#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 15Ezra 4 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 15 Ezra 4 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0715db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Opposition to the Construction of the Second Temple 1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel,  2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families. They said to them, “Let us build with you, because, like you, we seek your God, and we have been sacrificing to him [1] since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.” 3 Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, “We will not permit you to join us in building a house for our God, because we ourselves will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, just as King Cyrus of Persia commanded us.” 4 Then the people of the land kept discouraging [2] the people of Judah and kept trying to make them too frightened to build.  5 They kept bribing officials [3] against them to try to frustrate their plans. They did this throughout all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, until the reign of Darius king of Persia. 6 During the reign of Xerxes, [4] at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.  7 Then in Artaxerxes’ days, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabe’el, and the rest of his associates wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia. A document was written in Aramaic and translated. [5] What follows is the Aramaic version. [6] 8 Rehum the head of the council and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows: 9 Heading: Rehum the head of the council with Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates: the judges, the rulers, the officials, the administrators, people from Uruk and Babylon, people from Susa (that is, the Elamites), [7]  10 and the rest of the peoples whom the great and glorious Ashurbanipal exiled and settled in the city of Samaria and the rest of the province called Trans-Euphrates. [8] 11 (This is a copy of the letter that they sent to him.) To King Artaxerxes. From your servants, men of the Trans-Euphrates. Message: 12 The King should know that the Judeans who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. Soon they will have completed the walls, and they are now repairing the foundations. 13 Now let it be known to the King that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are completed, then taxes, tribute, and revenue will not be paid, and kings certainly will be harmed. 14 Now because we are duty-bound by an oath to the King [9] and do not wish to see the King dishonored, for that reason we are sending this letter to inform the King,  15 so that a search may be made in the book containing the memoranda of your predecessors. In this book of memoranda you will discover and come to know that this city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, producing rebellions within it from days of old. For this reason that city was destroyed.  16 We are informing the King that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, then, because of that, you will retain possession of no portion of the Trans-Euphrates. 17 The king sent a reply: To Rehum the head of the council, Shimshai the secretary, and the rest of their associates, who live in Samaria and the rest of the province called Trans-Euphrates. Peace. Message: 18 The document that you sent to us was translated and read in my presence.  19 So a decree was issued by me. They searched and found that from ancient days that city has risen up against kings, and rebellion and insurrection have been made in it.  20 Powerful kings were over Jerusalem, and they ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute, and revenue were paid to them.  21 Therefore, issue a decree to stop these men, and this city shall not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.  22 Moreover, continue to be diligent. Do not neglect to do this. Why should damage increase to harm kings? 23 Then, when a copy of Artaxerxes’ document was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the secretary, and their associates, they immediately went to the Judeans in Jerusalem, and they stopped them with armed force.  24 In this way, the work on the house of God in Jerusalem was stopped. Also, it had previously been stopped until the second year [10] of the reign of King Darius of Persia. [11] Footnotes  Ezra 4:2 The translation follows the marginal Hebrew reading, which is supported by a Dead Sea Scroll and the ancient versions. The main Hebrew reading is have not been sacrificing. Ezra 4:4 Literally causing the hands to droop for Ezra 4:5 Or hiring lobbyists Ezra 4:6 The EHV uses the names of the Persian kings that have become the standard English names. These names derive from the Greek versions of the names rather than directly from the Hebrew or Persian forms of the names. Ezra 4:7 Presumably translated into Persian for the king. See verse 18. Ezra 4:7 E zra 4:7–6:18 is in Aramaic, as is Ezra 7:12–26. The letters are written in a kind of formal, stylized, bureaucratic Aramaic. Ezra 4:9 It is unclear which of these terms refer to offices and which refer to ethnic groups. Some translations understand all of them to be names of ethnic groups: Dinaites and Apharsathkites, Tarpelites, Persians, Urukites, Babylonians, Susanites, Dahavites, Elamites. If some of the words are names of office-holders, it is not clear in all cases which specific offices are referred to. Ezra 4:10 That is, the territory west of the Euphrates River, Syria-Palestine Ezra 4:14 Literally we eat the salt of the palace Ezra 4:24 That is, 520 bc Ezra 4:24 The hostile letter to the later King Artaxerxes illustrates the method that had been used to stop the work earlier, during the reign of Darius.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-4bf67a4025aaa2172cd33cb50410d27c .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 15</h3><h3>Ezra 4</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0715db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 15</h6> <p>Ezra 4 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0715db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0715db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h4>Opposition to the Construction of the Second Temple</h4> <p>1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel,  2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families. They said to them, “Let us build with you, because, like you, we seek your God, and we have been sacrificing to him [1] since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”</p> <p>3 Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, “We will not permit you to join us in building a house for our God, because we ourselves will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, just as King Cyrus of Persia commanded us.”</p> <p>4 Then the people of the land kept discouraging [2] the people of Judah and kept trying to make them too frightened to build.  5 They kept bribing officials [3] against them to try to frustrate their plans. They did this throughout all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, until the reign of Darius king of Persia.</p> <p>6 During the reign of Xerxes, [4] at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.  7 Then in Artaxerxes’ days, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabe’el, and the rest of his associates wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia. A document was written in Aramaic and translated. [5] What follows is the Aramaic version. [6]</p> <p>8 Rehum the head of the council and Shimshai the secretary wrote a letter concerning Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:</p> <p>9 Heading: Rehum the head of the council with Shimshai the secretary and the rest of their associates: the judges, the rulers, the officials, the administrators, people from Uruk and Babylon, people from Susa (that is, the Elamites), [7]  10 and the rest of the peoples whom the great and glorious Ashurbanipal exiled and settled in the city of Samaria and the rest of the province called Trans-Euphrates. [8]</p> <p>11 (This is a copy of the letter that they sent to him.)</p> <p>To King Artaxerxes.</p> <p>From your servants, men of the Trans-Euphrates.</p> <p>Message:</p> <p>12 The King should know that the Judeans who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. Soon they will have completed the walls, and they are now repairing the foundations.</p> <p>13 Now let it be known to the King that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are completed, then taxes, tribute, and revenue will not be paid, and kings certainly will be harmed.</p> <p>14 Now because we are duty-bound by an oath to the King [9] and do not wish to see the King dishonored, for that reason we are sending this letter to inform the King,  15 so that a search may be made in the book containing the memoranda of your predecessors. In this book of memoranda you will discover and come to know that this city is a rebellious city, harmful to kings and provinces, producing rebellions within it from days of old. For this reason that city was destroyed.  16 We are informing the King that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are completed, then, because of that, you will retain possession of no portion of the Trans-Euphrates.</p> <p>17 The king sent a reply:</p> <p>To Rehum the head of the council, Shimshai the secretary, and the rest of their associates, who live in Samaria and the rest of the province called Trans-Euphrates.</p> <p>Peace.</p> <p>Message:</p> <p>18 The document that you sent to us was translated and read in my presence.  19 So a decree was issued by me. They searched and found that from ancient days that city has risen up against kings, and rebellion and insurrection have been made in it.  20 Powerful kings were over Jerusalem, and they ruled throughout the entire Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute, and revenue were paid to them.  21 Therefore, issue a decree to stop these men, and this city shall not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.  22 Moreover, continue to be diligent. Do not neglect to do this. Why should damage increase to harm kings?</p> <p>23 Then, when a copy of Artaxerxes’ document was read in the presence of Rehum, Shimshai the secretary, and their associates, they immediately went to the Judeans in Jerusalem, and they stopped them with armed force.  24 In this way, the work on the house of God in Jerusalem was stopped. Also, it had previously been stopped until the second year [10] of the reign of King Darius of Persia. [11]</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezra 4:2 The translation follows the marginal Hebrew reading, which is supported by a Dead Sea Scroll and the ancient versions. The main Hebrew reading is have not been sacrificing.</li> <li>Ezra 4:4 Literally causing the hands to droop for</li> <li>Ezra 4:5 Or hiring lobbyists</li> <li>Ezra 4:6 The EHV uses the names of the Persian kings that have become the standard English names. These names derive from the Greek versions of the names rather than directly from the Hebrew or Persian forms of the names.</li> <li>Ezra 4:7 Presumably translated into Persian for the king. See verse 18.</li> <li>Ezra 4:7 E zra 4:7–6:18 is in Aramaic, as is Ezra 7:12–26. The letters are written in a kind of formal, stylized, bureaucratic Aramaic.</li> <li>Ezra 4:9 It is unclear which of these terms refer to offices and which refer to ethnic groups. Some translations understand all of them to be names of ethnic groups: Dinaites and Apharsathkites, Tarpelites, Persians, Urukites, Babylonians, Susanites, Dahavites, Elamites. If some of the words are names of office-holders, it is not clear in all cases which specific offices are referred to.</li> <li>Ezra 4:10 That is, the territory west of the Euphrates River, Syria-Palestine</li> <li>Ezra 4:14 Literally we eat the salt of the palace</li> <li>Ezra 4:24 That is, 520 bc</li> <li>Ezra 4:24 The hostile letter to the later King Artaxerxes illustrates the method that had been used to stop the work earlier, during the reign of Darius.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_15_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2015" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2015&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31381" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2015&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_15_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2015&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_15_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 15

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 14Ezra 3 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 14 Ezra 3 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0714db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Beginning the Construction of the Second Temple 1 When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their own cities, the people gathered together in Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua son of Jozadak with his fellow priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel with his colleagues [1] arose and built the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the Law of Moses, the man of God.  3 They set the altar on its foundations, although they were in terror of the peoples of the lands. They offered burnt offerings to the Lord upon it—burnt offerings in the evening and in the morning. 4 They observed the Festival of Shelters, [2] according to the written directions, and they offered the daily burnt offerings in the number specified for each day of the festival.  5 After this, they offered the regular burnt offerings, those for the new moons, those for all the appointed assemblies of the Lord, and the offerings for everyone who was bringing a voluntary contribution to offer to the Lord.  6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not yet been laid. 7 They gave money to the stonemasons and craftsmen, and they gave food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians to pay them for bringing cedar logs from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, according to the authorization that had been given to them by Cyrus king of Persia. 8 In the second year after their arrival at the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, along with the rest of their colleagues, the priests and the Levites, and everyone who returned from the captivity to Jerusalem began the work. They appointed Levites who were twenty years old and older to supervise the work on the house for the Lord.  9 Jeshua together with his sons and brothers and Kadmiel with his sons (they were descendants of Judah [3]) assumed supervision over those working on the house for God. (The Levites who were descendants of Henadad, along with their sons and brothers, also supervised.) 10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, stood by with trumpets, and the Levites, the descendants of Asaph, stood by with cymbals to praise the Lord as prescribed by David king of Israel.  11 They sang antiphonally to praise and thank the Lord: Truly, he is good, because his mercy toward Israel endures forever. All the people shouted loud praise to the Lord when the foundation of the House of the Lord was laid.  12 However, when many of the older priests, Levites, and heads of families, who had seen the first house, saw this house being founded, they wept loudly, although many also raised their voices in a shout of joy.  13 The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful cry from the sound of the people weeping, because the people were shouting loudly, and the sound could be heard far away. Footnotes  Ezra 3:2 Literally brothers Ezra 3:4 Traditionally Tabernacles Ezra 3:9 Also called Hodaviah (Ezra 2:40; Nehemiah 7:43). The exact relationship of these groups of people is unclear.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e91931150dc1557c2fff137c388ee8e0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 14</h3><h3>Ezra 3</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0714db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 14</h6> <p>Ezra 3 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0714db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0714db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h4>Beginning the Construction of the Second Temple</h4> <p>1 When the seventh month arrived and the Israelites were living in their own cities, the people gathered together in Jerusalem.</p> <p>2 Then Jeshua son of Jozadak with his fellow priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel with his colleagues [1] arose and built the altar of the God of Israel in order to offer burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the Law of Moses, the man of God.  3 They set the altar on its foundations, although they were in terror of the peoples of the lands. They offered burnt offerings to the Lord upon it—burnt offerings in the evening and in the morning.</p> <p>4 They observed the Festival of Shelters, [2] according to the written directions, and they offered the daily burnt offerings in the number specified for each day of the festival.  5 After this, they offered the regular burnt offerings, those for the new moons, those for all the appointed assemblies of the Lord, and the offerings for everyone who was bringing a voluntary contribution to offer to the Lord.  6 From the first day of the seventh month, they began to offer burnt offerings, although the foundation of the temple of the Lord had not yet been laid.</p> <p>7 They gave money to the stonemasons and craftsmen, and they gave food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians to pay them for bringing cedar logs from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, according to the authorization that had been given to them by Cyrus king of Persia.</p> <p>8 In the second year after their arrival at the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, along with the rest of their colleagues, the priests and the Levites, and everyone who returned from the captivity to Jerusalem began the work.</p> <p>They appointed Levites who were twenty years old and older to supervise the work on the house for the Lord.  9 Jeshua together with his sons and brothers and Kadmiel with his sons (they were descendants of Judah [3]) assumed supervision over those working on the house for God. (The Levites who were descendants of Henadad, along with their sons and brothers, also supervised.)</p> <p>10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, stood by with trumpets, and the Levites, the descendants of Asaph, stood by with cymbals to praise the Lord as prescribed by David king of Israel.  11 They sang antiphonally to praise and thank the Lord:</p> <p>Truly, he is good, because his mercy toward Israel endures forever.</p> <p>All the people shouted loud praise to the Lord when the foundation of the House of the Lord was laid.  12 However, when many of the older priests, Levites, and heads of families, who had seen the first house, saw this house being founded, they wept loudly, although many also raised their voices in a shout of joy.  13 The people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful cry from the sound of the people weeping, because the people were shouting loudly, and the sound could be heard far away.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezra 3:2 Literally brothers</li> <li>Ezra 3:4 Traditionally Tabernacles</li> <li>Ezra 3:9 Also called Hodaviah (Ezra 2:40; Nehemiah 7:43). The exact relationship of these groups of people is unclear.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_14_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2014" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2014&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31380" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2014&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_14_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2014&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_14_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 14

