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Genesis Chapter 38

¹At that time Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

²Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

³She conceived, and bore a son; and he named him Er.

⁴She conceived again, and bore a son; and she named him Onan.

⁵She yet again bore a son, and named him Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bore him.

⁶Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

⁷Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of ForeverOne. ForeverOne killed him.

⁸Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." ⁹Onan knew that the offspring wouldn't be his; and when he went in to his brother's wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

¹⁰The thing which he did was evil in the sight of ForeverOne, and he killed him also.

¹¹Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.

¹²After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.

¹³Tamar was told, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." ¹⁴She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.

1 Samuel Chapter 15

¹Samuel said to Saul, "ForeverOne sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of the words of ForeverOne.

²Thus says ForeverOne of Armies, 'I have marked what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

³Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'" ⁴Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

⁵Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.

⁶Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

⁷Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

⁸He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

⁹But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

¹⁰Then the word of ForeverOne came to Samuel, saying, ¹¹"It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments." Samuel was angry; and he cried to ForeverOne all night.

¹²Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, "Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal." ¹³Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by ForeverOne! I have performed the commandment of ForeverOne." ¹⁴Samuel said, "Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?" ¹⁵Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to ForeverOne your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest." ¹⁶Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stay, and I will tell you what ForeverOne has said to me last night." He said to him, "Say on." ¹⁷Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight, weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? ForeverOne anointed you king over Israel; ¹⁸and ForeverOne sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.' ¹⁹Then why didn't you obey the voice of ForeverOne, but took the spoils, and did what was evil in the sight of ForeverOne?" ²⁰Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the voice of ForeverOne, and have gone the way which ForeverOne sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

²¹But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief of the devoted things, to sacrifice to ForeverOne your God in Gilgal." ²²Samuel said, "Has ForeverOne as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of ForeverOne? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

²³For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of ForeverOne, he has also rejected you from being king." ²⁴Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of ForeverOne, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

²⁵Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship ForeverOne." ²⁶Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of ForeverOne, and ForeverOne has rejected you from being king over Israel." ²⁷As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul grabbed the skirt of his robe, and it tore.

²⁸Samuel said to him, "ForeverOne has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.

²⁹Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent." ³⁰Then he said, "I have sinned: yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship ForeverOne your God." ³¹So Samuel went back with Saul; and Saul worshiped ForeverOne.

2 Chronicles Chapter 11

¹³The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

¹⁴For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons rejected them, that they should not execute the priest's office to ForeverOne; ¹⁵and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

¹⁶After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek ForeverOne, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to ForeverOne, the God of their fathers.

¹⁷So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

¹⁸Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, [and of] Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse; ¹⁹and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

²⁰After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

²¹Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.) ²²Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, [even] the prince among his brothers; for [he was minded] to make him king.

²³He dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them food in abundance. He sought [for them] many wives.

2 Chronicles Chapter 12

¹When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he forsook the law of ForeverOne, and all Israel with him.

²In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against ForeverOne, ³with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horsemen. The people were without number who came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

⁴He took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

Mark Chapter 9

³⁰They went out from there, and passed through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know it.

³¹For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again." ³²But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

³³He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, "What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?" ³⁴But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.

³⁵He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all." ³⁶He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them, ³⁷"Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn't receive me, but him who sent me." ³⁸John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us." ³⁹But Jesus said, "Don't forbid him, for there is no one who will do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

⁴⁰For whoever is not against us is on our side.

⁴¹For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are the AnointedOne's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

⁴²Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them if they were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around their neck.

⁴³If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, ⁴⁴[*'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'] ⁴⁵If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life lame, rather than having your two feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the fire that will never be quenched- ⁴⁶[*'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.'] ⁴⁷If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out. It is better for you to enter into God's Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna of fire, ⁴⁸'where their worm doesn't die, and the fire is not quenched.' ⁴⁹For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

⁵⁰Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."