The One Year Bible TLB (148 page)
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Authors: Tyndale
No, Lord! Don’t punish me in the heat of your anger.
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Pity me, O Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, for my body is sick,
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and I am upset and disturbed. My mind is filled with apprehension and with gloom. Oh, restore me soon.
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Come, O Lord, and make me well. In your kindness save me.
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For if I die, I cannot give you glory by praising you before my friends.
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I am worn out with pain; every night my pillow is wet with tears.
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My eyes are growing old and dim with grief because of all my enemies.
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Go, leave me now, you men of evil deeds, for the Lord has heard my weeping
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and my pleading. He will answer all my prayers.
10
All my enemies shall be suddenly dishonored, terror-stricken, and disgraced. God will turn them back in shame.
Ability to give wise advice satisfies like a good meal!
21
Those who love to talk will suffer the consequences. Men have died for saying the wrong thing!
July 9The sons of Issachar:
Tola,
Puah, Jashub, Shimron.
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The sons of
Tola,
each of whom was the head of a subclan:
Uzzi,
Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, Shemuel.
At the time of King David, the total number of men of war from these families was 22,600.
3
Uzzi’s
son was Izrahiah among whose five sons were Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah, all chiefs of subclans.
4
Their descendants, at the time of King David, numbered 36,000 troops; for all five of them had several wives and many sons.
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The total number of men available for military service from all the clans of the tribe of Issachar was 87,000 stouthearted warriors, all included in the official genealogy.
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The sons of Benjamin were:
Bela, Becher, Jediael.
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The sons of
Bela:
Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, Iri.
These five mighty warriors were chiefs of subclans and were the leaders of 22,034 troops (all of whom were recorded in the official genealogies).
8
The sons of
Becher
were: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, Alemeth.
9
At the time of David there were 20,200 mighty warriors among their descendants; and they were led by their clan chiefs.
10
The son of
Jediael
was
Bilhan.
The sons of
Bilhan
were: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, Ahishahar.
11
They were the chiefs of the subclans of
Jediael,
and their descendants included 17,200 warriors at the time of King David.
12
The sons of Ir were Shuppim and Huppim. Hushim was one of the sons of Aher.
13
The sons of Naphtali (descendants of Jacob’s wife
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Bilhah) were: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, Shallum.
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The sons of Manasseh, born to his Aramaean concubine, were Asriel and Machir (who became the father of Gilead).
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It was Machir who found wives for Huppim and Shuppim.
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Machir’s sister was Maacah. Another descendant was Zelophehad, who had only daughters.
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Machir’s wife, also named Maacah, bore him a son whom she named Peresh; his brother’s name was Sheresh, and he had sons named Ulam and Rakem.
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Ulam’s son was Bedan. So these were the sons of Gilead, the grandsons of Machir, and the great-grandsons of Manasseh.
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Hammolecheth, Machir’s sister, bore Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.
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The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
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The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, Bered, Tahath, Eleadah, Tahath, Zabad, Shuthelah,
Ezer, Elead.
Elead
and
Ezer
attempted to rustle cattle at Gath, but they were killed by the local farmers.
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Their father Ephraim mourned for them a long time, and his brothers tried to comfort him.
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Afterwards his wife conceived and bore a son whom he called Beriah (meaning “a tragedy”) because of what had happened.
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Ephraim’s daughter’s name was Sheerah. She built Lower and Upper Beth-horon and Uzzen-sheerah.
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This is Ephraim’s line of descent:
Rephah, the father of
Resheph, the father of
Telah, the father of
Tahan, the father of
Ladan, the father of
Ammihud, the father of
Elishama, the father of
Nun, the father of
Joshua.
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They lived in an area bounded on one side by Bethel and its surrounding towns, on the east by Naaran, on the west by Gezer and its villages, and finally by Shechem and its surrounding villages as far as Ayyah and its towns.
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The tribe of Manasseh, descendants of Joseph the son of Israel, controlled the following cities and their surrounding areas: Beth-shean, Taanach, Megiddo, and Dor.
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The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi,
Beriah,
Serah (their sister).
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The sons of
Beriah
were:
Heber,
Malchiel (the father of Birzaith).
32
Heber’s
children were:
Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham,
Shua (their sister).
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Japhlet’s
sons were: Pasach, Bimhal, Ashvath.
34
His brother
Shomer’s
*
sons were: Rohgah, Jehubbah, Aram.
35
The sons of his brother
Hotham
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were:
Zophah,
Imna, Shelesh, Amal.
36-37
The sons of
Zophah
were: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah,
Ithran,
Beera.
38
The sons of
Ithran
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were: Jephunneh, Pispa, Ara.
39
The sons of Ulla were: Arah, Hanniel, Rizia.
40
These descendants of Asher were heads of subclans and were all skilled warriors and chiefs. Their descendants in the official genealogy numbered 36,000 men of war.
8:
1-2
The sons of Benjamin, according to age, were:
Bela,
the first, Ashbel, the second, Aharah, the third, Nohah, the fourth, Rapha, the fifth.
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The sons of
Bela
were: Addar, Gera, Abihud, Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, Gera, Shephuphan, Huram.
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The sons of Ehud, chiefs of the subclans living at Geba, were captured in war and exiled to Manahath. They were: Naaman, Ahijah, Gera (also called Heglam), the father of Uzza and Ahihud.
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Shaharaim divorced his wives
Hushim
and Baara, but he had children in the land of Moab by Hodesh, his new wife: Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, Jeuz, Sachia, Mirmah.
These sons all became chiefs of subclans.
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His wife
Hushim
had borne him Abitub and
Elpaal.
12
The sons of
Elpaal
were: Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod and their surrounding villages).
