1 Chronicles 22

• 1. Then David said, "The house of the LORD God is to be here, and also the altar of burnt offering for Israel."
• 2. So David gave orders to assemble the aliens living in Israel, and from among them he appointed stonecutters to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
• 3. He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more bronze than could be weighed.
• 4. He also provided more cedar logs than could be counted, for the Sidonians and Tyrians had brought large numbers of them to David.
• 5. David said, "My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD should be of great magnificence and fame and splendor in the sight of all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for it." So David made extensive preparations before his death.
• 6. Then he called for his son Solomon and charged him to build a house for the LORD, the God of Israel.
• 7. David said to Solomon: "My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God.
• 8. But this word of the LORD came to me: 'You have shed much blood and have fought many wars. You are not to build a house for my Name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.
• 9. But you will have a son who will be a man of peace and rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side. His name will be Solomon, and I will grant Israel peace and quiet during his reign.
• 10. He is the one who will build a house for my Name. He will be my son, and I will be his father. And I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.'
• 11. "Now, my son, the LORD be with you, and may you have success and build the house of the LORD your God, as he said you would.
• 12. May the LORD give you discretion and understanding when he puts you in command over Israel, so that you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
• 13. Then you will have success if you are careful to observe the decrees and laws that the LORD gave Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
• 14. "I have taken great pains to provide for the temple of the LORD a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, quantities of bronze and iron too great to be weighed, and wood and stone. And you may add to them.
• 15. You have many workmen: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as men skilled in every kind of work
• 16. in gold and silver, bronze and iron-craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and the LORD be with you."
• 17. Then David ordered all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon.
• 18. He said to them, "Is not the LORD your God with you? And has he not granted you rest on every side? For he has handed the inhabitants of the land over to me, and the land is subject to the LORD and to his people.
• 19. Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the LORD your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD."

1 Peter 3

• 1. Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives,
• 2. when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
• 3. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.
• 4. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.
• 5. For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands,
• 6. like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear.
• 7. Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
• 8. Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble.
• 9. Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.
• 10. For, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
• 11. He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.
• 12. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
• 13. Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
• 14. But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened."
• 15. But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
• 16. keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
• 17. It is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
• 18. For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,
• 19. through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison
• 20. who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
• 21. and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• 22. who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand--with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

Micah 1

• 1. The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah-the vision he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
• 2. Hear, O peoples, all of you, listen, O earth and all who are in it, that the Sovereign LORD may witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
• 3. Look! The LORD is coming from his dwelling place; he comes down and treads the high places of the earth.
• 4. The mountains melt beneath him and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
• 5. All this is because of Jacob's transgression, because of the sins of the house of Israel. What is Jacob's transgression? Is it not Samaria? What is Judah's high place? Is it not Jerusalem?
• 6. "Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of rubble, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.
• 7. All her idols will be broken to pieces; all her temple gifts will be burned with fire; I will destroy all her images. Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes, as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used."
• 8. Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl.
• 9. For her wound is incurable; it has come to Judah. It has reached the very gate of my people, even to Jerusalem itself.
• 10. Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah roll in the dust.
• 11. Pass on in nakedness and shame, you who live in Shaphir. Those who live in Zaanan will not come out. Beth Ezel is in mourning; its protection is taken from you.
• 12. Those who live in Maroth writhe in pain, waiting for relief, because disaster has come from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
• 13. You who live in Lachish, harness the team to the chariot. You were the beginning of sin to the Daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
• 14. Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath. The town of Aczib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.
• 15. I will bring a conqueror against you who live in Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
• 16. Shave your heads in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourselves as bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile.

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