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Genesis Chapter 25

¹¹It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

¹²Now this is the history of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.

¹³These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, ¹⁴Mishma, Dumah, Massa, ¹⁵Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

¹⁶These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments: twelve princes, according to their nations.

¹⁷These are the years of the life of Ishmael: one hundred thirty-seven years. He gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people.

¹⁸They lived from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward Assyria. He lived opposite all his relatives.

¹⁹This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

²⁰Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

²¹Isaac entreated ForeverOne for his wife, because she was barren. ForeverOne was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

²²The children struggled together within her. She said, "If it be so, why do I live?" She went to inquire of ForeverOne.

²³ForeverOne said to her, "Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger." ²⁴When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

²⁵The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

²⁶After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

²⁷The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

²⁸Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

Judges Chapter 11

¹²Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" ¹³The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably." ¹⁴Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon; ¹⁵and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon, ¹⁶but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh; ¹⁷then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let me pass through your land;' but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

¹⁸Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

¹⁹Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to my place.' ²⁰But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

²¹ForeverOne, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.

²²They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

²³So now ForeverOne, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?

²⁴Won't you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whoever ForeverOne our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

²⁵Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?

²⁶While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?

²⁷I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. ForeverOne, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon." ²⁸However the king of the children of Ammon didn't listen to the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

²⁹Then the Spirit of ForeverOne came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.

³⁰Jephthah vowed a vow to ForeverOne, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand, ³¹then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be ForeverOne's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering." ³²So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and ForeverOne delivered them into his hand.

³³He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

1 Chronicles Chapter 22

⁶Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

⁷David said to Solomon his son, "As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of ForeverOne my God.

⁸But the word of ForeverOne came to me, saying, 'You have shed blood abundantly, and have made great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed much blood on the earth in my sight.

⁹Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.

¹⁰He shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.' ¹¹Now, my son, may ForeverOne be with you and prosper you, and build the house of ForeverOne your God, as he has spoken concerning you.

¹²May ForeverOne give you discretion and understanding, and put you in charge of Israel; that so you may keep the law of ForeverOne your God.

¹³Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which ForeverOne gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong, and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.

¹⁴Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of ForeverOne one hundred thousand talents of gold, one million talents of silver, and brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance. I have also prepared timber and stone; and you may add to them.

¹⁵There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work: ¹⁶of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may ForeverOne be with you." ¹⁷David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, ¹⁸"Isn't ForeverOne your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? For he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before ForeverOne, and before his people.

¹⁹Now set your heart and your soul to seek after ForeverOne your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of ForeverOne God, to bring the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of ForeverOne."

Matthew Chapter 24

²⁹"But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; ³⁰and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

³¹He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

³²"Now from the fig tree learn this parable: When its branch has now become tender and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.

³³Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that he is near, even at the doors.

³⁴Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things are accomplished.

³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

³⁶"But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

³⁷As the days of Noah were, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

³⁸For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship, ³⁹and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all away, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

⁴⁰Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.

⁴¹Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.

⁴²So watch, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

⁴³But know this, that if the householder had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

⁴⁴Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

⁴⁵"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

⁴⁶Blessed is that servant whom his master finds doing so when he comes.

⁴⁷Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

⁴⁸But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My master is delaying his coming,' ⁴⁹and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, ⁵⁰the master of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it and in an hour when he doesn't know it, ⁵¹and will cut him in pieces and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.