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Faith Under Fire: The Spies, Caleb, and Moses' Farewell (Aug 3) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to the Daily Audio Torah. Today is August 3rd.
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  Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in
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  one year. This week we are reading from the New Living
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  Translation for the Old Testament and for the New Testament.
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  Deuteronomy 1:16-50.
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  At that time I instructed the judges, you must hear the cases
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  of your fellow Israelites and the foreigners living among you.
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  Be perfectly fair in your decisions and impartial
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  in your judgments. Hear the cases of those who are poor
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  as well as those who are rich. Don't be afraid of anyone's
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  anger, for the decision you make is God's decision.
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  Bring Me any cases that are too difficult for you, and I will handle
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  them. At that time I gave you instructions about
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  everything you were to do. Then,
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  just as the Lord our God commanded us, we left Mount Sinai and
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  traveled through the great and terrifying wilderness, as you yourselves
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  remember, and headed toward the hill country of the Amorites.
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  When we arrived at Kadesh-barnea, I said to
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  you, you have now reached the hill country of the Amorites that the Lord
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  our God is giving you. Look, he has placed the land in front
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  of you. Go and occupy it as the Lord, the God of your ancestors,
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  has promised you. Don't be afraid.
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  Don't be discouraged. But you all came to me and said,
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  First, let's send out scouts to explore the land
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  for us. They will advise us on the best route to take and which
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  towns we should enter.
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  This seemed like a good idea to me, so I chose 12 scouts,
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  one from each of your tribes. They headed for the hill country
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  and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. They picked
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  some of its fruit and brought it back to us. And they reported,
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  The land the Lord our God has given us is indeed a good
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  land. But you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God
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  and refused to go in. You complained in your tents and
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  said, The Lord must hate us. That's why he has brought us here from Egypt.
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  To hand us over to the Amorites to be slaughtered.
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  Where can we go? Our brothers have demoralized us with
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  their report. They tell us, the people of the
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  land are taller and more powerful than we are, and their towns
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  are large with walls rising high into the sky.
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  We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak.
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  But I said to you, don't be shocked afraid of them.
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  The Lord your God is going ahead of you. He will fight for you,
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  just as you saw him do in Egypt. And you saw
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  how the Lord your God cared for you all along the way as you traveled
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  through the wilderness, just as a father cares for his child.
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  Now he has brought you to this place. But even after
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  all he did, you refused to trust the Lord your God who goes before
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  you. Looking for the best places to camp, guiding you with
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  a pillar of fire by night and a pillar of cloud by day. When the
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  Lord heard your complaining, He became very angry.
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  So He solemnly swore, not one of you from
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  this wicked generation will live to see the good land I swore to
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  give your ancestors, except Caleb son of
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  Jephunneh. He will see this land because he has followed the Lord completely.
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  I will give to him and his descendants some of the very land he
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  explored during his scouting mission.
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  And the Lord was also angry with me because of you. He said
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  to me, Moses, not even you will enter the Promised Land.
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  Instead, your assistant Joshua son of Nun will
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  lead the people into the land. Encourage him,
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  for he will lead Israel as they take possession of it.
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  I will give the land to your little ones, your innocent children.
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  You were afraid they would be captured, but they will be the ones who occupy
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  it. As for you, turn around now and go on
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  back through the wilderness toward the Red Sea.
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  Then you confessed, We have sinned against
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  the Lord. We will go into the land and fight for it,
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  as the Lord our God has commanded us. So your
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  men strapped on their weapons, thinking it would be easy to attack the hill country.
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  But the Lord told me to tell you, do not attack,
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  for I am not with you. If you go ahead on
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  your own, you will be crushed by your enemies.
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  This is what I told you, but you would not listen.
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  Instead, you again rebelled against the Lord's command
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  and arrogantly went into the hill country to fight. But the Amorites
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  who lived there came out against you like a swarm of bees. They chased
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  and battered you all the way from the Seir to
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  Hormah. Then you returned and wept before the Lord,
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  but He refused to listen. So you stayed
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  there at Kadesh for a long time. 2 Chronicles 33:14-34,
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  33. It was after this
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  that Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, from west
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  of the Gihon Spring in the Kidron Valley to the Fish Gate,
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  and continuing around the hill of Ophel, where it was built very
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  high. And he stationed his military officers in
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  all of the fortified cities of Judah.
