2 Chronicles 8

• 1. At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the LORD and his own palace,
• 2. Solomon rebuilt the villages that Hiram had given him, and settled Israelites in them.
• 3. Solomon then went to Hamath Zobah and captured it.
• 4. He also built up Tadmor in the desert and all the store cities he had built in Hamath.
• 5. He rebuilt Upper Beth Horon and Lower Beth Horon as fortified cities, with walls and with gates and bars,
• 6. as well as Baalath and all his store cities, and all the cities for his chariots and for his horses -whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon and throughout all the territory he ruled.
• 7. All the people left from the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites (these peoples were not Israelites),
• 8. that is, their descendants remaining in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed-these Solomon conscripted for his slave labor force, as it is to this day.
• 9. But Solomon did not make slaves of the Israelites for his work; they were his fighting men, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his chariots and charioteers.
• 10. They were also King Solomon's chief officials-two hundred and fifty officials supervising the men.
• 11. Solomon brought Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, "My wife must not live in the palace of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."
• 12. On the altar of the LORD that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the LORD,
• 13. according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons and the three annual feasts-the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles.
• 14. In keeping with the ordinance of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their duties, and the Levites to lead the praise and to assist the priests according to each day's requirement. He also appointed the gatekeepers by divisions for the various gates, because this was what David the man of God had ordered.
• 15. They did not deviate from the king's commands to the priests or to the Levites in any matter, including that of the treasuries.
• 16. All Solomon's work was carried out, from the day the foundation of the temple of the LORD was laid until its completion. So the temple of the LORD was finished.
• 17. Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and Elath on the coast of Edom.
• 18. And Hiram sent him ships commanded by his own officers, men who knew the sea. These, with Solomon's men, sailed to Ophir and brought back four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they delivered to King Solomon.

3 John 1

• 1. The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
• 2. Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.
• 3. It gave me great joy to have some brothers come and tell about your faithfulness to the truth and how you continue to walk in the truth.
• 4. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.
• 5. Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers to you.
• 6. They have told the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God.
• 7. It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans.
• 8. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth.
• 9. I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will have nothing to do with us.
• 10. So if I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, gossiping maliciously about us. Not satisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
• 11. Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
• 12. Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone--and even by the truth itself. We also speak well of him, and you know that our testimony is true.
• 13. I have much to write you, but I do not want to do so with pen and ink.
• 14. I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face. Peace to you. The friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name.

Habakkuk 3

• 1. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet. On shigionoth.
• 2. LORD, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, O LORD. Renew them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.
• 3. God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.
• 4. His splendor was like the sunrise; rays flashed from his hand, where his power was hidden.
• 5. Plague went before him; pestilence followed his steps.
• 6. He stood, and shook the earth; he looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.
• 7. I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
• 8. Were you angry with the rivers, O LORD? Was your wrath against the streams? Did you rage against the sea when you rode with your horses and your victorious chariots?
• 9. You uncovered your bow, you called for many arrows. Selah You split the earth with rivers;
• 10. the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.
• 11. Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing spear.
• 12. In wrath you strode through the earth and in anger you threshed the nations.
• 13. You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one. You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, you stripped him from head to foot. Selah
• 14. With his own spear you pierced his head when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched who were in hiding.
• 15. You trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
• 16. I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
• 17. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
• 18. yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
• 19. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.

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