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 13Ezra 1 – 2 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 13 Ezra 1 – 2 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0713db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible The Decree of Cyrus  Ezra 1 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord given through the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia. Cyrus circulated a proclamation throughout his kingdom and recorded it in a written document. 2 This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: The Lord, the God of Heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me. He has appointed me to build a house [1] for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.  3 From all his people, whoever among you is willing (may the Lord his God be with him) is permitted to go up to Jerusalem in Judah. He may build the House of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.  4 Any of the exiles who have survived, in any place where they are living as resident aliens, may receive support from the people of that place: silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with their voluntary contributions for the House of the God who is in Jerusalem. Preparations for the Return 5 Then the heads of the families [2] of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites arose—everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the House of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem.  6 All of their neighbors supported them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all kinds of voluntary contributions. 7 King Cyrus also brought out the vessels of the House of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put into the house of his gods.  8 Now Cyrus king of Persia entrusted them to the treasurer Mithredath, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the leader [3] of Judah. 9 This is a tally of several different kinds of vessels:    gold dishes 30   silver dishes 1,000   pans [4] 29   10 gold bowls 30   silver bowls of other kinds 410   other articles 1,000    11 The total number of all of the gold and silver vessels was 5,400. Sheshbazzar brought these things up to Jerusalem along with the exiles who went up to Jerusalem. The List of Those Who Returned  Ezra 2 1 Now these are the people [5] of the province who went up from the captivity of the exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled to Babylon. 2 The people who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, [6] Nehemiah, Seraiah, Re’elaiah, [7] Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Ba’anah returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each man to his own city. This is the tally of the men from the people of Israel: [8]     3 the male descendants [9] of Parosh: 2,172   4 the male descendants of Shephatiah: 372   5 the male descendants of Arah: 775   6 the male descendants of Pahath Moab through the descendants of Jeshua and Joab: 2,812   7 the male descendants of Elam: 1,254   8 the male descendants of Zattu: 945   9 the male descendants of Zakkai: 760   10 the male descendants of Bani: 642   11 the male descendants of Bebai: 623   12 the male descendants of Azgad: 1,222   13 the male descendants of Adonikam: 666   14 the male descendants of Bigvai: 2,056   15 the male descendants of Adin: 454   16 the male descendants of Ater through Hezekiah: 98   17 the male descendants of Bezai: 323   18 the male descendants of Jorah: 112   19 the male descendants of Hashum: 223   20 the male descendants of Gibbar: 95   21 the citizens [10] of Bethlehem: 123   22 the men of Netophah: 56   23 the men of Anathoth: 128   24 the citizens of Azmaveth: 42   25 the citizens of Kiriath Arim, [11] Kephirah, and Be’eroth: 743   26 the citizens of Ramah and Geba: 621   27 the men of Mikmash: 122   28 the men of Bethel and Ai: 223   29 the citizens of Nebo: 52   30 the citizens of Magbish: 156   31 the citizens of the other Elam: 1,254   32 the citizens of Harim: 320   33 the citizens of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: 725   34 the citizens of Jericho: 345   35 the citizens of Sena’ah: 3,630   36 The priests:the descendants [12] of Jedaiah through the house of Jeshua: 973   37 the descendants of Immer: 1,052   38 the descendants of Pashhur: 1,247   39 the descendants of Harim: 1,017   40 The Levites:the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel through the descendants of Hodaviah: 74   41 The singers:the descendants of Asaph: 128   42 The descendants of the gatekeepers:the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater,the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub,the descendants of Hatita, the descendants of Shobai, in total: 139      43 The temple servants:         the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha,         the descendants of Tabbaoth,  44 the descendants of Keros,         the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, 45         the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah,         the descendants of Akkub,  46 the descendants of Hagab,         the descendants of Shamlai, [13] the descendants of Hanan, 47         the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar,         the descendants of Reaiah,  48 the descendants of Rezin,         the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam, 49         the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah,         the descendants of Besai,  50 the descendants of Asnah,         the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephusim, [14] 51         the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha,         the descendants of Harhur,  52 the descendants of Bazluth,         the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, 53         the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera,         the descendants of Temah,  54 the descendants of Neziah,         the descendants of Hatipha. 55 The descendants of the servants of Solomon:         the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth,         the descendants of Peruda,  56 the descendants of Ja’alah,         the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, 57         the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil,         the descendants of Pokereth Hazzebaim, the descendants of Ami. 58 The total of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants was 392. 59 The following are the people who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer. They were not able to prove their ancestry or descent—whether they were from Israel: 60 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, the descendants of Nekoda: 652, 61 from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai, through a man who married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and so they were called by his family name. 62 These people searched for their genealogical records, but they could not find them, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.  63 The governor told them that they should not eat from the most holy sacrifices until a priest would arise who could serve with Urim and Thummim. 64 The entire assembly together numbered 42,360,  65 not counting their male slaves and their female slaves, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers.  66 Their horses numbered 736, their mules 245,  67 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720. 68 So when the heads of the families came to the House of the Lord in Jerusalem, they gave voluntary contributions for God’s house in order to construct it on its site.  69 On the basis of their wealth, they gave the following amounts to the treasury to support the work: 61,000 gold darics, [15] 5,000 silver minas, [16] and 100 garments for the priests. 70 The priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, the temple servants, and some of the people settled in Jerusalem and its towns, [17] and all the rest of Israel settled in their towns. Footnotes  Ezra 1:2 In the historical books the temple in Jerusalem is frequently called a house (bayit) rather than a temple (hekal). Ezra 1:5 Literally the heads of the fathers or the leading fathers Ezra 1:8 The title leader (nasi) does not necessarily refer to a prince, the son of a king. Sheshbazzar is, however, traditionally called a prince because the line of the Messiah is traced through him. Ezra 1:9 The precise identification of some of these objects is uncertain. For example, the term translated pans may mean knives. Ezra 2:1 Literally sons. This term sons may include male descendants of multiple generations. Ezra 2:2 Also known as Joshua Ezra 2:2 The stop mark ′ indicates that the double vowel should be pronounced as two syllables, re-el, not as one syllable, reel. Ezra 2:2 In this list and the similar list in Nehemiah, there are many variants of names and numbers. The translation provides footnotes only for some of the more important variants. Ezra 2:3 Literally sons Ezra 2:21 Literally sons Ezra 2:25 Variant of Kiriath Jearim Ezra 2:36 Literally sons Ezra 2:46 Variant Shalmai Ezra 2:50 Many of the names in these lists, including Meinim and Nephisim, have variant spellings. The most common variant is between i and u, which look alike in some phases of Hebrew. Ezra 2:69 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, perhaps a third of an ounce. It is also the name for the standard gold coin of the Persian Empire. Ezra 2:69 A mina weighed about 1¼ pounds. Ezra 2:70 The word Jerusalem is not in the Hebrew text, but it is present in the Greek Old Testament. The first group of cities, therefore, refers to Jerusalem and its environs, and the second group of cities to the more distant cities and towns of Judah and Benjamin.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-a27ba0fe50ce53410e5f5e6ccd4c99e5 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 13</h3><h3>Ezra 1 – 2</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0713db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 13</h6> <p>Ezra 1 – 2 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0713db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0713db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h4>The Decree of Cyrus</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezra 1</h3> <p>1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord given through the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia. Cyrus circulated a proclamation throughout his kingdom and recorded it in a written document.</p> <p>2 This is what Cyrus king of Persia says:</p> <p>The Lord, the God of Heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me. He has appointed me to build a house [1] for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.  3 From all his people, whoever among you is willing (may the Lord his God be with him) is permitted to go up to Jerusalem in Judah. He may build the House of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.  4 Any of the exiles who have survived, in any place where they are living as resident aliens, may receive support from the people of that place: silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with their voluntary contributions for the House of the God who is in Jerusalem.</p> <h4>Preparations for the Return</h4> <p>5 Then the heads of the families [2] of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites arose—everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the House of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem.  6 All of their neighbors supported them with articles of silver, with gold, with goods, with livestock, and with valuables, in addition to all kinds of voluntary contributions.</p> <p>7 King Cyrus also brought out the vessels of the House of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and put into the house of his gods.  8 Now Cyrus king of Persia entrusted them to the treasurer Mithredath, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar, the leader [3] of Judah.</p> <p>9 This is a tally of several different kinds of vessels:</p>    gold dishes 30   silver dishes 1,000   pans [4] 29   10 gold bowls 30   silver bowls of other kinds 410   other articles 1,000    <p>11 The total number of all of the gold and silver vessels was 5,400.</p> <p>Sheshbazzar brought these things up to Jerusalem along with the exiles who went up to Jerusalem.</p> <h4>The List of Those Who Returned</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezra 2</h3> <p>1 Now these are the people [5] of the province who went up from the captivity of the exiles whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had exiled to Babylon. 2 The people who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, [6] Nehemiah, Seraiah, Re’elaiah, [7] Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Ba’anah returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each man to his own city.</p> <p>This is the tally of the men from the people of Israel: [8]</p>     3 the male descendants [9] of Parosh: 2,172   4 the male descendants of Shephatiah: 372   5 the male descendants of Arah: 775   6 the male descendants of Pahath Moab through the descendants of Jeshua and Joab: 2,812   7 the male descendants of Elam: 1,254   8 the male descendants of Zattu: 945   9 the male descendants of Zakkai: 760   10 the male descendants of Bani: 642   11 the male descendants of Bebai: 623   12 the male descendants of Azgad: 1,222   13 the male descendants of Adonikam: 666   14 the male descendants of Bigvai: 2,056   15 the male descendants of Adin: 454   16 the male descendants of Ater through Hezekiah: 98   17 the male descendants of Bezai: 323   18 the male descendants of Jorah: 112   19 the male descendants of Hashum: 223   20 the male descendants of Gibbar: 95   21 the citizens [10] of Bethlehem: 123   22 the men of Netophah: 56   23 the men of Anathoth: 128   24 the citizens of Azmaveth: 42   25 the citizens of Kiriath Arim, [11] Kephirah, and Be’eroth: 743   26 the citizens of Ramah and Geba: 621   27 the men of Mikmash: 122   28 the men of Bethel and Ai: 223   29 the citizens of Nebo: 52   30 the citizens of Magbish: 156   31 the citizens of the other Elam: 1,254   32 the citizens of Harim: 320   33 the citizens of Lod, Hadid, and Ono: 725   34 the citizens of Jericho: 345   35 the citizens of Sena’ah: 3,630   36 The priests:the descendants [12] of Jedaiah through the house of Jeshua: 973   37 the descendants of Immer: 1,052   38 the descendants of Pashhur: 1,247   39 the descendants of Harim: 1,017   40 The Levites:the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel through the descendants of Hodaviah: 74   41 The singers:the descendants of Asaph: 128   42 The descendants of the gatekeepers:the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater,the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub,the descendants of Hatita, the descendants of Shobai, in total: 139      <p>43 The temple servants:<br/>         the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha,<br/>         the descendants of Tabbaoth,  44 the descendants of Keros,<br/>         the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon,<br/> 45         the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah,<br/>         the descendants of Akkub,  46 the descendants of Hagab,<br/>         the descendants of Shamlai, [13] the descendants of Hanan,<br/> 47         the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar,<br/>         the descendants of Reaiah,  48 the descendants of Rezin,<br/>         the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam,<br/> 49         the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah,<br/>         the descendants of Besai,  50 the descendants of Asnah,<br/>         the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephusim, [14]<br/> 51         the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha,<br/>         the descendants of Harhur,  52 the descendants of Bazluth,<br/>         the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha,<br/> 53         the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera,<br/>         the descendants of Temah,  54 the descendants of Neziah,<br/>         the descendants of Hatipha.</p> <p>55 The descendants of the servants of Solomon:<br/>         the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth,<br/>         the descendants of Peruda,  56 the descendants of Ja’alah,<br/>         the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel,<br/> 57         the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil,<br/>         the descendants of Pokereth Hazzebaim, the descendants of Ami.<br/> 58 The total of the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon’s servants was 392.</p> <p>59 The following are the people who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer. They were not able to prove their ancestry or descent—whether they were from Israel:</p> <p>60 the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah,<br/> the descendants of Nekoda: 652,<br/> 61 from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai, through a man who married one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and so they were called by his family name.</p> <p>62 These people searched for their genealogical records, but they could not find them, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.  63 The governor told them that they should not eat from the most holy sacrifices until a priest would arise who could serve with Urim and Thummim.</p> <p>64 The entire assembly together numbered 42,360,  65 not counting their male slaves and their female slaves, who numbered 7,337. They also had 200 male and female singers.  66 Their horses numbered 736, their mules 245,  67 their camels 435, and their donkeys 6,720.</p> <p>68 So when the heads of the families came to the House of the Lord in Jerusalem, they gave voluntary contributions for God’s house in order to construct it on its site.  69 On the basis of their wealth, they gave the following amounts to the treasury to support the work: 61,000 gold darics, [15] 5,000 silver minas, [16] and 100 garments for the priests.</p> <p>70 The priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, the temple servants, and some of the people settled in Jerusalem and its towns, [17] and all the rest of Israel settled in their towns.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezra 1:2 In the historical books the temple in Jerusalem is frequently called a house (bayit) rather than a temple (hekal).</li> <li>Ezra 1:5 Literally the heads of the fathers or the leading fathers</li> <li>Ezra 1:8 The title leader (nasi) does not necessarily refer to a prince, the son of a king. Sheshbazzar is, however, traditionally called a prince because the line of the Messiah is traced through him.</li> <li>Ezra 1:9 The precise identification of some of these objects is uncertain. For example, the term translated pans may mean knives.</li> <li>Ezra 2:1 Literally sons. This term sons may include male descendants of multiple generations.</li> <li>Ezra 2:2 Also known as Joshua</li> <li>Ezra 2:2 The stop mark ′ indicates that the double vowel should be pronounced as two syllables, re-el, not as one syllable, reel.</li> <li>Ezra 2:2 In this list and the similar list in Nehemiah, there are many variants of names and numbers. The translation provides footnotes only for some of the more important variants.</li> <li>Ezra 2:3 Literally sons</li> <li>Ezra 2:21 Literally sons</li> <li>Ezra 2:25 Variant of Kiriath Jearim</li> <li>Ezra 2:36 Literally sons</li> <li>Ezra 2:46 Variant Shalmai</li> <li>Ezra 2:50 Many of the names in these lists, including Meinim and Nephisim, have variant spellings. The most common variant is between i and u, which look alike in some phases of Hebrew.</li> <li>Ezra 2:69 A daric is a unit of weight that appears in post-exilic books. It is a Persian term, equal to the Greek drachma, perhaps a third of an ounce. It is also the name for the standard gold coin of the Persian Empire.</li> <li>Ezra 2:69 A mina weighed about 1¼ pounds.</li> <li>Ezra 2:70 The word Jerusalem is not in the Hebrew text, but it is present in the Greek Old Testament. The first group of cities, therefore, refers to Jerusalem and its environs, and the second group of cities to the more distant cities and towns of Judah and Benjamin.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 13

