23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: (A)‘To the unknown god.’ (B)What therefore you worship (C)as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

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    and (A)many peoples shall come, and say:
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the house of the God of Jacob,
that he may teach us his ways
    and that we may walk in his paths.”
For (B)out of Zion shall go forth the law,[a]
    and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 2:3 Or teaching

They are (A)Israelites, and to them belong (B)the adoption, (C)the glory, (D)the covenants, (E)the giving of the law, (F)the worship, and (G)the promises. To them belong (H)the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, (I)who is God over all, (J)blessed forever. Amen.

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47 and that (A)repentance for[a] the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed (B)in his name (C)to all nations, (D)beginning from Jerusalem.

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  1. Luke 24:47 Some manuscripts and

19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his (A)statutes and rules[a] to Israel.

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  1. Psalm 147:19 Or and just decrees

God's Righteousness Upheld

Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? Much in every way. To begin with, (A)the Jews were entrusted with (B)the oracles of God.

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30 (A)The times of ignorance (B)God overlooked, but (C)now he (D)commands all people everywhere to repent,

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16 (A)On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem:
“Fear not, O Zion;
    (B)let not your hands grow weak.
17 (C)The Lord your God is in your midst,
    (D)a mighty one who will save;
(E)he will rejoice over you with gladness;
    he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.

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20 Our God is a God of salvation,
    (A)and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.

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14 For it is evident that our Lord was descended (A)from Judah, and in connection with that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.

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The Coming King of Zion

(A)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
(B)Behold, (C)your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
(D)humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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13 (A)I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off,
    and my salvation will not delay;
(B)I will put salvation in Zion,
    for Israel my glory.”

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“Behold, God is my salvation;
    I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (A)the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
    and he has become my salvation.”

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  1. Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord

they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever (A)since the days of (B)Esarhaddon king of Assyria (C)who brought us here.”

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10 The (A)scepter shall not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler's staff (B)from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him;[a]
    and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

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  1. Genesis 49:10 By a slight revocalization; a slight emendation yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Targum) until he comes to whom it belongs; Hebrew until Shiloh comes, or until he comes to Shiloh

10 But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the Lord who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service. 11 They offer to the Lord (A)every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out (B)the showbread on the table of pure gold, (C)and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may (D)burn every evening. For we (E)keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken him. 12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests (F)with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, (G)do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”

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27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, “Send there one of the priests whom you carried away from there, and let him[a] go and dwell there and teach them the law of the god of the land.” 28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in (A)Bethel and taught them how they should fear the Lord.

29 But every nation still made gods of its own and put them (B)in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities in which they lived. 30 The men of (C)Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites (D)burned their children in the fire to (E)Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of (F)Sepharvaim. 32 (G)They also feared the Lord (H)and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of (I)the high places. 33 So they feared the Lord but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

34 To this day they do according to the former manner. They do not fear the Lord, and they do not follow the statutes or the rules or the law or the commandment that the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, (J)whom he named Israel. 35 The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, (K)“You shall not fear other gods (L)or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them, 36 but (M)you shall fear the Lord, (N)who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and (O)with an outstretched arm. You shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice. 37 And the statutes and the rules and the law and the commandment that he wrote for you, (P)you shall always be careful to do. (Q)You shall not fear other gods, 38 and (R)you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. (S)You shall not fear other gods, 39 but (T)you shall fear the Lord your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.” 40 However, they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

41 (U)So these nations feared the Lord and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children's children—as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 17:27 Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew them

Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
    for great (A)in your[a] midst is (B)the Holy One of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:6 The Hebrew for your in verse 6 is singular, referring to the inhabitant of Zion

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