Ezra 10:4
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4 Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; (A)be strong and do it.”
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1 Chronicles 28:10
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10 Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; (A)be strong and do it.”
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Hebrews 12:12-13
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12 Therefore (A)lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and (B)make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint (C)but rather be healed.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
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10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (A)do it with your might,[a] (B)for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:10 Or finds to do with your might, do it
1 Chronicles 22:19
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19 Now (A)set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, (B)so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built (C)for the name of the Lord.”
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Mark 13:34
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34 (A)It is like a man (B)going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants[a] in charge, (C)each with his work, and commands (D)the doorkeeper to stay awake.
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- Mark 13:34 Or bondservants
Isaiah 35:3-4
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3 (A)Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who have an anxious heart,
“Be strong; fear not!
(B)Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you.”
Hebrews 10:24
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24 And (A)let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
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1 Chronicles 28:21
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21 And behold the (A)divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be (B)every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command.”
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1 Chronicles 22:16
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16 gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! (A)The Lord be with you!”
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Joshua 7:10-26
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The Sin of Achan
10 The Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face? 11 Israel has sinned; they have (A)transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the (B)devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings. 12 (C)Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They (D)turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become (E)devoted for destruction.[a] I will be with you no more, unless you destroy (F)the devoted things from among you. 13 Get up! Consecrate the people and say, (G)‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the Lord, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.” 14 In the morning therefore you shall be brought near (H)by your tribes. And the tribe that the Lord takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the Lord takes shall come near by households. And the household that the Lord takes shall come near man by man. 15 (I)And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has (J)transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done (K)an outrageous thing in Israel.’”
16 So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken. 17 And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the (L)Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. 18 And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, (M)give glory to the Lord God of Israel and (N)give praise[b] to him. And (O)tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.” 20 And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly (P)I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I did: 21 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels,[c] then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. 23 And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the Lord. 24 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the (Q)Valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, “Why did you (R)bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel (S)stoned him with stones. (T)They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him (U)a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then (V)the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.[d]
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- Joshua 7:12 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
- Joshua 7:19 Or and make confession
- Joshua 7:21 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble
Joshua 1:16-18
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16 And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God (A)be with you, as he was with Moses! 18 Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. (B)Only be strong and courageous.”
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Ezra 7:23-28
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23 Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons. 24 We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose (A)tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.
25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, (B)appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. (C)And those who do not know them, you shall teach. 26 Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
27 (D)Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, (E)who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem, 28 (F)and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the Lord my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.
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