Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
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129 Your decrees are wonderful;(A)
therefore I obey them.(B)
130 The revelation of Your words(C) brings light
and gives understanding to the inexperienced.(D)
131 I open my mouth and pant(E)
because I long for Your commands.
132 Turn to me and be gracious to me,(F)
as is Your practice toward those who love Your name.
133 Make my steps steady through Your promise;(G)
don’t let any sin dominate me.(H)
134 Redeem me from human oppression,(I)
and I will keep Your precepts.
135 Show favor to Your servant,(J)
and teach me Your statutes.(K)
136 My eyes pour out streams of tears(L)
because people do not follow Your instruction.
38 Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites(A) went down, had Solomon ride on King David’s mule, and took him to Gihon. 39 Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon.(B) Then they blew the ram’s horn,(C) and all the people proclaimed, “Long live King Solomon!”(D) 40 All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy(E) that the earth split open from the sound.[a]
Adonijah Hears of Solomon’s Coronation
41 Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him(F) heard the noise as they finished eating. Joab heard the sound of the ram’s horn and said, “Why is the town in such an uproar?”(G) 42 He was still speaking when Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest,(H) suddenly arrived. Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are an excellent man, and you must be bringing good news.”(I)
43 “Unfortunately not,” Jonathan answered him. “Our lord King David has made Solomon king. 44 And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have had him ride on the king’s mule. 45 Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon.(J) They have gone from there rejoicing. The town has been in an uproar; that’s the noise you heard. 46 Solomon has even taken his seat on the royal throne.(K)
47 “The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’(L) Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.(M) 48 And the king went on to say this: ‘May the Lord God of Israel be praised! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne,(N) and I am a witness.’”[b]
God’s Real Tabernacle
44 “Our ancestors had the tabernacle of the testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses commanded him to make it according to the pattern he had seen.(A) 45 Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our fathers,(B) until the days of David. 46 He found favor in God’s sight and asked that he might provide a dwelling place for the God[a] of Jacob.(C) 47 But it was Solomon who built Him a house.(D) 48 However, the Most High does not dwell in sanctuaries made with hands, as the prophet says:(E)
49 Heaven is My throne,
and earth My footstool.
What sort of house will you build for Me?
says the Lord,
or what is My resting place?
50 Did not My hand make all these things?(F)[b]
Resisting the Holy Spirit
51 “You stiff-necked(G) people with uncircumcised hearts and ears!(H) You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?(I) They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers(J) you have now become. 53 You received the law under the direction of angels(K) and yet have not kept it.”
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