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  Manasseh also removed the foreign gods from the hills and the
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  idol from the Lord's Temple. He tore down all
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  the altars he had built on the hill where the Temple stood,
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  and all the altars that were in Jerusalem. And he dumped them outside
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  the city. Then he restored the altar of
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  the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings
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  on it. He also encouraged the people of Judah
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  to worship the Lord, the God of Israel. However,
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  the people still sacrificed at the pagan shrines, but only
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  to the Lord their God. The rest of the events of Manasseh's reign,
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  his prayer to God, and the words the seers spoke to him in the name
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  of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded in
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  the Book of the Kings of Israel. Manasseh's prayer,
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  the account of the way God answered him, and an account of all his
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  sins and unfaithfulness are recorded in the Record of the Seers.
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  It includes a list of the locations where he built pagan shrines
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  and set up Asherah poles and idols before he repented.
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  When Manasseh died, he was buried at his palace.
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  Then his son Amon became the next king.
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  Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem
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  2 years. He did what was evil in the Lord's
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  sight, just as his father Manasseh had done. He worshiped
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  and sacrificed to all the idols his father had made. But unlike
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  his father, he did not humble himself before the Lord.
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  Instead, Ammon sinned even more.
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  At last, Ammon's own officials plotted against him
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  and assassinated him in his palace. But the people of the
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  land killed all those who had conspired against King Ammon,
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  and they made his son Josiah the next king.
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  Josiah was 8 years old when he became king, and he reigned in
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  Jerusalem 31 years. He did
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  what was pleasing in the Lord's sight and followed
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  the example of his ancestor David. He did not turn aside from
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  doing what was right.
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  During the 8th year of his reign, while he was still young,
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  Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David. Then in
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  the 12th year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem,
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  destroying all the pagan shrines, the Asherah poles,
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  and the carved idols and cast images. He saw to it that
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  the altars for the images of Baal and their incense altars were
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  torn down. He also made sure that the Asherah poles,
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  the carved idols, and the cast images were smashed and
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  scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed
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  to them. Then he burned the bones of the pagan
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  priests on their own altars, and so he
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  purified Judah and Jerusalem. He did the same thing
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  in the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon,
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  even as far as Naphtali.
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  He destroyed the pagan altars and the Asherah poles, and he crushed the idols
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  into dust He cut down the incense altars throughout the land
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  of Israel and then returned to Jerusalem.
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  In the 18th year of his reign, after he had purified the
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  land and the Temple, Josiah appointed Shaphan son of
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  Azaliah Mesheha the governor of Jerusalem and
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  Joah son of Jehoahaz the royal historian to
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  repair the Temple of the Lord his God. They gave Hilkiah the
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  high priest the money that had been collected by the Levites,
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  who served as gatekeepers at the Temple of God.
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  The gifts were brought by people from Manasseh,
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  Ephraim, and from all the remnant of Israel, as well as from all
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  Judah, Benjamin, and the people of Jerusalem.
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  He entrusted the money to the men assigned to supervise the
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  restoration of the Lord's Temple. Then they paid
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  the workers who did the repairs and renovation. Thus they hired
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  carpenters and masons and purchased cut stone for the walls
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  and timber for the rafters and beams.
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  They restored what earlier kings of Judah had allowed to fall
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  into ruin. The workers served faithfully under
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  the leadership of Jahath and Obadiah, Levites of the
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  Merarite clan, and Zechariah and Meshullam,
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  Levites of the Kohathite clan. Other Levites,
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  all of whom were skilled musicians, were put in charge of
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  the laborers of the various trades. Still others assisted
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  as secretaries, officials, and gatekeepers.
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  As Hilkiah the high priest was recording the money collected
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  at the Lord's Temple, he found the Book of the Law
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  of the Lord as it had been given through Moses.
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  Hilkiah said to Shaphan the court secretary, I have found
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  the Book of the Law in the Lord's Temple.
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  Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
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  Shaphan took the scroll to the king and reported, Your officials
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  are doing everything they were assigned to do. The money
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  that was collected at the Temple of the Lord has been given to the supervisors
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  and workmen. Shaphan also said to the king,
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  Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll. So Shaphan
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  read it to the king. When the king heard what
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  was written in the Law, he tore his clothes in despair.
