2 Chronicles 2

• 1. Solomon gave orders to build a temple for the Name of the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
• 2. He conscripted seventy thousand men as carriers and eighty thousand as stonecutters in the hills and thirty-six hundred as foremen over them.
• 3. Solomon sent this message to Hiram king of Tyre: "Send me cedar logs as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.
• 4. Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
• 5. "The temple I am going to build will be great, because our God is greater than all other gods.
• 6. But who is able to build a temple for him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain him? Who then am I to build a temple for him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before him?
• 7. "Send me, therefore, a man skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, and in purple, crimson and blue yarn, and experienced in the art of engraving, to work in Judah and Jerusalem with my skilled craftsmen, whom my father David provided.
• 8. "Send me also cedar, pine and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your men are skilled in cutting timber there. My men will work with yours
• 9. to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent.
• 10. I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil."
• 11. Hiram king of Tyre replied by letter to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king."
• 12. And Hiram added: "Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, who made heaven and earth! He has given King David a wise son, endowed with intelligence and discernment, who will build a temple for the LORD and a palace for himself.
• 13. "I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill,
• 14. whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my Lord, David your father.
• 15. "Now let my Lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised,
• 16. and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them in rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem."
• 17. Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600.
• 18. He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working.

1 John 2

• 1. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.
• 2. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
• 3. We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands.
• 4. The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 5. But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:
• 6. Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.
• 7. Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
• 8. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
• 9. Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.
• 10. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
• 11. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
• 12. I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.
• 13. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
• 14. I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
• 15. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• 16. For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.
• 17. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
• 18. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
• 19. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
• 20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
• 21. I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
• 22. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son.
• 23. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
• 24. See that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.
• 25. And this is what he promised us--even eternal life.
• 26. I am writing these things to you about those who are trying to lead you astray.
• 27. As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit--just as it has taught you, remain in him.
• 28. And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming.
• 29. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

Nahum 1

• 1. An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• 2. The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on his foes and maintains his wrath against his enemies.
• 3. The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
• 4. He rebukes the sea and dries it up; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither and the blossoms of Lebanon fade.
• 5. The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live in it.
• 6. Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; the rocks are shattered before him.
• 7. The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,
• 8. but with an overwhelming flood he will make an end of Nineveh; he will pursue his foes into darkness.
• 9. Whatever they plot against the LORD he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time.
• 10. They will be entangled among thorns and drunk from their wine; they will be consumed like dry stubble.
• 11. From you, O Nineveh, has one come forth who plots evil against the LORD and counsels wickedness.
• 12. This is what the LORD says: "Although they have allies and are numerous, they will be cut off and pass away. Although I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no more.
• 13. Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away."
• 14. The LORD has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: "You will have no descendants to bear your name. I will destroy the carved images and cast idols that are in the temple of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile."
• 15. Look, there on the mountains, the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace! Celebrate your festivals, O Judah, and fulfill your vows. No more will the wicked invade you; they will be completely destroyed.

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