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 12Philemon LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 12 Philemon (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0712db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Greeting Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon, our dear friend and coworker,  2 to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house: 3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Philemon’s Love and Faith 4 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,  5 because I hear about your love and faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.  6 I pray that this fellowship of your faith may become active in understanding every good thing that belongs to us [1] in Christ.  7 For I have received great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother. Appeal on Behalf of Onesimus 8 For that reason, even though I have plenty of boldness in Christ to order you to do what is proper,  9 I am appealing to you, instead, on the basis of love, just as I, Paul, am an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.  10 I am appealing to you on behalf of my child Onesimus. [2] I became his father while I was in chains.  11 There was a time when he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.  12 I have sent him (who is my very heart) back to you. Welcome him. [3]  13 I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might serve me in your place while I am in chains for the gospel.  14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your kindness would not be the result of compulsion, but of willingness.  15 Perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while: so that you would have him back forever,  16 no longer as a slave, but as more than a slave, as a dear brother. He certainly is dear to me, but he is even more of a dear brother to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 So if you consider me your partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.  18 And if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to me.  19 I, Paul, have written this with my own hand: I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.  20 Yes, brother, I am asking for a favor from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.  21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask. 22 Just one more thing: Prepare a guest room for me, because I am hoping to be given back to you in answer to your prayers. Closing Words 23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends his greetings to you,  24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my coworkers.  25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your [4] spirit. Amen. Footnotes  Philemon 1:6 Some witnesses to the text read you. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.) Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful. See the play on words in verse 11. Philemon 1:12 Some witnesses to the text omit Welcome him. Philemon 1:25 Your is plural.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d39aea2f5128469e3ab70335af604512 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 12</h3><h3>Philemon</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0712db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 12</h6> <p>Philemon (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0712db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0712db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h4>Greeting</h4> <p>Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother,</p> <p>To Philemon, our dear friend and coworker,  2 to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your house:</p> <p>3 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.</p> <h4>Philemon’s Love and Faith</h4> <p>4 I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers,  5 because I hear about your love and faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.  6 I pray that this fellowship of your faith may become active in understanding every good thing that belongs to us [1] in Christ.  7 For I have received great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.</p> <h4>Appeal on Behalf of Onesimus</h4> <p>8 For that reason, even though I have plenty of boldness in Christ to order you to do what is proper,  9 I am appealing to you, instead, on the basis of love, just as I, Paul, am an old man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.  10 I am appealing to you on behalf of my child Onesimus. [2] I became his father while I was in chains.  11 There was a time when he was useless to you, but now he is useful both to you and to me.  12 I have sent him (who is my very heart) back to you. Welcome him. [3]  13 I wanted to keep him with me, so that he might serve me in your place while I am in chains for the gospel.  14 But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your kindness would not be the result of compulsion, but of willingness.  15 Perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while: so that you would have him back forever,  16 no longer as a slave, but as more than a slave, as a dear brother. He certainly is dear to me, but he is even more of a dear brother to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.</p> <p>17 So if you consider me your partner, welcome him as you would welcome me.  18 And if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to me.  19 I, Paul, have written this with my own hand: I will repay it—not to mention that you owe me your very self.  20 Yes, brother, I am asking for a favor from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.  21 Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.</p> <p>22 Just one more thing: Prepare a guest room for me, because I am hoping to be given back to you in answer to your prayers.</p> <h4>Closing Words</h4> <p>23 Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends his greetings to you,  24 as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my coworkers.  25 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your [4] spirit. Amen.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Philemon 1:6 Some witnesses to the text read you. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.)</li> <li>Philemon 1:10 Onesimus means useful. See the play on words in verse 11.</li> <li>Philemon 1:12 Some witnesses to the text omit Welcome him.</li> <li>Philemon 1:25 Your is plural.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_12_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2012" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2012&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31378" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2012&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_12_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2012&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_12_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 12

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 11Colossians 3:18 – 4:18 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 11 Colossians 3:18 – 4:18 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0711db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 3 Household Duties 18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  19 Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly. 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.  21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, so that they do not become discouraged. 22 Slaves, obey your human masters [1] in everything, not just when they are watching you, like people-pleasers, but with a sincere heart, out of respect for the Lord.  23 Whatever you do, keep working at it with all your heart, as for the Lord and not for people,  24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. Keep serving the Lord Christ!  25 Indeed, the one who does what is wrong will be repaid for what he did wrong, and there is no favoritism.  Colossians 4 1 Masters, show justice and fairness to your slaves, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven. Exhortations 2 Be persistent in prayer, and as you pray, be alert and thankful.  3 At the same time, pray for us too, that God might open a door for our message, so that we can tell the mystery about Christ, for which I am in prison.  4 Pray that I may make it known clearly, as it is necessary for me to speak.  5 Walk in wisdom in the way you act toward those on the outside, making the most of your opportunity. [2]  6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you are to answer each person. Final Greetings 7 Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you everything about me.  8 I am sending him to you for this very reason, that you may know how we are, [3] and that he may comfort your hearts.  9 I am sending him along with Onesimus, our faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is going on here. 10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas. You received instructions about him. If he comes to you, welcome him.  11 Jesus, who is called Justus, also greets you. These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are circumcised, [4] and who have been a source of comfort to me.  12 Epaphras greets you. He is one of you and is a servant of Christ. [5] He is always struggling in prayer for you, praying that you may stand complete and fully assured in all the will of God.  13 Indeed, I can testify about him that he has worked very hard in your place, in the place of those in Laodicea, and in the place of those in Hierapolis.  14 Luke, the dearly loved doctor, greets you, as does Demas. 15 Greet the brothers in Laodicea. Greet Nympha and the church at her [6] house.  16 When this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans. And make sure that you also read the letter from Laodicea.  17 Tell Archippus, “See to it that you fulfill the ministry that you received in the Lord.” 18 This greeting is written by me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen. [7] Footnotes  Colossians 3:22 Literally masters according to the flesh Colossians 4:5 Or redeeming the time Colossians 4:8 Some witnesses to the text read so that he may know how you are. Colossians 4:11 These were Jewish believers. Colossians 4:12 Some witnesses to the text add Jesus. Colossians 4:15 Some witnesses to the text read his. Colossians 4:18 Some witnesses to the text omit Amen.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-663bdfcad0cd09305b71f6f86cbacb79 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 11</h3><h3>Colossians 3:18 – 4:18</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0711db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 11</h6> <p>Colossians 3:18 – 4:18 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0711db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0711db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 3</h3> <h4>Household Duties</h4> <p>18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.  19 Husbands, love your wives and do not treat them harshly.</p> <p>20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.  21 Fathers, do not embitter your children, so that they do not become discouraged.</p> <p>22 Slaves, obey your human masters [1] in everything, not just when they are watching you, like people-pleasers, but with a sincere heart, out of respect for the Lord.  23 Whatever you do, keep working at it with all your heart, as for the Lord and not for people,  24 because you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. Keep serving the Lord Christ!  25 Indeed, the one who does what is wrong will be repaid for what he did wrong, and there is no favoritism.</p> <p> </p><h3>Colossians 4</h3> <p>1 Masters, show justice and fairness to your slaves, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.</p> <h4>Exhortations</h4> <p>2 Be persistent in prayer, and as you pray, be alert and thankful.  3 At the same time, pray for us too, that God might open a door for our message, so that we can tell the mystery about Christ, for which I am in prison.  4 Pray that I may make it known clearly, as it is necessary for me to speak.  5 Walk in wisdom in the way you act toward those on the outside, making the most of your opportunity. [2]  6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you are to answer each person.</p> <h4>Final Greetings</h4> <p>7 Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you everything about me.  8 I am sending him to you for this very reason, that you may know how we are, [3] and that he may comfort your hearts.  9 I am sending him along with Onesimus, our faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will tell you everything that is going on here.</p> <p>10 Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas. You received instructions about him. If he comes to you, welcome him.  11 Jesus, who is called Justus, also greets you. These are my only fellow workers for the kingdom of God who are circumcised, [4] and who have been a source of comfort to me.  12 Epaphras greets you. He is one of you and is a servant of Christ. [5] He is always struggling in prayer for you, praying that you may stand complete and fully assured in all the will of God.  13 Indeed, I can testify about him that he has worked very hard in your place, in the place of those in Laodicea, and in the place of those in Hierapolis.  14 Luke, the dearly loved doctor, greets you, as does Demas.</p> <p>15 Greet the brothers in Laodicea. Greet Nympha and the church at her [6] house.  16 When this letter has been read among you, make sure that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans. And make sure that you also read the letter from Laodicea.  17 Tell Archippus, “See to it that you fulfill the ministry that you received in the Lord.”</p> <p>18 This greeting is written by me, Paul, with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen. [7]</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Colossians 3:22 Literally masters according to the flesh</li> <li>Colossians 4:5 Or redeeming the time</li> <li>Colossians 4:8 Some witnesses to the text read so that he may know how you are.</li> <li>Colossians 4:11 These were Jewish believers.</li> <li>Colossians 4:12 Some witnesses to the text add Jesus.</li> <li>Colossians 4:15 Some witnesses to the text read his.</li> <li>Colossians 4:18 Some witnesses to the text omit Amen.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_11_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2011" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2011&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31377" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2011&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_11_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2011&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_11_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 11

