outline our case against this man.
5
For we have found him to be a troublemaker, a man who is constantly inciting the Jews throughout the entire world to riots and rebellions against the Roman government. He is a ringleader of the sect known as the Nazarenes.
6
Moreover, he was trying to defile the Temple when we arrested him.
“We would have given him what he justly deserves,
7
but Lysias, the commander of the garrison, came and took him violently away from us,
8
demanding that he be tried by Roman law. You can find out the truth of our accusations by examining him yourself.”
9
Then all the other Jews chimed in, declaring that everything Tertullus said was true.
10
Now it was Paul’s turn. The governor motioned for him to rise and speak.
Paul began: “I know, sir, that you have been a judge of Jewish affairs for many years, and this gives me confidence as I make my defense.
11
You can quickly discover that it was no more than twelve days ago that I arrived in Jerusalem to worship at the Temple,
12
and you will discover that I have never incited a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of any city;
13
and these men certainly cannot prove the things they accuse me of doing.
14
“But one thing I do confess, that I believe in the way of salvation, which they refer to as a sect; I follow that system of serving the God of our ancestors; I firmly believe in the Jewish law and everything written in the books of prophecy;
15
and I believe, just as these men do, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and ungodly.
16
Because of this, I try with all my strength to always maintain a clear conscience before God and man.
17
“After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid the Jews and to offer a sacrifice to God.
18
My accusers saw me in the Temple as I was presenting my thank offering.
*
I had shaved my head as their laws required, and there was no crowd around me, and no rioting! But some Jews from Turkey were there
19
(who ought to be here if they have anything against me)—
20
but look! Ask these men right here what wrongdoing their Council found in me,
21
except that I said one thing I shouldn’t
*
when I shouted out, ‘I am here before the Council to defend myself for believing that the dead will rise again!’”
22
Felix, who knew Christians didn’t go around starting riots,
*
told the Jews to wait for the arrival of Lysias, the garrison commander, and then he would decide the case.
23
He ordered Paul to prison but instructed the guards to treat him gently and not to forbid any of his friends from visiting him or bringing him gifts to make his stay more comfortable.
24
A few days later Felix came with Drusilla, his legal wife,
*
a Jewess. Sending for Paul, they listened as he told them about faith in Christ Jesus.
25
And as he reasoned with them about righteousness and self-control and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified.
“Go away for now,” he replied, “and when I have a more convenient time, I’ll call for you again.”
26
He also hoped that Paul would bribe him, so he sent for him from time to time and talked with him.
27
Two years went by in this way; then Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And because Felix wanted to gain favor with the Jews, he left Paul in chains.