37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me,(A) because you have no room for my word.

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37 I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.

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You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name,(A) and have not grown weary.

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And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

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Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women. I have told the men not to lay a hand on you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.”

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Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

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and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go, disguise yourself, so you won’t be recognized as the wife of Jeroboam. Then go to Shiloh. Ahijah(A) the prophet is there—the one who told me I would be king over this people.

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And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people.

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28 I still dread(A) all my sufferings,
    for I know you will not hold me innocent.(B)

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28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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20 the king’s anger may flare up, and he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you know they would shoot arrows from the wall?

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20 And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

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21 Who killed Abimelek(A) son of Jerub-Besheth[a]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall,(B) so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 11:21 Also known as Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon)

21 Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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16 each is so close to the next
    that no air can pass between.

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16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

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The Lord’s Grace to Paul

12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength,(A) that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service.(B)

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12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

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13 Return their cloak by sunset(A) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.(B) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.(C)

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13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

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