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 10Colossians 3:1-17 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 10 Colossians 3:1-17 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0710db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 3 1 Therefore, because you were raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.  2 Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.  3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  4 When Christ, who is your [1] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. The New Creation 5 So put to death whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.  6 It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. [2]  7 You too once walked in these things, when you were living in them. 8 But now, you too are to rid yourselves of all of these: wrath, anger, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.  9 Do not lie to each other since you have put off the old self with its practices,  10 and put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in knowledge, according to the image of its Creator.  11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but rather Christ is all and is in all. List of Virtues 12 Therefore, as God’s elect, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.  13 Bear with one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against anyone else. Forgive, just as Christ [3] forgave you.  14 And, in addition to all these things, put on love, which ties things together in perfect unity.  15 Let the peace of Christ control your hearts, to which you were also called, in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ [4] dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. [5]  17 And everything you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Footnotes  Colossians 3:4 Some witnesses to the text read our. Colossians 3:6 A few witnesses to the text omit on the sons of disobedience. Colossians 3:13 Some witnesses to the text read the Lord. Colossians 3:16 A few witnesses to the text read God. Colossians 3:16 Some witnesses to the text read the Lord.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-66243ddf664c2d85dc1f558617faa6fb .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 10</h3><h3>Colossians 3:1-17</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0710db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 10</h6> <p>Colossians 3:1-17 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0710db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0710db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 3</h3> <p>1 Therefore, because you were raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.  2 Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things.  3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  4 When Christ, who is your [1] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.</p> <h4>The New Creation</h4> <p>5 So put to death whatever is worldly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.  6 It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. [2]  7 You too once walked in these things, when you were living in them.</p> <p>8 But now, you too are to rid yourselves of all of these: wrath, anger, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth.  9 Do not lie to each other since you have put off the old self with its practices,  10 and put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in knowledge, according to the image of its Creator.  11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but rather Christ is all and is in all.</p> <h4>List of Virtues</h4> <p>12 Therefore, as God’s elect, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.  13 Bear with one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against anyone else. Forgive, just as Christ [3] forgave you.  14 And, in addition to all these things, put on love, which ties things together in perfect unity.  15 Let the peace of Christ control your hearts, to which you were also called, in one body. And be thankful.</p> <p>16 Let the word of Christ [4] dwell in you richly, as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, with gratitude in your hearts to God. [5]  17 And everything you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Colossians 3:4 Some witnesses to the text read our.</li> <li>Colossians 3:6 A few witnesses to the text omit on the sons of disobedience.</li> <li>Colossians 3:13 Some witnesses to the text read the Lord.</li> <li>Colossians 3:16 A few witnesses to the text read God.</li> <li>Colossians 3:16 Some witnesses to the text read the Lord.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_10_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2010" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2010&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31376" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2010&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_10_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2010&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_10_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 10

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 09Colossians 2:8-23 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 09 Colossians 2:8-23 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0709db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 2 8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, which are in accord with human tradition, namely, the basic principles of the world, but not in accord with Christ.  9 For all the fullness of God’s being dwells bodily in Christ.  10 And you have been brought to fullness in him. Christ is the head over every ruler and authority.  11 You were also circumcised in him, with a circumcision not done by human hands, in the putting off of the body of flesh, [1] in the circumcision of Christ,  12 when you were buried with Christ in baptism. And in baptism you were also raised with him through the faith worked by the God who raised Christ from the dead. 13 Even when you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ by forgiving us all our trespasses.  14 God erased the record of our debt brought against us by his legal demands. This record stood against us, but he took it away by nailing it to the cross.  15 After disarming the rulers and authorities, he made a public display of them by triumphing over them in Christ. Paul Addresses the False Teaching 16 Therefore, do not let anyone judge you in regard to food or drink, or in regard to a festival or a New Moon or a Sabbath day.  17 These are a shadow of the things that were coming, but the body belongs to Christ.  18 Do not let anyone who enjoys false humility and the worship of angels tell you that you are disqualified from the prize. This person goes into detail about what he has seen. [2] He is puffed up for no reason by the attitude of his sinful flesh.  19 He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body grows with the growth that comes from God as it is supported and held together by its sinews and ligaments. Human Traditions Do Not Restrain the Flesh 20 If you died with Christ to the basic principles of the world, why do you submit to its rules, as if you were still living in the world?  21 “Do not touch!” “Do not taste!” “Do not handle!”  22 All of these rules end in destruction when they are used, because they are in accord with human commands and teachings.  23 While such rules have the appearance of wisdom with self-chosen religion, which consists of humiliation and severe treatment of the body, they have no value at all in checking the self-indulgence of the sinful flesh. Footnotes  Colossians 2:11 Some witnesses to the text read the body of the sins of the flesh. Colossians 2:18 Some witnesses to the text read has not seen.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-0c3c689c82599c14b446fc74c38afba4 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 09</h3><h3>Colossians 2:8-23</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0709db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 09</h6> <p>Colossians 2:8-23 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0709db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0709db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 2</h3> <p>8 See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, which are in accord with human tradition, namely, the basic principles of the world, but not in accord with Christ.  9 For all the fullness of God’s being dwells bodily in Christ.  10 And you have been brought to fullness in him. Christ is the head over every ruler and authority.  11 You were also circumcised in him, with a circumcision not done by human hands, in the putting off of the body of flesh, [1] in the circumcision of Christ,  12 when you were buried with Christ in baptism. And in baptism you were also raised with him through the faith worked by the God who raised Christ from the dead.</p> <p>13 Even when you were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ by forgiving us all our trespasses.  14 God erased the record of our debt brought against us by his legal demands. This record stood against us, but he took it away by nailing it to the cross.  15 After disarming the rulers and authorities, he made a public display of them by triumphing over them in Christ.</p> <h4>Paul Addresses the False Teaching</h4> <p>16 Therefore, do not let anyone judge you in regard to food or drink, or in regard to a festival or a New Moon or a Sabbath day.  17 These are a shadow of the things that were coming, but the body belongs to Christ.  18 Do not let anyone who enjoys false humility and the worship of angels tell you that you are disqualified from the prize. This person goes into detail about what he has seen. [2] He is puffed up for no reason by the attitude of his sinful flesh.  19 He does not hold on to the head, from whom the whole body grows with the growth that comes from God as it is supported and held together by its sinews and ligaments.</p> <h4>Human Traditions Do Not Restrain the Flesh</h4> <p>20 If you died with Christ to the basic principles of the world, why do you submit to its rules, as if you were still living in the world?  21 “Do not touch!” “Do not taste!” “Do not handle!”  22 All of these rules end in destruction when they are used, because they are in accord with human commands and teachings.  23 While such rules have the appearance of wisdom with self-chosen religion, which consists of humiliation and severe treatment of the body, they have no value at all in checking the self-indulgence of the sinful flesh.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Colossians 2:11 Some witnesses to the text read the body of the sins of the flesh.</li> <li>Colossians 2:18 Some witnesses to the text read has not seen.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_09_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2009" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2009&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31375" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2009&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_09_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2009&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_09_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 09

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 08Colossians 1:24 – 2:7 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 08 Colossians 1:24 – 2:7 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0708db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 1 Paul’s Service in Preaching the Gospel 24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church.  25 I became a minister of the church for your benefit when God gave me the task of fully proclaiming the word of God,  26 namely, the mystery that was hidden for past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to his saints.  27 God wanted to make known to them what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles—this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 We proclaim him as we admonish and teach everyone with all wisdom, so that we might present everyone perfect in Christ.  29 This is the goal I am laboring to reach, striving with his strength, which is powerfully at work in me.  Colossians 2 1 Indeed, I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those in Laodicea, and for all those who have not seen me personally. 2 I am doing this so that their hearts may be encouraged as they are brought together in love, and into all the wealth of assurance that understanding brings, into the knowledge of the mystery of God, which is Christ. [1]  3 All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in him. 4 I say this so that no one deceives you with persuasive speech that sounds reasonable.  5 For though I am absent bodily, I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your orderliness and the firmness of your faith in Christ. The Fullness That Is Ours in Christ 6 Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him,  7 by being rooted and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith just as you were taught, while you overflow in faith [2] with thanksgiving. Footnotes  Colossians 2:2 A few witnesses to the text read mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. Colossians 2:7 A few witnesses to the text omit in faith. A few read in him.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d0f3c479d27657da7a1bc1e676daf354 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 08</h3><h3>Colossians 1:24 – 2:7</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0708db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 08</h6> <p>Colossians 1:24 – 2:7 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0708db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0708db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 1</h3> <h4>Paul’s Service in Preaching the Gospel</h4> <p>24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church.  25 I became a minister of the church for your benefit when God gave me the task of fully proclaiming the word of God,  26 namely, the mystery that was hidden for past ages and generations, but now has been revealed to his saints.  27 God wanted to make known to them what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles—this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.</p> <p>28 We proclaim him as we admonish and teach everyone with all wisdom, so that we might present everyone perfect in Christ.  29 This is the goal I am laboring to reach, striving with his strength, which is powerfully at work in me.</p> <p> </p><h3>Colossians 2</h3> <p>1 Indeed, I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those in Laodicea, and for all those who have not seen me personally. 2 I am doing this so that their hearts may be encouraged as they are brought together in love, and into all the wealth of assurance that understanding brings, into the knowledge of the mystery of God, which is Christ. [1]  3 All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in him.</p> <p>4 I say this so that no one deceives you with persuasive speech that sounds reasonable.  5 For though I am absent bodily, I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your orderliness and the firmness of your faith in Christ.</p> <h4>The Fullness That Is Ours in Christ</h4> <p>6 Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him,  7 by being rooted and built up in him, and strengthened in the faith just as you were taught, while you overflow in faith [2] with thanksgiving.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Colossians 2:2 A few witnesses to the text read mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ.</li> <li>Colossians 2:7 A few witnesses to the text omit in faith. A few read in him.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_08_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2008" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2008&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31374" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2008&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_08_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2008&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_08_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 08

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 07Colossians 1:15-23 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 07 Colossians 1:15-23 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0707db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 1 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,  16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.  17 He is before all things, and all things hold together in him. 18 He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things he might have the highest rank.  19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,  20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself (whether things on earth or in heaven) by making peace through the blood of his cross. Reconciled Through Christ’s Death 21 At one time, you were alienated from God and hostile in your thinking as expressed through your evil deeds.  22 But now Christ reconciled you in his body of flesh through death, in order to present you holy, blameless, and faultless before him—  23 if you continue steadfast and firm in faith, without being moved away from the hope of the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a minister.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-b75394c18ddc569adda2883703c66c92 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 07</h3><h3>Colossians 1:15-23</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0707db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 07</h6> <p>Colossians 1:15-23 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0707db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0707db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 1</h3> <p>15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,  16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, things seen and unseen, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.  17 He is before all things, and all things hold together in him.</p> <p>18 He is also the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in all things he might have the highest rank.  19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,  20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself (whether things on earth or in heaven) by making peace through the blood of his cross.</p> <h4>Reconciled Through Christ’s Death</h4> <p>21 At one time, you were alienated from God and hostile in your thinking as expressed through your evil deeds.  22 But now Christ reconciled you in his body of flesh through death, in order to present you holy, blameless, and faultless before him—  23 if you continue steadfast and firm in faith, without being moved away from the hope of the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a minister.</p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_07_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2007" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2007&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31373" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2007&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_07_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2007&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_07_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 07

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 06Colossians 1:1-14 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 06 Colossians 1:1-14 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0706db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Colossians 1 Greeting 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the holy and faithful brothers [1] in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. [2] Paul’s Prayer for the Colossians 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,  4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints  5 because of the hope that is stored up for you in heaven. You have already heard about this in the word of truth, the gospel  6 that is present with you now. The gospel is bearing fruit and growing in the entire world, just as it also has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.  7 You learned this from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your [3] behalf.  8 He is the one who told us about your love in the Spirit. [4] 9 For this reason, from the day we heard about your love, we also have not stopped praying for you. We keep asking that you would be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,  10 so that you might live in a way that is worthy of the Lord. Our goal is that you please him by bearing fruit in every kind of good work and by growing in the knowledge of God,  11 as you are being strengthened with all power because of his glorious might working in you. Then you will have complete endurance and patience, joyfully  12 giving thanks to the Father, who qualified us [5] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. What the Father Did Through Christ 13 The Father rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,  14 in whom we have redemption, [6] the forgiveness of sins. Footnotes  Colossians 1:2 When context indicates it, the Greek word for brothers may refer to all fellow believers, male and female. Colossians 1:2 Some witnesses to the text add and our Lord Jesus Christ. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.) Colossians 1:7 Some witnesses to the text read our. Colossians 1:8 Or about the love the Spirit worked in you Colossians 1:12 Some witnesses to the text read you. Colossians 1:14 A few witnesses to the text add through his blood.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e6114a4ee638dd4ec1823897b01e0ef0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 06</h3><h3>Colossians 1:1-14</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0706db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 06</h6> <p>Colossians 1:1-14 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0706db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0706db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Colossians 1</h3> <h4>Greeting</h4> <p>1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,</p> <p>2 To the holy and faithful brothers [1] in Christ at Colossae:</p> <p>Grace to you and peace from God our Father. [2]</p> <h4>Paul’s Prayer for the Colossians</h4> <p>3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,  4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints  5 because of the hope that is stored up for you in heaven. You have already heard about this in the word of truth, the gospel  6 that is present with you now. The gospel is bearing fruit and growing in the entire world, just as it also has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.  7 You learned this from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on your [3] behalf.  8 He is the one who told us about your love in the Spirit. [4]</p> <p>9 For this reason, from the day we heard about your love, we also have not stopped praying for you. We keep asking that you would be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,  10 so that you might live in a way that is worthy of the Lord. Our goal is that you please him by bearing fruit in every kind of good work and by growing in the knowledge of God,  11 as you are being strengthened with all power because of his glorious might working in you. Then you will have complete endurance and patience, joyfully  12 giving thanks to the Father, who qualified us [5] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.</p> <h4>What the Father Did Through Christ</h4> <p>13 The Father rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,  14 in whom we have redemption, [6] the forgiveness of sins.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Colossians 1:2 When context indicates it, the Greek word for brothers may refer to all fellow believers, male and female.</li> <li>Colossians 1:2 Some witnesses to the text add and our Lord Jesus Christ. (“Witnesses to the text” mentioned in footnotes may include Greek manuscripts, lectionaries, translations, and quotations in the church fathers.)</li> <li>Colossians 1:7 Some witnesses to the text read our.</li> <li>Colossians 1:8 Or about the love the Spirit worked in you</li> <li>Colossians 1:12 Some witnesses to the text read you.</li> <li>Colossians 1:14 A few witnesses to the text add through his blood.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_06_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2006" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2006&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31372" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2006&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_06_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2006&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_06_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 06