13
His other sons were
Beriah
and Shema, chiefs of subclans living in Aijalon; they chased out the inhabitants of Gath.
14
Elpaal’s
sons also included: Ahio,
Shashak,
Jeremoth.
15-16
The sons of
Beriah
were: Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, Michael, Ishpah, Joha.
17-18
The sons of
Elpaal
also included: Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, Ishmerai, Izliah, Jobab.
19-21
The sons of Shimei were: Jakim, Zichri, Zabdi, Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, Adaiah, Beraiah, Shimrath.
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The sons of
Shashak
were: Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, Abdon, Zichri, Hanan, Hananiah, Elam, Anthothijah, Iphdeiah, Penuel.
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The sons of Jeroham were: Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, Jaareshiah, Elijah, Zichri.
28
These were the chiefs of the subclans living at Jerusalem.
29
Jeiel, the father of Gibeon, lived at Gibeon; and his wife’s name was Maacah.
30-32
His oldest son was named Abdon, followed by: Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, Gedor, Ahio, Zecher, Mikloth who was the father of Shimeah.
All of these families lived together near Jerusalem.
33
Ner was the father of Kish, and Kish was the father of Saul;
Saul’s sons included:
Jonathan,
Malchi-shua, Abinadab, Eshbaal.
34
The son of
Jonathan
was Mephibosheth;
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The son of Mephibosheth was Micah.
35
The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, Ahaz.
36
Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah, Jehoaddah was the father of: Alemeth, Azmaveth, Zimri. Zimri’s son was Moza.
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Moza was the father of Binea, whose sons were: Raphah, Eleasah, Azel.
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Azel had six sons: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, Hanan.
39
Azel’s brother Eshek had three sons:
Ulam,
the first, Jeush, the second, Eliphelet, the third.
40
Ulam’s
sons were prominent warriors who were expert marksmen with their bows. These men had 150 sons and grandsons, and they were all from the tribe of Benjamin.
Arrangements were finally made to start us on our way to Rome by ship; so Paul and several other prisoners were placed in the custody of an officer named Julius, a member of the imperial guard.
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We left on a boat
*
that was scheduled to make several stops along the Turkish coast. I should add that Aristarchus, a Greek from Thessalonica, was with us.
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The next day when we docked at Sidon, Julius was very kind to Paul and let him go ashore to visit with friends and receive their hospitality.
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Putting to sea from there, we encountered headwinds that made it difficult to keep the ship on course, so we sailed north of Cyprus between the island and the mainland
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5
and passed along the coast of the provinces of Cilicia and Pamphylia, landing at Myra, in the province of Lycia.
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There our officer found an Egyptian ship from Alexandria, bound for Italy, and put us aboard.
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We had several days of rough sailing, and finally neared Cnidus;
*
but the winds had become too strong, so we ran across to Crete, passing the port of Salome. Beating into the wind with great difficulty and moving slowly along the southern coast, we arrived at Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.
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There we stayed for several days. The weather was becoming dangerous for long voyages by then because it was late in the year,
*
and Paul spoke to the ship’s officers about it.
10
“Sirs,” he said, “I believe there is trouble ahead if we go on—perhaps shipwreck, loss of cargo, injuries, and death.”
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But the officers in charge of the prisoners listened more to the ship’s captain and the owner than to Paul.
12
And since Fair Havens was an exposed
*
harbor—a poor place to spend the winter—most of the crew advised trying to go further up the coast to Phoenix in order to winter there; Phoenix was a good harbor with only a northwest and southwest exposure.
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Just then a light wind began blowing from the south, and it looked like a perfect day for the trip; so they pulled up anchor and sailed along close to shore.
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But shortly afterwards the weather changed abruptly, and a heavy wind of typhoon strength (a “northeaster,” they called it) caught the ship and blew it out to sea. They tried at first to face back to shore but couldn’t, so they gave up and let the ship run before the gale.
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We finally sailed behind a small island named Clauda, where with great difficulty we hoisted aboard the lifeboat that was being towed behind us,
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and then banded the ship with ropes to strengthen the hull. The sailors were afraid of being driven across to the quicksands of the African coast,
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so they lowered the topsails and were thus driven before the wind.
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The next day as the seas grew higher, the crew began throwing the cargo overboard.
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The following day they threw out the tackle and anything else they could lay their hands on.
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The terrible storm raged unabated many days,
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until at last all hope was gone.
I am depending on you, O Lord my God, to save me from my persecutors.
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Don’t let them pounce upon me as a lion would and maul me and drag me away with no one to rescue me.
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It would be different, Lord, if I were doing evil things—
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if I were paying back evil for good or unjustly attacking those I dislike.
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Then it would be right for you to let my enemies destroy me, crush me to the ground, and trample my life in the dust.
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But Lord! Arise in anger against the anger of my enemies. Awake! Demand justice for me, Lord!
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Gather all peoples before you; sit high above them, judging their sins. But justify me publicly; establish my honor and truth before them all.
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End all wickedness, O Lord, and bless all who truly worship God;
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for you, the righteous God, look deep within the hearts of men and examine all their motives and their thoughts.
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God is my shield; he will defend me. He saves those whose hearts and lives are true and right.
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God is a judge who is perfectly fair, and he is angry with the wicked every day.
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Unless they repent, he will sharpen his sword and slay them.
He has bent and strung his bow
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and fitted it with deadly arrows made from shafts of fire.
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The wicked man conceives an evil plot, labors with its dark details, and brings to birth his treachery and lies;
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let him fall into his own trap.
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May the violence he plans for others boomerang upon himself; let him die.
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Oh, how grateful and thankful I am to the Lord because he is so good. I will sing praise to the name of the Lord who is above all lords.