Joshua 22:21-23:16 21 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders
of the Israelite clans:
22 “El, God, the
Lord!
El, God, the
Lord! He knows the truth!
Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the
Lord,
don’t spare us
today!
23 If we have built
an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the
Lord by making
burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering
tokens of peace
on it, the
Lord himself will punish us.
24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that
in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the
Lord God of Israel?
25 The
Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the
Lord.’
In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying
the
Lord.
26 So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,
27 but as a reminder to us and you,
and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the
Lord in his very presence
with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace.
Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the
Lord.’
28 We said, ‘If in the future they say such a thing
to us or to our descendants, we will reply, “See the model of the
Lord’s altar that our ancestors
made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’
29 Far be it from us to rebel against the
Lord by turning back today from following after the
Lord by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace
aside from the altar of the
Lord our God located in front of his dwelling place!”
30 When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders and clan leaders who accompanied him heard the defense of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,
they were satisfied.
31 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites,
“Today we know that the
Lord is among us, because you have not disobeyed the
Lord in this.
Now
you have rescued the Israelites from the
Lord’s judgment.”
32 Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, and the leaders left the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead and reported back to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God.
They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
34 The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, “Surely it is a Reminder to us
that the
Lord is God.”
1 A long time
passed after the
Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies,
and Joshua was very old.
2 So Joshua summoned all Israel, including the elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and told them: “I am very old.
3 You saw everything the
Lord your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the
Lord your God fights for you.
4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations,
from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea
in the west, including all the nations I defeated.
5 The
Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them,
so you can occupy
their land as the
Lord your God promised
you.
6 Be very strong! Carefully obey
all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,
7 or associate with these nations that remain near
you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods!
You must not worship
or bow down to them!
8 But you must be loyal to
the
Lord your God, as you have been
to this very day.
9 “The
Lord drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you
to this very day.
10 One of you makes a thousand run away,
for the
Lord your God fights for you
as he promised you he would.
11 Watch yourselves carefully! Love the
Lord your God!
12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with
these nations that remain near you,
and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them,
13 know for certain that the
Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you;
they will be a whip that tears
your sides and thorns that blind
your eyes until you disappear
from this good land the
Lord your God gave you.
14 “Look, today I am about to die.
You know with all your heart and being
that not even one of all the faithful promises the
Lord your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized – not one promise is unfulfilled!
15 But in the same way every faithful promise the
Lord your God made to you has been realized,
it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the
Lord will bring on you every judgment
until he destroys you from this good land which the
Lord your God gave you.
16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the
Lord your God which he commanded you to keep,
and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods,
the
Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear
quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”
Context (NET) Luke 20:27-47 27 Now some Sadducees
(who contend that there is no resurrection)
came to him.
28 They asked him,
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us that
if a man’s brother dies leaving a wife but
no children, that man must marry the widow and father children for his brother.
29 Now there were seven brothers. The first one married a woman
and died without children.
30 The second
31 and then the third married her, and in this same way all seven died, leaving no children.
32 Finally the woman died too.
33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be?
For all seven had married her.”
34 So
Jesus said to them, “The people of this age
marry and are given in marriage.
35 But those who are regarded as worthy to share in
that age and in the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.
36 In fact, they can no longer die, because they are equal to angels
and are sons of God, since they are
sons
of the resurrection.
37 But even Moses revealed that the dead are raised
in the passage about the bush,
where he calls the Lord
the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.
38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for all live before him.”
39 Then
some of the experts in the law
answered, “Teacher, you have spoken well!”
40 For they did not dare any longer to ask
him anything.
41 But
he said to them, “How is it that they say that the Christ
is David’s son?
42 For David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘
The Lord said to my lord, “
Sit at my right hand, 43 until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
44 If David then calls him ‘Lord,’ how can he be his son?”
45 As
all the people were listening, Jesus
said to his disciples,
46 “Beware
of the experts in the law.
They
like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings
in the marketplaces and the best seats
in the synagogues
and the places of honor at banquets.
47 They
devour
widows’ property,
and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”
Context (NET) Psalm 89:14-37 14 Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne.
Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule.
15 How blessed are the people who worship you!
O
Lord, they experience your favor.
16 They rejoice in your name all day long, and are vindicated
by your justice.
17 For you give them splendor and strength.
By your favor we are victorious.
18 For our shield
belongs to the
Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then you
spoke through a vision to your faithful followers
and said: “I have energized a warrior;
I have raised up a young man
from the people.
20 I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.
21 My hand will support him,
and my arm will strengthen him.
22 No enemy will be able to exact tribute
from him;
a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.
23 I will crush his enemies before him; I will strike down those who hate him.
24 He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love,
and by my name he will win victories.
25 I will place his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.
26 He will call out to me, ‘You are my father,
my God, and the protector who delivers me.’
27 I will appoint him to be my firstborn son,
the most exalted of the earth’s kings.
28 I will always extend my loyal love to him, and my covenant with him is secure.
29 I will give him an eternal dynasty,
and make his throne as enduring as the skies above.
30 If his sons reject my law and disobey my regulations,
31 if they break
my rules and do not keep my commandments,
32 I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club,
their sin by inflicting them with bruises.
33 But I will not remove
my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.
34 I will not break
my covenant or go back on what I promised.
35 Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive
David.
36 His dynasty will last forever.
His throne will endure before me, like the sun,
37 it will remain stable, like the moon,
his throne will endure like the skies.”
(Selah)
Context (NET) Proverbs 13:17-19 17 An unreliable
messenger falls
into trouble,
but a faithful envoy
brings
healing.
18 The one who neglects
discipline ends up in
poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.
19 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools abhor
turning away from evil.
Context (NET)
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