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 05Ezekiel 47:13 – 48:35 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 05 Ezekiel 47:13 – 48:35 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0705db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Ezekiel 47 The Divisions of the Land 13 This is what the Lord God says. These are the boundaries you are to use to divide the land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel. (Joseph is to have two portions.) 14 You will assign equal portions of the land that I swore with uplifted hand to give to your fathers. This is how the land will be allotted to you as an inheritance. 15 These are to be the boundaries of the land: On the north side, the boundary goes from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo Hamath to Zedad, [1]  16 Beruthah, and Sibraim, which is on the border between the territories of Damascus and Hamath, as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.  17 So the border will be from the sea to Hazar Enon, on the border of Damascus to the north, which also is the border of Hamath. This is the north side. 18 On the east side, the border will run from Hazar Enon between Hauran and Damascus. Between Gilead and the land of Israel, the Jordan is the border as far as the Eastern Sea. [2] The border then will run to Tamar. [3] This is the east side. 19 On the south side, in the Negev, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Stream of Egypt to the Great Sea. This is the southern boundary in the Negev. 20 On the west side, the Great Sea is the border until a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This is the west side. 21 In this way you are to divide this land for yourselves, for the tribes of Israel.  22 You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have fathered children among you. They are to be treated like someone who is native-born among the sons of Israel. With you they are to receive allotments as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.  23 In whatever tribe an alien has settled, there you are to give him his inheritance, declares the Lord God. The New Holy Land The Northern Tribes  Ezekiel 48 1 These are the names of the tribes. The northern border runs east to west along the road between Hethlon, Lebo Hamath, and Hazar Enon, which forms the northern border of the territory of Damascus with the territory of Hamath. [4] South of that line there will be one portion for Dan. 2 South of [5] the boundary of Dan, from the east side to the west side of the land, there is to be one portion for Asher. 3 South of the boundary of Asher, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Naphtali. 4 South of the boundary of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Manasseh. 5 South of the boundary of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Ephraim. 6 South of the boundary of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Reuben. 7 South of the boundary of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Judah. The Central Holy Area 8 South of the boundary of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the special contribution you are to devote to special use. Its north-to-south width is twenty-five thousand cubits, [6] and its east-to-west length is equal to one of the tribal portions from the eastern side of the land to the western side. [7] The sanctuary will be in the midst of it. [8] The Place for the Temple 9 The contribution you are to devote to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. [9]  10 The holy contribution for the priests will be this: a rectangular area measuring twenty-five thousand cubits long on the north side, ten thousand cubits wide on the west, ten thousand cubits wide on the east, and twenty-five thousand cubits long on the south. The sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.  11 It will be for the priests, whoever has been consecrated from the sons of Zadok, who guarded the ministry for me, and who did not go astray when the other sons of Israel went astray, as also the Levites went astray.  12 It will be a special offering for them from the holy contribution of the land, a most holy district, beside the territory of the Levites. The Place for the Levites 13 The Levites are to have a rectangular allotment parallel to the territory of the priests. Twenty-five thousand cubits is its length, and its width is ten thousand cubits. Its whole length is twenty-five thousand cubits, and its width is ten thousand cubits.  14 They must not sell any part of it nor exchange any of it. No one can transfer these firstfruits of the land, because they are holy, belonging to the Lord. The City 15 The area five thousand cubits [10] wide that remains along the south edge of the square of twenty-five thousand cubits is common land for the city, for living space and for open land. The city is to be in its center, between the two halves.  16 These are the city’s dimensions: a square measuring four thousand five hundred cubits on the north side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the south side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the east side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the west side.  17 The open land belonging to the city will measure two hundred fifty cubits on the north side, and two hundred fifty cubits on the south, and two hundred fifty cubits on the east, and two hundred fifty cubits on the west. 18 The remaining area that runs lengthwise along the south side of the holy contribution will be ten thousand cubits east-to-west on the east side of the city, and ten thousand cubits east-to-west on the west side of the city. It shall be next to the holy contribution, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.  19 The workers of the city who cultivate it will be from all the tribes of Israel. 20 The entire holy contribution will be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, a square. Set apart this holy contribution, which includes the property of the city. The Territory of the Prince 21 What remains of the holy contribution will belong to the prince. It lies on both sides of the holy contribution and the property of the city, extending from the eastern north-to-south boundary of the special contribution (which is twenty-five thousand cubits long) to the eastern border of the land, and on the west side, it will extend from the western north-to-south boundary of the special contribution (which is twenty-five thousand cubits long) to the western border of the land. The two portions belonging to the prince run parallel to the tribal portions. The holy contribution and the temple sanctuary will be between the two halves of the prince’s area.  22 The area consisting of the property of the Levites and the property of the city is between the two tracts that will belong to the prince. The area between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin will belong to the prince. The Southern Tribes 23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side of the land to the west side is one portion for Benjamin. 24 South of the boundary of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Simeon. 25 South of the boundary of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Issachar. 26 South of the boundary of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Zebulun. 27 South of the boundary of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Gad. 28 South of the boundary of Gad on the southern side, the border will run from Tamar to the Waters of Meribah Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt, and to the Great Sea. 29 This is the land that you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord God. The City Once More 30 These are the outside boundaries of the city. The north side is four thousand five hundred cubits long.  31 The gates of the city are named after the tribes of Israel. Three gates are located on the north: one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, and one gate of Levi. 32 On the east side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, there are three gates: one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, and one gate of Dan. 33 On the south side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, there are three gates: one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, and one gate of Zebulun. 34 On the west side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, their gates are three: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, and one gate of Naphtali. 35 The perimeter of the city is eighteen thousand cubits, [11] and the name of the city from that day on is “The Lord Is There.” Footnotes  Ezekiel 47:15 The word order follows the Greek text. Ezekiel 47:18 The Dead Sea Ezekiel 47:18 The Greek text reads to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar (implying a Hebrew reading Tamar). The Hebrew text reads to the eastern sea you shall measure (Hebrew tamad). In Hebrew script r and d are sometimes indistinguishable. Ezekiel 48:1 The geographic details of this border are uncertain. It seems to lie considerably farther north than the tribal boundaries in the book of Joshua. Ezekiel 48:2 Literally next to Ezekiel 48:8 A little more than 8 miles Ezekiel 48:8 In the center of the holy area is a square 25,000 cubits by 25,000 cubits. East and west of this square is land for the prince. Ezekiel 48:8 Most interpreters believe that the sanctuary is not in the middle of the whole square, but in the middle of the priests’ portion of the square. See verse 10. Ezekiel 48:9 A little more than 8 miles by 3 miles in size, this portion is located along the north edge of the square. Ezekiel 48:15 A little more than 1½ miles Ezekiel 48:35 About 6 miles      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-e7ca1bdbf7eb8d37c45314d506774770 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 05</h3><h3>Ezekiel 47:13 – 48:35</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0705db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 05</h6> <p>Ezekiel 47:13 – 48:35 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0705db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0705db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Ezekiel 47</h3> <h4>The Divisions of the Land</h4> <p>13 This is what the Lord God says.</p> <p>These are the boundaries you are to use to divide the land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel.</p> <p>(Joseph is to have two portions.)</p> <p>14 You will assign equal portions of the land that I swore with uplifted hand to give to your fathers. This is how the land will be allotted to you as an inheritance.</p> <p>15 These are to be the boundaries of the land:</p> <p>On the north side, the boundary goes from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo Hamath to Zedad, [1]  16 Beruthah, and Sibraim, which is on the border between the territories of Damascus and Hamath, as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.  17 So the border will be from the sea to Hazar Enon, on the border of Damascus to the north, which also is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.</p> <p>18 On the east side, the border will run from Hazar Enon between Hauran and Damascus. Between Gilead and the land of Israel, the Jordan is the border as far as the Eastern Sea. [2] The border then will run to Tamar. [3] This is the east side.</p> <p>19 On the south side, in the Negev, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Stream of Egypt to the Great Sea. This is the southern boundary in the Negev.</p> <p>20 On the west side, the Great Sea is the border until a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This is the west side.</p> <p>21 In this way you are to divide this land for yourselves, for the tribes of Israel.  22 You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have fathered children among you. They are to be treated like someone who is native-born among the sons of Israel. With you they are to receive allotments as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.  23 In whatever tribe an alien has settled, there you are to give him his inheritance, declares the Lord God.</p> <h4>The New Holy Land<br/> The Northern Tribes</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezekiel 48</h3> <p>1 These are the names of the tribes.</p> <p>The northern border runs east to west along the road between Hethlon, Lebo Hamath, and Hazar Enon, which forms the northern border of the territory of Damascus with the territory of Hamath. [4] South of that line there will be one portion for Dan.<br/> 2 South of [5] the boundary of Dan, from the east side to the west side of the land, there is to be one portion for Asher.<br/> 3 South of the boundary of Asher, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Naphtali.<br/> 4 South of the boundary of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Manasseh.<br/> 5 South of the boundary of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Ephraim.<br/> 6 South of the boundary of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Reuben.<br/> 7 South of the boundary of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, there is to be one portion for Judah.</p> <h4>The Central Holy Area</h4> <p>8 South of the boundary of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the special contribution you are to devote to special use. Its north-to-south width is twenty-five thousand cubits, [6] and its east-to-west length is equal to one of the tribal portions from the eastern side of the land to the western side. [7] The sanctuary will be in the midst of it. [8]</p> <h4>The Place for the Temple</h4> <p>9 The contribution you are to devote to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide. [9]  10 The holy contribution for the priests will be this: a rectangular area measuring twenty-five thousand cubits long on the north side, ten thousand cubits wide on the west, ten thousand cubits wide on the east, and twenty-five thousand cubits long on the south. The sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.  11 It will be for the priests, whoever has been consecrated from the sons of Zadok, who guarded the ministry for me, and who did not go astray when the other sons of Israel went astray, as also the Levites went astray.  12 It will be a special offering for them from the holy contribution of the land, a most holy district, beside the territory of the Levites.</p> <h4>The Place for the Levites</h4> <p>13 The Levites are to have a rectangular allotment parallel to the territory of the priests. Twenty-five thousand cubits is its length, and its width is ten thousand cubits. Its whole length is twenty-five thousand cubits, and its width is ten thousand cubits.  14 They must not sell any part of it nor exchange any of it. No one can transfer these firstfruits of the land, because they are holy, belonging to the Lord.</p> <h4>The City</h4> <p>15 The area five thousand cubits [10] wide that remains along the south edge of the square of twenty-five thousand cubits is common land for the city, for living space and for open land. The city is to be in its center, between the two halves.  16 These are the city’s dimensions: a square measuring four thousand five hundred cubits on the north side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the south side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the east side, and four thousand five hundred cubits on the west side.  17 The open land belonging to the city will measure two hundred fifty cubits on the north side, and two hundred fifty cubits on the south, and two hundred fifty cubits on the east, and two hundred fifty cubits on the west.</p> <p>18 The remaining area that runs lengthwise along the south side of the holy contribution will be ten thousand cubits east-to-west on the east side of the city, and ten thousand cubits east-to-west on the west side of the city. It shall be next to the holy contribution, and its produce shall be food for the workers of the city.  19 The workers of the city who cultivate it will be from all the tribes of Israel.</p> <p>20 The entire holy contribution will be twenty-five thousand cubits by twenty-five thousand cubits, a square. Set apart this holy contribution, which includes the property of the city.</p> <h4>The Territory of the Prince</h4> <p>21 What remains of the holy contribution will belong to the prince. It lies on both sides of the holy contribution and the property of the city, extending from the eastern north-to-south boundary of the special contribution (which is twenty-five thousand cubits long) to the eastern border of the land, and on the west side, it will extend from the western north-to-south boundary of the special contribution (which is twenty-five thousand cubits long) to the western border of the land. The two portions belonging to the prince run parallel to the tribal portions. The holy contribution and the temple sanctuary will be between the two halves of the prince’s area.  22 The area consisting of the property of the Levites and the property of the city is between the two tracts that will belong to the prince. The area between the territory of Judah and the territory of Benjamin will belong to the prince.</p> <h4>The Southern Tribes</h4> <p>23 As for the rest of the tribes, from the east side of the land to the west side is one portion for Benjamin.<br/> 24 South of the boundary of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Simeon.<br/> 25 South of the boundary of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Issachar.<br/> 26 South of the boundary of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Zebulun.<br/> 27 South of the boundary of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, is one portion for Gad.<br/> 28 South of the boundary of Gad on the southern side, the border will run from Tamar to the Waters of Meribah Kadesh, to the Stream of Egypt, and to the Great Sea.</p> <p>29 This is the land that you are to allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the Lord God.</p> <h4>The City Once More</h4> <p>30 These are the outside boundaries of the city.</p> <p>The north side is four thousand five hundred cubits long.  31 The gates of the city are named after the tribes of Israel. Three gates are located on the north: one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, and one gate of Levi.</p> <p>32 On the east side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, there are three gates: one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, and one gate of Dan.</p> <p>33 On the south side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, there are three gates: one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, and one gate of Zebulun.</p> <p>34 On the west side, which is four thousand five hundred cubits long, their gates are three: one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, and one gate of Naphtali.</p> <p>35 The perimeter of the city is eighteen thousand cubits, [11] and the name of the city from that day on is “The Lord Is There.”</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezekiel 47:15 The word order follows the Greek text.</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:18 The Dead Sea</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:18 The Greek text reads to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar (implying a Hebrew reading Tamar). The Hebrew text reads to the eastern sea you shall measure (Hebrew tamad). In Hebrew script r and d are sometimes indistinguishable.</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:1 The geographic details of this border are uncertain. It seems to lie considerably farther north than the tribal boundaries in the book of Joshua.</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:2 Literally next to</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:8 A little more than 8 miles</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:8 In the center of the holy area is a square 25,000 cubits by 25,000 cubits. East and west of this square is land for the prince.</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:8 Most interpreters believe that the sanctuary is not in the middle of the whole square, but in the middle of the priests’ portion of the square. See verse 10.</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:9 A little more than 8 miles by 3 miles in size, this portion is located along the north edge of the square.</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:15 A little more than 1½ miles</li> <li>Ezekiel 48:35 About 6 miles</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_05_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2005" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2005&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31339" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2005&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_05_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2005&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_05_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 05

