God has spoken (A)in his holiness:[a]
    “With exultation (B)I will divide up (C)Shechem
    and portion out the Vale of (D)Succoth.

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  1. Psalm 60:6 Or sanctuary

Abram (A)passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to (B)the oak[a] of (C)Moreh. At that time (D)the Canaanites were in the land.

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  1. Genesis 12:6 Or terebinth

35 Once for all I have sworn (A)by my holiness;
    I will not (B)lie to David.

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27 and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, (A)Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of (B)Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

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(A)The Lord God has sworn by his holiness
    that, behold, the days are coming upon you,
(B)when they shall take you away with hooks,
    (C)even the last of you with fishhooks.

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In God, whose word I praise,
    in God I trust; (A)I shall not be afraid.
    What can flesh do to me?

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(A)Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.

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45 And (A)blessed is she who believed that there would be[a] a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

Mary's Song of Praise: The Magnificat

46 And Mary said,

(B)“My (C)soul (D)magnifies the Lord,
47     (E)and my (F)spirit rejoices in (G)God my Savior,

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  1. Luke 1:45 Or believed, for there will be

Lying Prophets

Concerning the prophets:

(A)My heart is broken within me;
    (B)all my bones shake;
I am like a drunken man,
    like a man overcome by wine,
because of the Lord
    and because of his holy words.

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11 (A)The Lord swore to David a sure oath
    (B)from which he will not turn back:
(C)“One of the sons of your body[a]
    I will set on your throne.

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  1. Psalm 132:11 Hebrew of your fruit of the womb

God has promised in his holiness:[a]
    “With exultation I will divide up Shechem
    and portion out the Valley of Succoth.
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
    Ephraim is my helmet,
    Judah my scepter.
Moab is my washbasin;
    upon Edom I cast my shoe;
    (A)over Philistia I shout in triumph.”

10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?
    Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rejected us, O God?
    You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
12 Oh grant us help against the foe,
    for vain is the salvation of man!
13 With God we shall do valiantly;
    it is he who will tread down our foes.

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  1. Psalm 108:7 Or sanctuary

19 (A)Of old you spoke in a vision to your godly one,[a] and said:
    “I have (B)granted help to one who is (C)mighty;
    I have exalted one (D)chosen from the people.

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  1. Psalm 89:19 Some Hebrew manuscripts godly ones

David's Prayer of Gratitude

18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, (A)“Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. (B)You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God! 20 And what more can David say to you? (C)For you know your servant, O Lord God!

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David Anointed King of Israel

Then all the tribes of Israel (A)came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, (B)we are your bone and flesh. In times past, when Saul was king over us, (C)it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the Lord said to you, (D)‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince[a] over Israel.’” So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, (E)and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron (F)before the Lord, and they anointed David king over Israel.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:2 Or leader

18 Now then bring it about, (A)for the Lord has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’”

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Ish-bosheth Made King of Israel

But (A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (B)Mahanaim, and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.

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32 (A)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land (B)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

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  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

The Covenant Renewal at Shechem

24 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel (A)to Shechem and (B)summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And (C)they presented themselves before God.

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So they set apart (A)Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and (B)Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and (C)Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) (D)in the hill country of Judah.

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The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to (A)Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

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17 But Jacob journeyed to (A)Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.[a]

18 And Jacob came safely[b] to the city of (B)Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 33:17 Succoth means booths
  2. Genesis 33:18 Or peacefully

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