18 (A)You show steadfast love to thousands, (B)but you repay the guilt of fathers (C)to their children after them, O great and (D)mighty God, whose name is the (E)Lord of hosts,

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16 Not like these is he who is (A)the portion of Jacob,
    for he is the one who formed all things,
(B)and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance;
    (C)the Lord of hosts is his name.

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You shall not bow down to them or serve them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 10 but showing steadfast love to (A)thousands[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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  1. Deuteronomy 5:10 Or to the thousandth generation

(A)keeping steadfast love for thousands,[a] (B)forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but (C)who will by no means clear the guilty, (D)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

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  1. Exodus 34:7 Or to the thousandth generation

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, (A)the faithful God (B)who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and (C)repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. (D)He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

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(A)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am (B)a jealous God, (C)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands[a] of those who love me and keep my commandments.

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  1. Exodus 20:6 Or to the thousandth generation

25 And all the people answered, (A)“His blood be on us and (B)on our children!”

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32 (A)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, (B)you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to (C)hell? 34 (D)Therefore (E)I send you (F)prophets and wise men and (G)scribes, (H)some of whom you will kill and crucify, and (I)some you will (J)flog in your synagogues and (K)persecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all (L)the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous (M)Abel to the blood of (N)Zechariah the son of Barachiah,[a] whom you murdered between (O)the sanctuary and (P)the altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, (Q)all these things will come upon this generation.

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  1. Matthew 23:35 Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah

15 For thus says (A)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is (B)Holy:
(C)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also (D)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(E)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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21 A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, (A)to the mighty God.

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(A)For to us a child is born,
    to us (B)a son is given;
(C)and the government shall be (D)upon[a] his shoulder,
    and his name shall be called[b]
Wonderful (E)Counselor, (F)Mighty God,
    (G)Everlasting (H)Father, Prince of (I)Peace.

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  1. Isaiah 9:6 Or is upon
  2. Isaiah 9:6 Or is called

16 And the word of the Lord came to (A)Jehu the son of (B)Hanani against Baasha, saying, “Since I (C)exalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and (D)you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, behold, I will utterly (E)sweep away (F)Baasha and his house, and I will make your house (G)like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and (A)made for yourself other gods and (B)metal images, provoking me to anger, and (C)have cast me behind your back, 10 therefore behold, I will bring harm upon the house of Jeroboam and (D)will cut off from Jeroboam every male, (E)both bond and free in Israel, and (F)will burn up the house of Jeroboam, as a man burns up dung until it is all gone.

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18 (A)‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, (B)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

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Habakkuk's Second Complaint

12 Are you not (A)from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    (B)We shall not die.
O Lord, (C)you have ordained them as a judgment,
    and you, O (D)Rock, have established them for reproof.

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(A)Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
    and his (B)greatness is unsearchable.

(C)One generation shall commend your works to another,
    and shall declare your mighty acts.
On (D)the glorious splendor of your majesty,
    and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.
They shall speak of (E)the might of your awesome deeds,
    and I will declare your greatness.

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And I said, “O Lord God of heaven, (A)the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,

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26 ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the Lord—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

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21 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and (A)will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22 And I will make your house like (B)the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like (C)the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you (D)have made Israel to sin. 23 And of Jezebel the Lord also said, (E)‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within (F)the walls of Jezreel.’ 24 (G)Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

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David Avenges the Gibeonites

21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David (A)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.” So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the people of Israel but (B)of the remnant of the Amorites. Although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah. And David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And how shall I make atonement, that you may bless (C)the heritage of the Lord?” The Gibeonites said to him, “It is not a matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “What do you say that I shall do for you?” They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and planned to destroy us, so that we should have no place in all the territory of Israel, let seven of his sons be given to us, so that we may hang them before the Lord at (D)Gibeah of Saul, (E)the chosen of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son Jonathan, because of (F)the oath of the Lord that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. The king took the two sons of (G)Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Merab[a] the daughter of Saul, whom (H)she bore to (I)Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite; and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before the Lord, and the seven of them perished together. They were put to death in the first days of harvest, (J)at the beginning of barley harvest.

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  1. 2 Samuel 21:8 Two Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Michal

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 (A)Valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, “Why did you (B)bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel (C)stoned him with stones. (D)They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him (E)a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then (F)the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.[a]

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  1. Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble

35 Thus says the Lord,
who (A)gives the sun for light by day
    and (B)the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,
who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—
    (C)the Lord of hosts is his name:

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God Himself Is Judge

A Psalm of (A)Asaph.

50 (B)The Mighty One, God the Lord,
    speaks and summons the earth
    (C)from the rising of the sun to its setting.

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21 You shall not be in dread of them, for the Lord your God is (A)in your midst, (B)a great and awesome God.

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