Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
50 The God of gods, The LORD, has spoken and called the Earth, from the rising up of the Sun to the going down thereof.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, has God shined.
3 Our God shall come and shall not keep silent. A fire shall devour before Him, and a mighty storm shall be moved around Him.
4 He shall call the heaven above and the Earth, to judge His people.
5 “Gather My saints together to Me, those who make a covenant with Me with sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge Himself. Selah.
14 At that time, Abijah, the son of Jeroboam, fell sick.
2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, “Up, please, and disguise yourself, so that they do not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam. And go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the Prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people.
3 “And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a bottle of honey, and go to him. He shall tell you what shall become of the young man.”
4 And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see, for his sight was decayed because of his age.
5 Then the LORD said to Ahijah: “Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to ask something of you for her son, for he is sick. (Thus and thus) shall you say to her when she comes in. She shall pretend to be another.”
6 Therefore, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? I am sent to you with heavy tidings.
7 “Go tell Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the LORD God of Israel: “Because I have exalted you among the people, and have made you prince over My people Israel,
8 “and have torn the kingdom away from the House of David and have given it to you. And you have not been as My servant David, who kept My Commandments and followed Me with all his heart and did only that which was right in My Eyes,
9 “but have done evil above all who were before you (for you have gone and made yourself other gods and molten images, to provoke Me, and have cast Me behind your back),
10 “therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the House of Jeroboam, and will cut off every male from Jeroboam, as well him who is shut up, as him who is left in Israel, and will sweep away the remnant of the House of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.
11 “The dogs shall eat him of Jeroboam who dies in the city, and the birds of the air shall eat him who dies in the field. For the LORD has said it.”’
12 “Up, therefore, and get to your house! For when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
13 “And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him. For only he of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the House of Jeroboam.
14 “Moreover, the LORD shall stir himself up a king over Israel, who shall destroy the House of Jeroboam on that day. What? Yea, even now!
15 “For the LORD shall strike Israel, as when a reed is shaken in the water. And He shall weed Israel out of this good land which He gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made themselves groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
16 “And He shall give Israel up, because of the sins of Jeroboam, who sinned and made Israel sin.”
17 And Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. And when she came to the threshold of the house, the young man died.
18 And they buried him. And all Israel lamented him, according to the Word of the LORD which He spoke by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Prophet.
12 Therefore, I thank Him Who has made me strong - Christ Jesus our Lord. For He counted me faithful and put me in His service
13 when I had previously been a blasphemer and a persecutor and an oppressor. But I was received to mercy. For I did it ignorantly, through unbelief.
14 But the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
15 This is a true saying and by all means worthy to be received: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of whom I am chief.
16 But, I was received to mercy for this reason: so that Jesus Christ should first show all long suffering on me, as an example to those who shall (in time) come to believe in Him unto eternal life.
17 Now, to the King everlasting, immortal, invisible; to God (Who alone is wise) be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
18 This commandment I commit to you, son Timothy, according to previous prophecies concerning you, so that by them you should fight a good fight,
19 having faith and a good conscience (which some have put away and, as far as faith, have made shipwreck -
20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander - whom I have delivered to Satan so that they might learn not to blaspheme).
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