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 04Ezekiel 47:1-12 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 04 Ezekiel 47:1-12 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0704db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Ezekiel 47 Life-Giving Water in the New Creation 1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw that water was flowing out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. 2 He brought me out through the north gate that led into the inner courtyard and led me around on the outside of the temple to the outer gateway on the east side, and I saw that water was trickling out from its south side.  3 As the man went out toward the east, he had a measuring line in his hand. He measured off a thousand cubits, [1] and then he led me through the water. The water was ankle-deep.  4 Then he measured off another thousand cubits and led me through the water. The water was knee-deep. He measured a thousand more and led me through water that was now waist-deep.  5 He measured a thousand more, but now it was a river that I was not able to cross, because the water had risen so much that one would have to swim across it. It was a river that could not be forded. 6 Then he asked me, “Have you noticed anything, son of man?” and he led me back to the bank of the river.  7 When I returned there, I noticed that on the banks of the river there were a large number of trees, on both sides. 8 Then he said to me, “These waters are flowing out to the eastern part of the land. They go down to the Arabah and go into the sea, [2] into the sea whose waters are unusable, [3] and then the waters of the sea are made fresh. [4]  9 Every living creature that swarms can live wherever the stream flows. There will be a large number of fish because these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea have been made fresh, so every living creature can live everywhere the river goes.  10 There will be fishermen standing beside it from En Gedi to En Eglaim, and there will be places for them to spread their nets to dry. There will be all kinds of fish there, like the fish of the Great Sea [5]—so very many.  11 But its swamps and marshes will not be made fresh. They will be left to provide salt.  12 Beside the river, on both its banks, every kind of tree will grow for providing food. Their leaves will never wither, and their fruit will never fail. Every month they will bear fruit because their waters flow out from the sanctuary. Its fruit will provide food, and its leaves will be for healing. Footnotes  Ezekiel 47:3 About 1,750 feet Ezekiel 47:8 That is, the Dead Sea Ezekiel 47:8 The meaning of the phrase translated into the sea whose waters are unusable is uncertain. The Hebrew seems to read to the sea [the waters] which had been brought out. Ezekiel 47:8 Literally are healed Ezekiel 47:10 The Mediterranean Sea      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-894dc9222e921bf8fc12641eb2c237b6 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 04</h3><h3>Ezekiel 47:1-12</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0704db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 04</h6> <p>Ezekiel 47:1-12 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0704db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0704db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Ezekiel 47</h3> <h4>Life-Giving Water in the New Creation</h4> <p>1 Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw that water was flowing out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (the temple faced east). The water was flowing down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.</p> <p>2 He brought me out through the north gate that led into the inner courtyard and led me around on the outside of the temple to the outer gateway on the east side, and I saw that water was trickling out from its south side.  3 As the man went out toward the east, he had a measuring line in his hand. He measured off a thousand cubits, [1] and then he led me through the water. The water was ankle-deep.  4 Then he measured off another thousand cubits and led me through the water. The water was knee-deep. He measured a thousand more and led me through water that was now waist-deep.  5 He measured a thousand more, but now it was a river that I was not able to cross, because the water had risen so much that one would have to swim across it. It was a river that could not be forded.</p> <p>6 Then he asked me, “Have you noticed anything, son of man?” and he led me back to the bank of the river.  7 When I returned there, I noticed that on the banks of the river there were a large number of trees, on both sides.</p> <p>8 Then he said to me, “These waters are flowing out to the eastern part of the land. They go down to the Arabah and go into the sea, [2] into the sea whose waters are unusable, [3] and then the waters of the sea are made fresh. [4]  9 Every living creature that swarms can live wherever the stream flows. There will be a large number of fish because these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea have been made fresh, so every living creature can live everywhere the river goes.  10 There will be fishermen standing beside it from En Gedi to En Eglaim, and there will be places for them to spread their nets to dry. There will be all kinds of fish there, like the fish of the Great Sea [5]—so very many.  11 But its swamps and marshes will not be made fresh. They will be left to provide salt.  12 Beside the river, on both its banks, every kind of tree will grow for providing food. Their leaves will never wither, and their fruit will never fail. Every month they will bear fruit because their waters flow out from the sanctuary. Its fruit will provide food, and its leaves will be for healing.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezekiel 47:3 About 1,750 feet</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:8 That is, the Dead Sea</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:8 The meaning of the phrase translated into the sea whose waters are unusable is uncertain. The Hebrew seems to read to the sea [the waters] which had been brought out.</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:8 Literally are healed</li> <li>Ezekiel 47:10 The Mediterranean Sea</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.</em></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }  <br/> <h5>Share this entry</h5><ul><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_04_db/&amp;t=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2004" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Facebook</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/share?text=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2004&amp;url=https://wels.net/?p=31337" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;title=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2004&amp;url=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_04_db/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Share on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=Through%20My%20Bible%20Yr%2002%20%E2%80%93%20July%2004&amp;body=https://wels.net/bible3/02_07_04_db/">Share by Mail</a></li><li><a href="https://wels.net/technology-help/news-media-help/wels-flickr-sites/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Flickr</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welslutherans/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Instagram</a></li><li><a href="https://vimeo.com/wels" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Link to Vimeo</a></li></ul>

Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 04

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 03Ezekiel 45 – 46 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 03 Ezekiel 45 – 46 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0703db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Property for the Lord, for the Priests, and for the Prince  Ezekiel 45 1 When you cast lots to divide the land as an inheritance, you are to devote a contribution to the Lord, a holy area of the land. Its length is to be twenty-five thousand cubits and its width twenty thousand cubits. [1] Its entire area will be holy. 2 Within this area, a square five hundred by five hundred cubits [2] is to be set aside for the sanctuary. There is also to be an open area of fifty cubits all around it. 3 From this measured area, you are to measure off a separate area which has a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits. The sanctuary, the most holy place, will be in it.  4 It is to be a holy area of the land. [3] It will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 Also an area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide will be set aside for the Levites, the servants of the temple, as their possession, to provide them with cities to live in. [4] [5] 6 As the city’s property, you are to assign an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long [6] along one side of the holy contribution. [7] It will belong to the whole house of Israel. 7 For the prince, an area is to be set aside on both sides of the holy contribution and of the area for the city. It will run alongside the holy contribution and alongside the city’s property. On the west side of the city, it will extend west along the tribal boundaries to the western boundary of the land, and on the east side, it will extend eastward in the same way.  8 This land is to be the prince’s property in Israel, so that my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allot the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes. 9 This is what the Lord God says. You have done enough, you princes of Israel! Remove violence and mayhem, and practice justice and righteousness. Remove the burden from my people that you caused by evicting them from their land, declares the Lord God. 10 You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. [8]  11 The ephah and the bath are to follow one uniform standard. The bath will hold one tenth of a homer, and the ephah will hold one tenth of a homer. The standard is to be based on the homer.  12 The shekel is to be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels will be the weight of your mina. [9] Offerings and Festivals 13 This is the special contribution you should dedicate: Take one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and take one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. [10]  14 The prescribed portion of oil (the bath is the standard measure for the oil) is one tenth of a bath from each kor. [11] Ten baths make a kor, and ten baths are a homer. 15 Furthermore, one sheep shall be given from every flock, that is, from every two hundred sheep that comprise a flock from the well-watered land of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the fellowship offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.  16 All the people of the land are to contribute to this offering for the prince in Israel. 17 The prince then is responsible for the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings on the festivals, on the New Moons, and on the Sabbaths, that is, on all the appointed festivals for the house of Israel. He himself will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel. 18 This is what the Lord God says. In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.  19 The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the post of the gate of the inner courtyard.  20 You are to do so also on the seventh day of the month, for the sake of anyone who sins inadvertently or in ignorance, and so you shall make atonement for the temple. 21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall hold the Passover. During the festival, consisting of a week of seven days, unleavened bread must be eaten.  22 On that day the prince is to provide, on behalf of himself and all the people of the land, a bull for a sin offering.  23 On the seven days of the festival he is to provide a burnt offering for the Lord: seven bulls and seven rams without blemish for each day of the seven days, as well as a male goat for a sin offering for each day.  24 As a grain offering he is to provide an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah. 25 In the seventh month, at the festival starting on the fifteenth day of the month, he is to provide for seven days according to these same instructions, in regard to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil. Other Festivals and the Prince  Ezekiel 46 1 This is what the Lord God says. The gate into the inner courtyard which faces east must remain closed on the six work days, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.  2 The prince is to enter through the vestibule of the gateway at the outer, eastern end of the gatehouse and stand by the gatepost, and the priests are to offer his burnt offering and fellowship offerings. He is to prostrate himself on the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be closed until evening.  3 The people of the land are to prostrate themselves before the Lord at the entrance to that gate on Sabbaths and New Moons. 4 The burnt offering that the prince is to offer to the Lord on the day of the Sabbath is to consist of six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.  5 The grain offering is to be an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the grain offering is to be as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah.  6 On the day of the New Moon, he is to offer a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram. They are to be without blemish.  7 He is to provide an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram as a grain offering, and for the lambs as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah. 8 When the prince enters, he is to come in through the vestibule of the gateway, and he is to go out by the same way.  9 When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, anyone who enters through the north gate in order to prostrate himself must go out through the south gate, and anyone who enters through the south gate must go out through the north gate. No one may return through the same gate through which he entered. He definitely must leave by going straight ahead to the opposite gate.  10 The prince is to be in their midst. When they enter, he shall enter, and when they leave, both he and they shall leave. 11 At the pilgrimage festivals and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs it is to be as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah.  12 When the prince makes a voluntary offering to the Lord, either as a burnt offering or fellowship offering, the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings just as he does on the day of the Sabbath. When he goes out, the gate is to be closed after he leaves.  13 You are to provide a yearling lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord every day. Every morning you are to provide it.  14 You are to provide a grain offering with it every morning: one sixth of an ephah and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. It is a grain offering for the Lord. These are lasting statutes to be performed daily.  15 In this way they will offer the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a daily burnt offering. Inheritance of the Prince’s Property 16 This is what the Lord God says. If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is the son’s inheritance and will also belong to his sons. It is to be their property by inheritance.  17 But if the prince gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to him only until the year of liberty, [12] when it must revert to the prince. It is his inheritance alone and must remain with his sons.  18 The prince may not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. From his own property he is to give an inheritance to his sons, so that my people will not be scattered—not a single man from his property. The Kitchens for Sacrifices 19 Then he took me through the entrance into the holy rooms for the priests that were located on the north side of the temple, beside the north gatehouse. Looking toward the west, I saw that there was a special place at the back of the temple area. [13]  20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to boil the restitution offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offerings in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard and transmit holiness to the people.” 21 Then he brought me out to the outer courtyard and led me past the four corners of the courtyard. I saw there was a court at each corner of the courtyard [14]— a court in each corner of the courtyard. [15]  22 In the four corners of the courtyard were enclosed [16] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide [17]—the same measurement for each of the four of them. [18]  23 A stone structure went all around the inside of all four of the rooms, and hearths for boiling were constructed beneath the structure all the way around.  24 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister in the temple are to boil the sacrifices of the people.” Footnotes  Ezekiel 45:1 This area is somewhat more than eight miles by six miles. A Hebrew variant says that the district is 10,000 cubits wide. The Greek text says that it is 20,000 cubits wide. Which measurement is correct depends on whether the area being measured here is the whole district for both priests and Levites or only the portion for the priests. The context seems to refer to the whole district for the clergy, which was 20,000 cubits wide. Ezekiel 45:2 About 875 feet by 875 feet—smaller than today’s Temple Mount Ezekiel 45:4 This area is a band extending across the top 40% of the special area for the Lord. Ezekiel 45:5 The translation follows the Greek text. The Hebrew reads they will have as their possession twenty rooms. Ezekiel 45:5 This area covers the 40% of the special area that lies south of the area for the priests and the temple. Ezekiel 45:6 About 1.6 miles by 8.3 miles Ezekiel 45:6 Along the south side Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah is a measure of volume used for solids. A bath is a measure of volume for liquids. In this section, since ancient measurements are compared to other ancient measurements, the ancient measurements are retained rather than converting to modern measurements, which is the EHV’s usual practice. The value of many of these measurements is uncertain. An ephah is equal to about 20 quarts or 2⁄3 of a bushel. A bath is about 6 gallons. A homer is 10 ephahs or 10 baths, that is, 6 bushels or 60 gallons. A hin is about 1⁄6 of a bath, that is, 1 gallon. A shekel is about 4⁄10 ounce. A mina is about 1½ pounds or 24 ounces. Ezekiel 45:12 It is not apparent why such an unusual method is used to obtain the weight 60 shekels. Ezekiel 45:13 About 1.6% Ezekiel 45:14 About 1% Ezekiel 46:17 That is, the jubilee year Ezekiel 46:19 The meaning of this verse is uncertain. Apparently Ezekiel was led through or alongside feature Q so that he could see feature T on the diagram. For clarity, the translation provides some details that are not explicitly stated in the text. Ezekiel 46:21 Feature U on the diagram Ezekiel 46:21 Many translations omit the repetition of the final words. The double phrase is the equivalent of each and every. Ezekiel 46:22 The meaning of this word is uncertain. Ezekiel 46:22 About 70 feet by 52 feet Ezekiel 46:22 The last word in the Hebrew text of verse 22 is marked for omission by delete marks written in the Hebrew text. The translation omits this word.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. 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#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-8e92add05875e7039865408323851255 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 03</h3><h3>Ezekiel 45 – 46</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0703db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 03</h6> <p>Ezekiel 45 – 46 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0703db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0703db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h4>Property for the Lord,<br/> for the Priests, and for the Prince</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezekiel 45</h3> <p>1 When you cast lots to divide the land as an inheritance, you are to devote a contribution to the Lord, a holy area of the land. Its length is to be twenty-five thousand cubits and its width twenty thousand cubits. [1] Its entire area will be holy.</p> <p>2 Within this area, a square five hundred by five hundred cubits [2] is to be set aside for the sanctuary. There is also to be an open area of fifty cubits all around it.</p> <p>3 From this measured area, you are to measure off a separate area which has a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits. The sanctuary, the most holy place, will be in it.  4 It is to be a holy area of the land. [3] It will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who draw near to serve the Lord. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy place for the sanctuary.</p> <p>5 Also an area twenty-five thousand cubits long and ten thousand cubits wide will be set aside for the Levites, the servants of the temple, as their possession, to provide them with cities to live in. [4] [5]</p> <p>6 As the city’s property, you are to assign an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand cubits long [6] along one side of the holy contribution. [7] It will belong to the whole house of Israel.</p> <p>7 For the prince, an area is to be set aside on both sides of the holy contribution and of the area for the city. It will run alongside the holy contribution and alongside the city’s property. On the west side of the city, it will extend west along the tribal boundaries to the western boundary of the land, and on the east side, it will extend eastward in the same way.  8 This land is to be the prince’s property in Israel, so that my princes will no longer oppress my people but will allot the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.</p> <p>9 This is what the Lord God says. You have done enough, you princes of Israel! Remove violence and mayhem, and practice justice and righteousness. Remove the burden from my people that you caused by evicting them from their land, declares the Lord God.</p> <p>10 You must have honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath. [8]  11 The ephah and the bath are to follow one uniform standard. The bath will hold one tenth of a homer, and the ephah will hold one tenth of a homer. The standard is to be based on the homer.  12 The shekel is to be twenty gerahs. Twenty shekels, twenty-five shekels, and fifteen shekels will be the weight of your mina. [9]</p> <h4>Offerings and Festivals</h4> <p>13 This is the special contribution you should dedicate: Take one sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and take one sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley. [10]  14 The prescribed portion of oil (the bath is the standard measure for the oil) is one tenth of a bath from each kor. [11] Ten baths make a kor, and ten baths are a homer.</p> <p>15 Furthermore, one sheep shall be given from every flock, that is, from every two hundred sheep that comprise a flock from the well-watered land of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, the burnt offerings, and the fellowship offerings, to make atonement for them, declares the Lord God.  16 All the people of the land are to contribute to this offering for the prince in Israel.</p> <p>17 The prince then is responsible for the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the drink offerings on the festivals, on the New Moons, and on the Sabbaths, that is, on all the appointed festivals for the house of Israel. He himself will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Israel.</p> <p>18 This is what the Lord God says. In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.  19 The priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the post of the gate of the inner courtyard.  20 You are to do so also on the seventh day of the month, for the sake of anyone who sins inadvertently or in ignorance, and so you shall make atonement for the temple.</p> <p>21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall hold the Passover. During the festival, consisting of a week of seven days, unleavened bread must be eaten.  22 On that day the prince is to provide, on behalf of himself and all the people of the land, a bull for a sin offering.  23 On the seven days of the festival he is to provide a burnt offering for the Lord: seven bulls and seven rams without blemish for each day of the seven days, as well as a male goat for a sin offering for each day.  24 As a grain offering he is to provide an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah.</p> <p>25 In the seventh month, at the festival starting on the fifteenth day of the month, he is to provide for seven days according to these same instructions, in regard to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.</p> <h4>Other Festivals and the Prince</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezekiel 46</h3> <p>1 This is what the Lord God says.</p> <p>The gate into the inner courtyard which faces east must remain closed on the six work days, but on the Sabbath day it is to be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened.  2 The prince is to enter through the vestibule of the gateway at the outer, eastern end of the gatehouse and stand by the gatepost, and the priests are to offer his burnt offering and fellowship offerings. He is to prostrate himself on the threshold of the gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be closed until evening.  3 The people of the land are to prostrate themselves before the Lord at the entrance to that gate on Sabbaths and New Moons.</p> <p>4 The burnt offering that the prince is to offer to the Lord on the day of the Sabbath is to consist of six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish.  5 The grain offering is to be an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the grain offering is to be as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah.  6 On the day of the New Moon, he is to offer a young bull without blemish, six lambs, and a ram. They are to be without blemish.  7 He is to provide an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram as a grain offering, and for the lambs as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah.</p> <p>8 When the prince enters, he is to come in through the vestibule of the gateway, and he is to go out by the same way.  9 When the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed festivals, anyone who enters through the north gate in order to prostrate himself must go out through the south gate, and anyone who enters through the south gate must go out through the north gate. No one may return through the same gate through which he entered. He definitely must leave by going straight ahead to the opposite gate.  10 The prince is to be in their midst. When they enter, he shall enter, and when they leave, both he and they shall leave.</p> <p>11 At the pilgrimage festivals and the appointed festivals, the grain offering is to be an ephah for a bull and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs it is to be as much as he can afford, with a hin of oil per ephah.  12 When the prince makes a voluntary offering to the Lord, either as a burnt offering or fellowship offering, the gate facing east is to be opened for him. He is to offer his burnt offering or his fellowship offerings just as he does on the day of the Sabbath. When he goes out, the gate is to be closed after he leaves.  13 You are to provide a yearling lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord every day. Every morning you are to provide it.  14 You are to provide a grain offering with it every morning: one sixth of an ephah and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour. It is a grain offering for the Lord. These are lasting statutes to be performed daily.  15 In this way they will offer the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a daily burnt offering.</p> <h4>Inheritance of the Prince’s Property</h4> <p>16 This is what the Lord God says.</p> <p>If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons, it is the son’s inheritance and will also belong to his sons. It is to be their property by inheritance.  17 But if the prince gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to him only until the year of liberty, [12] when it must revert to the prince. It is his inheritance alone and must remain with his sons.  18 The prince may not take any of the inheritance of the people by evicting them from their property. From his own property he is to give an inheritance to his sons, so that my people will not be scattered—not a single man from his property.</p> <h4>The Kitchens for Sacrifices</h4> <p>19 Then he took me through the entrance into the holy rooms for the priests that were located on the north side of the temple, beside the north gatehouse. Looking toward the west, I saw that there was a special place at the back of the temple area. [13]  20 He said to me, “This is the place where the priests are to boil the restitution offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offerings in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard and transmit holiness to the people.”</p> <p>21 Then he brought me out to the outer courtyard and led me past the four corners of the courtyard. I saw there was a court at each corner of the courtyard [14]— a court in each corner of the courtyard. [15]  22 In the four corners of the courtyard were enclosed [16] courts, forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide [17]—the same measurement for each of the four of them. [18]  23 A stone structure went all around the inside of all four of the rooms, and hearths for boiling were constructed beneath the structure all the way around.  24 Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister in the temple are to boil the sacrifices of the people.”</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezekiel 45:1 This area is somewhat more than eight miles by six miles. A Hebrew variant says that the district is 10,000 cubits wide. The Greek text says that it is 20,000 cubits wide. Which measurement is correct depends on whether the area being measured here is the whole district for both priests and Levites or only the portion for the priests. The context seems to refer to the whole district for the clergy, which was 20,000 cubits wide.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:2 About 875 feet by 875 feet—smaller than today’s Temple Mount</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:4 This area is a band extending across the top 40% of the special area for the Lord.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:5 The translation follows the Greek text. The Hebrew reads they will have as their possession twenty rooms.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:5 This area covers the 40% of the special area that lies south of the area for the priests and the temple.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:6 About 1.6 miles by 8.3 miles</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:6 Along the south side</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:10 An ephah is a measure of volume used for solids. A bath is a measure of volume for liquids. In this section, since ancient measurements are compared to other ancient measurements, the ancient measurements are retained rather than converting to modern measurements, which is the EHV’s usual practice. The value of many of these measurements is uncertain. An ephah is equal to about 20 quarts or 2⁄3 of a bushel. A bath is about 6 gallons. A homer is 10 ephahs or 10 baths, that is, 6 bushels or 60 gallons. A hin is about 1⁄6 of a bath, that is, 1 gallon. A shekel is about 4⁄10 ounce. A mina is about 1½ pounds or 24 ounces.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:12 It is not apparent why such an unusual method is used to obtain the weight 60 shekels.</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:13 About 1.6%</li> <li>Ezekiel 45:14 About 1%</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:17 That is, the jubilee year</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:19 The meaning of this verse is uncertain. Apparently Ezekiel was led through or alongside feature Q so that he could see feature T on the diagram. For clarity, the translation provides some details that are not explicitly stated in the text.</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:21 Feature U on the diagram</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:21 Many translations omit the repetition of the final words. The double phrase is the equivalent of each and every.</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:22 The meaning of this word is uncertain.</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:22 About 70 feet by 52 feet</li> <li>Ezekiel 46:22 The last word in the Hebrew text of verse 22 is marked for omission by delete marks written in the Hebrew text. The translation omits this word.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. 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Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 03

