2 Samuel 23:1
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The Last Words of David
23 Now these are the last words of David:
The oracle of David, son of Jesse,
the oracle of the man whom God exalted,[a]
the anointed of the God of Jacob,
the favorite of the Strong One of Israel:(A)
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- 23.1 Q ms: MT who was raised on high
2 Samuel 7:8-9
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8 Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be prince over my people Israel,(A) 9 and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you, and I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.(B)
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1 Samuel 16:12-13
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12 He sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. The Lord said, “Rise and anoint him, for this is the one.”(A) 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward. Samuel then set out and went to Ramah.(B)
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Psalm 89:20
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20 I have found my servant David;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;(A)
Psalm 78:70-71
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70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(A)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(B)
James 5:13
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The Prayer of Faith
13 Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise.(A)
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Colossians 3:16
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16 Let the word of Christ[a] dwell in you richly; teach and admonish one another in all wisdom; and with gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.[b](A)
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Luke 24:44
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44 Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”(A)
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2 Peter 1:13-15
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13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body,[a] to refresh your memory,(A) 14 since I know that my death[b] will come soon, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.(B) 15 And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things.
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Ephesians 5:19-20
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19 as you sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to one another, singing and making melody to the Lord in your hearts,(A) 20 giving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,(B)
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Luke 20:42
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42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms,
‘The Lord said to my Lord,
“Sit at my right hand(A)
Amos 6:5
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5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David improvise on instruments of music,(A)
Psalm 72:20
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20 The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.
Psalm 2:6
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6 “I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill.”(A)
1 Chronicles 16:9
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9 Sing to him, sing praises to him;
tell of all his wonderful works.
1 Chronicles 16:7
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David’s Psalm of Thanksgiving
7 Then on that day David first appointed the singing of praises to the Lord by Asaph and his kindred.(A)
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1 Chronicles 16:4-5
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4 He appointed certain of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. 5 Asaph was the chief, and second to him was Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,(A)
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1 Samuel 2:10
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10 The Lord! His adversaries will be shattered;
the Most High[a] will thunder in heaven.
The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;
he will give strength to his king
and exalt the power of his anointed.”(A)
Footnotes
- 2.10 Cn: Heb against him he
Joshua 23
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Joshua Exhorts the People
23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,(A) 2 Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders and heads, their judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years,(B) 3 and you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.(C) 4 I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. 5 The Lord your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight, and you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God promised you.(D) 6 Therefore be very steadfast to observe and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right nor to the left,(E) 7 so that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow yourselves down to them,(F) 8 but hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.(G) 9 For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations, and as for you, no one has been able to withstand you to this day.(H) 10 One of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he promised you.(I) 11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God. 12 For if you turn back and join the survivors of these nations left here among you and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,(J) 13 know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(K)
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.(L) 15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(M) 16 If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.”
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Deuteronomy 33:1
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Moses’s Final Blessing on Israel
33 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death.(A)
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Genesis 49:1
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Jacob’s Last Words to His Sons
49 Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, that I may tell you what will happen to you in days to come.(A)
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