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 02Ezekiel 43:13 – 44:31 LISTEN HERE Through My Bible – July 02 Ezekiel 43:13 – 44:31 (EHV) https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0702db.mp3 See series: Through My Bible Ezekiel 43 The Great Altar in the Courtyard 13 These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a long cubit is an ordinary cubit plus a handbreadth). The gutter [1] at the base of the altar is one cubit deep and one cubit wide with a rim of one span [2] around its edge. The height of the altar is as follows:  14 From the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is two cubits, and the width of the ledge is one cubit. From the lower ledge to the upper ledge is four cubits. The upper ledge has a width of one cubit.  15 The hearth is four cubits high, and four horns extend upward from the hearth. [3]  16 The hearth is twelve cubits by twelve cubits, a square with four equal sides.  17 The upper ledge is fourteen cubits by fourteen cubits, with four equal sides. The ridge [4] around it is half a cubit, and it has a gutter of one cubit all around. [5] Its ramp [6] faces east. 18 Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says. These are the ceremonial requirements for the altar on the day when it is erected, to present burnt offerings on it and to splash blood on it.  19 You are to provide a young bull for a sin offering. Provide it to the levitical priests who are from the descendants of Zadok, who draw near to me to serve me, declares the Lord God.  20 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the altar’s four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the ridge all around, and so you are to purify [7] it and make atonement for it.  21 Then you are to take the bull that is the sin offering, and the priest is to burn it at the appointed place in the temple area, outside the sanctuary. 22 “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.  23 When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish.  24 You are to present them before the Lord, and the priests are to throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.  25 For seven days you are to offer a goat for a sin offering each day, as well as a young bull and a ram from the flock. They must all be without blemish.  26 For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar, cleanse it, and, in this way, consecrate it.  27 When they have fulfilled those days, on the eighth day and thereafter, the priests are to offer on the altar your whole burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord God.” The Prince  Ezekiel 44 1 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faces east, but it was closed. 2 The Lord said to me, “This gate must remain closed and not be opened. No man may enter through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore, it is to remain closed.  3 The prince, because he is the prince, may sit in it to eat food in the presence of the Lord. He must enter through the vestibule of the gateway, and he must go out the same way.” The Purity of the Temple 4 Next, he brought me through the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked, and the Glory of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord, and I fell on my face.  5 The Lord said this to me. Son of man, pay attention. Watch carefully and listen carefully [8] to what I am telling you regarding all the regulations of the temple of the Lord and all the instructions concerning it. Pay attention to the entrance of the temple and to all the exits of the sanctuary. 6 Say this to the rebellion, that is, to the house of Israel. This is what the Lord God says. There has been more than enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.  7 You even brought foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, into my sanctuary to desecrate it—into my own house!—even while you were offering my food, namely, the fat and the blood. In this way they broke my covenant in addition to all your abominations. 8 You have not faithfully guarded my holy things. Instead, you appointed others to be guards at my sanctuary in your place.  9 This is what the Lord God says. No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, may enter my sanctuary—no foreigner at all from those who are among the people of Israel. The Purity of the Priests and Levites 10 What’s more, the Levites who went far from me when Israel strayed away, those who wandered away from me to follow their filthy idols, they must bear the consequences of their guilt.  11 Nevertheless, the Levites shall be in my sanctuary serving as guards over the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices for the people. They shall stand before the people to serve them.  12 But because they formerly served them in front of their filthy idols and became a stumbling block that made the house of Israel guilty, therefore I have raised my hand in an oath against them, declares the Lord God, and they must bear the consequences of their guilt.  13 They may not approach me to serve as priests for me, nor may they approach any of my holy things or the most holy offerings. They must bear their shame and the consequences of the abominations that they committed.  14 Yet I will make them guardians of the ministry of the temple, in charge of all the duties of the temple and of everything that has to be done in it. 15 But the levitical priests who are the sons of Zadok, those who faithfully performed the duty of guarding the ministry of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel strayed away from me, they may approach me to serve me, and they may stand before me to offer the fat and the blood to me, declares the Lord God.  16 They alone may enter my sanctuary. They alone may approach my table to minister to me, and they shall perform the duty of guarding the ministry of the temple for me. 17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen clothing. No wool should be on them while they minister in the gates of the inner courtyard or inside the temple.  18 They are to have linen turbans on their heads and linen shorts on their hips. They should wear nothing that causes sweat.  19 When they go out into the outer courtyard [9] to the people, they must take off their vestments in which they have been ministering and leave them in the holy rooms. Then they must put on other clothing so that they do not transmit holiness to the people by their vestments. 20 They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long and unkempt. They must keep the hair on their heads neatly trimmed.  21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.  22 The priests must not take a widow or a divorced woman for themselves as a wife, but only virgins who are seed from the house of Israel. But priests may marry a widow who is a widow of a priest.  23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and make them knowledgeable in distinguishing the unclean from the clean. 24 In case of a dispute, they are to officiate as judges, and they must render their judgment concerning that case on the basis of the precedents in my judgments. They must observe my instructions and my regulations regarding all my appointed festivals, and they must keep my Sabbaths holy. 25 They must not go near a dead person and make themselves ceremonially unclean by doing so. Only in the case of father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister may they make themselves unclean.  26 After a priest has been purified, seven days must be counted off for him.  27 On the day he enters into the sanctuary, into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he must offer a sin offering for himself, declares the Lord God. 28 This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance. You must not give them property in Israel. I am their property.  29 They may eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the restitution offerings, and every devoted thing in Israel will belong to them.  30 The first from all firstfruits of all kinds and every special contribution of any kind from all your contributions will belong to the priests. The first of your ground grain [10] you must give to the priest in order that a blessing may rest on your house.  31 No animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals, whether a bird or an animal, may be eaten by the priests. Footnotes  Ezekiel 43:13 Or trench Ezekiel 43:13 A span is nine inches. Ezekiel 43:15 The altar is about 18 feet tall. Its width is about 25 feet. Ezekiel 43:17 Or rim Ezekiel 43:17 Without the gutter or the horns, the altar is 10 cubits high (2+4+4). Its width at the base without the gutter is 16 cubits (1+1+12+1+1). Ezekiel 43:17 The Hebrew word may also mean steps, but Exodus 20:26 seems to forbid steps up to the altar. Ezekiel 43:20 The Hebrew is de-sin. Ezekiel 44:5 Literally set your heart on, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears Ezekiel 44:19 The Hebrew text has the words into the outer courtyard two times. Ezekiel 44:30 The meaning of this term is uncertain.      #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }    The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.    #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4vzadh-3f04b370105df1fd314a2a9d83e55b26{ height:50px; }   Share this entryShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare by MailLink to FlickrLink to InstagramLink to Vimeo

#top .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0{ padding-bottom:10px; } body .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{ font-size:25px; } .av-special-heading.av-gs9o3p-d5ec6a5b4d6624497545d4690f94d9d0 .av-subheading{ font-size:15px; }  <h3>Through My Bible Yr 02 – July 02</h3><h3>Ezekiel 43:13 – 44:31</h3> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0702db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LISTEN HERE</a> <h6>Through My Bible – July 02</h6> <p>Ezekiel 43:13 – 44:31 (EHV)<br/> <a href="https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0702db.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://wels2.blob.core.windows.net/tmb-ehv/02-0702db.mp3</a><br/> <em>See series:</em> <a href="http://www.wels.net/serving-you/bible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Through My Bible</a></p> <h3>Ezekiel 43</h3> <h4>The Great Altar in the Courtyard</h4> <p>13 These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a long cubit is an ordinary cubit plus a handbreadth). The gutter [1] at the base of the altar is one cubit deep and one cubit wide with a rim of one span [2] around its edge. The height of the altar is as follows:  14 From the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is two cubits, and the width of the ledge is one cubit. From the lower ledge to the upper ledge is four cubits. The upper ledge has a width of one cubit.  15 The hearth is four cubits high, and four horns extend upward from the hearth. [3]  16 The hearth is twelve cubits by twelve cubits, a square with four equal sides.  17 The upper ledge is fourteen cubits by fourteen cubits, with four equal sides. The ridge [4] around it is half a cubit, and it has a gutter of one cubit all around. [5] Its ramp [6] faces east.</p> <p>18 Then he said to me, “Son of man, this is what the Lord God says. These are the ceremonial requirements for the altar on the day when it is erected, to present burnt offerings on it and to splash blood on it.  19 You are to provide a young bull for a sin offering. Provide it to the levitical priests who are from the descendants of Zadok, who draw near to me to serve me, declares the Lord God.  20 You are to take some of its blood and put it on the altar’s four horns, on the four corners of the ledge, and on the ridge all around, and so you are to purify [7] it and make atonement for it.  21 Then you are to take the bull that is the sin offering, and the priest is to burn it at the appointed place in the temple area, outside the sanctuary.</p> <p>22 “On the second day you are to offer a male goat without blemish as a sin offering, and the altar is to be purified as it was purified with the bull.  23 When you have finished purifying it, you are to offer a young bull without blemish and a ram without blemish.  24 You are to present them before the Lord, and the priests are to throw salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.  25 For seven days you are to offer a goat for a sin offering each day, as well as a young bull and a ram from the flock. They must all be without blemish.  26 For seven days they are to make atonement for the altar, cleanse it, and, in this way, consecrate it.  27 When they have fulfilled those days, on the eighth day and thereafter, the priests are to offer on the altar your whole burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and I will accept you, declares the Lord God.”</p> <h4>The Prince</h4> <p> </p><h3>Ezekiel 44</h3> <p>1 Then he brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary that faces east, but it was closed. 2 The Lord said to me, “This gate must remain closed and not be opened. No man may enter through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it. Therefore, it is to remain closed.  3 The prince, because he is the prince, may sit in it to eat food in the presence of the Lord. He must enter through the vestibule of the gateway, and he must go out the same way.”</p> <h4>The Purity of the Temple</h4> <p>4 Next, he brought me through the north gate to the front of the temple. I looked, and the Glory of the Lord had filled the temple of the Lord, and I fell on my face.  5 The Lord said this to me.</p> <p>Son of man, pay attention. Watch carefully and listen carefully [8] to what I am telling you regarding all the regulations of the temple of the Lord and all the instructions concerning it. Pay attention to the entrance of the temple and to all the exits of the sanctuary.</p> <p>6 Say this to the rebellion, that is, to the house of Israel. This is what the Lord God says. There has been more than enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel.  7 You even brought foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, into my sanctuary to desecrate it—into my own house!—even while you were offering my food, namely, the fat and the blood. In this way they broke my covenant in addition to all your abominations.</p> <p>8 You have not faithfully guarded my holy things. Instead, you appointed others to be guards at my sanctuary in your place.  9 This is what the Lord God says. No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, may enter my sanctuary—no foreigner at all from those who are among the people of Israel.</p> <h4>The Purity of the Priests and Levites</h4> <p>10 What’s more, the Levites who went far from me when Israel strayed away, those who wandered away from me to follow their filthy idols, they must bear the consequences of their guilt.  11 Nevertheless, the Levites shall be in my sanctuary serving as guards over the gates of the temple and ministering in the temple. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices for the people. They shall stand before the people to serve them.  12 But because they formerly served them in front of their filthy idols and became a stumbling block that made the house of Israel guilty, therefore I have raised my hand in an oath against them, declares the Lord God, and they must bear the consequences of their guilt.  13 They may not approach me to serve as priests for me, nor may they approach any of my holy things or the most holy offerings. They must bear their shame and the consequences of the abominations that they committed.  14 Yet I will make them guardians of the ministry of the temple, in charge of all the duties of the temple and of everything that has to be done in it.</p> <p>15 But the levitical priests who are the sons of Zadok, those who faithfully performed the duty of guarding the ministry of my sanctuary when the sons of Israel strayed away from me, they may approach me to serve me, and they may stand before me to offer the fat and the blood to me, declares the Lord God.  16 They alone may enter my sanctuary. They alone may approach my table to minister to me, and they shall perform the duty of guarding the ministry of the temple for me.</p> <p>17 When they enter the gates of the inner court, they must wear linen clothing. No wool should be on them while they minister in the gates of the inner courtyard or inside the temple.  18 They are to have linen turbans on their heads and linen shorts on their hips. They should wear nothing that causes sweat.  19 When they go out into the outer courtyard [9] to the people, they must take off their vestments in which they have been ministering and leave them in the holy rooms. Then they must put on other clothing so that they do not transmit holiness to the people by their vestments.</p> <p>20 They must not shave their heads or let their hair grow long and unkempt. They must keep the hair on their heads neatly trimmed.  21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner courtyard.  22 The priests must not take a widow or a divorced woman for themselves as a wife, but only virgins who are seed from the house of Israel. But priests may marry a widow who is a widow of a priest.  23 They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and make them knowledgeable in distinguishing the unclean from the clean.</p> <p>24 In case of a dispute, they are to officiate as judges, and they must render their judgment concerning that case on the basis of the precedents in my judgments. They must observe my instructions and my regulations regarding all my appointed festivals, and they must keep my Sabbaths holy.</p> <p>25 They must not go near a dead person and make themselves ceremonially unclean by doing so. Only in the case of father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister may they make themselves unclean.  26 After a priest has been purified, seven days must be counted off for him.  27 On the day he enters into the sanctuary, into the inner courtyard to minister in the sanctuary, he must offer a sin offering for himself, declares the Lord God.</p> <p>28 This will be their inheritance: I am their inheritance. You must not give them property in Israel. I am their property.  29 They may eat the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the restitution offerings, and every devoted thing in Israel will belong to them.  30 The first from all firstfruits of all kinds and every special contribution of any kind from all your contributions will belong to the priests. The first of your ground grain [10] you must give to the priest in order that a blessing may rest on your house.  31 No animal that died naturally or was torn by wild animals, whether a bird or an animal, may be eaten by the priests.</p> <h4>Footnotes</h4> <ol> <li>Ezekiel 43:13 Or trench</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:13 A span is nine inches.</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:15 The altar is about 18 feet tall. Its width is about 25 feet.</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:17 Or rim</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:17 Without the gutter or the horns, the altar is 10 cubits high (2+4+4). Its width at the base without the gutter is 16 cubits (1+1+12+1+1).</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:17 The Hebrew word may also mean steps, but Exodus 20:26 seems to forbid steps up to the altar.</li> <li>Ezekiel 43:20 The Hebrew is de-sin.</li> <li>Ezekiel 44:5 Literally set your heart on, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears</li> <li>Ezekiel 44:19 The Hebrew text has the words into the outer courtyard two times.</li> <li>Ezekiel 44:30 The meaning of this term is uncertain.</li> </ol> <p></p> <br/>   #top .hr.hr-invisible.av-aocsdx-89cb4ca21532423cf697fc393b6fcee0{ height:10px; }  <br/> <br/> <p><em>The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. 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