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  Then he gave these orders to Hilkiah, Ahikam son
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  of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the court secretary,
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  and Asaiah the king's personal adviser: Go to the
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  Temple and speak to the Lord for me and for all the remnant of Israel
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  and Judah. Ask him about the words written in this
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  scroll that has been found. The Lord's anger has been poured
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  out against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the
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  Word of the Lord. We have not been doing what this scroll
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  says we must do. So Hilkiah and the
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  other men went to the newer Mishnah section of Jerusalem to
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  consult with the prophet Huldah. She was the wife of Shallum
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  son of Tikvah and grandson of Harhas, the keeper of the
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  Temple wardrobe. She said to them, The Lord, the God of
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  Israel, has spoken! Go and tell the man who sent you,
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  This is what the Lord says: I will certainly
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  destroy this city and its people.
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  All the curses written in the scroll you have read will come true.
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  For the people of Judah have abandoned Me and worshiped
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  pagan gods, and I am very angry with them for everything
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  they have done. My anger will be poured out against this
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  place, and nothing will be able to stop it.
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  But go to the king of Judah who sent you to seek
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  the Lord and tell him, This is what the
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  Lord, the God of Israel, says concerning the message
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  you have just heard: You were sorry and humbled yourself before God
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  when you heard what I said against this city and its people.
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  You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept
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  before me in repentance. So I have indeed heard
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  you, says the Lord. I will not send the promised disaster against this
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  city and its people until after you have died and been buried
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  in peace. You will not see the disaster I am going to bring
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  on this place. So they took her message back
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  to the king. Then the king summoned all the leaders
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  of Judah and Jerusalem. And the king went up to
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  the Temple of the Lord with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem,
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  and the priests and the Levites, all the people from the greatest
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  to the least. There the king read to them the
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  entire Book of the Covenant that had been found in the Lord's
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  Temple. The king took his place of authority beside the pillar and
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  renewed the covenant in the Lord's presence. He pledged to
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  obey the Lord by keeping all His commands,
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  regulations, and laws with all his heart and soul.
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  He promised to obey all the terms of the covenant that were
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  written in the scroll. And he required everyone in
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  Jerusalem and the people of Benjamin to make a similar
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  pledge. As the people of Jerusalem did this,
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  they renewed their covenant with God, the God of their ancestors.
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  So Josiah removed all detestable idols
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  from the entire land of Israel and required everyone to
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  worship the Lord their God. And throughout the rest of his lifetime,
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  they did not turn away from the Lord, the God of
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  their ancestors.
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  Romans 16:10-27.
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  Give my greetings to Apellus, a good man whom Christ approves,
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  and give my best regards to the members of the household of Aristobulus.
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  Greet Herodian, my relative. Greet the Christians in the
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  household of Narcissus. Say hello to Tryphema and
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  Tryphosa, the Lord's workers, and to dear Persis,
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  who has worked so hard for the Lord. Greet Rufus,
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  whom the Lord picked out to be his very own. And also his
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  dear mother, who has been a mother to me.
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  And please give my greetings to Asyncritus,
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  Legon, Hermes, Patrobas,
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  Hermes, and the brothers and sisters who are with them.
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  Give my greetings to Philologus, Julia,
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  Nereus, and his sister, and to Olympus and
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  all the other believers who are with them. Greet each other in
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  Christian love. All the churches in Christ send you their
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  greetings. And now I make one more appeal,
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  my dear brothers and sisters: Watch out for people who
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  cause divisions and upset people's faith by
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  teaching things that are contrary to what you have been taught.
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  Stay away from them. Such people are not serving Christ
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  our Lord; they are serving their own personal interests.
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  By smooth talk and glowing words, They deceive
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  innocent people. But everyone knows that you are obedient
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  to the Lord. This makes me very happy.
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  I want you to see clearly what is right and to stay innocent
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  of any wrong. The God of peace will soon crush Satan
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  under your feet. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
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  be with you. Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius,
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  Jason, and Sosipater, my relative, sends you their
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  good wishes. I, Tertius, the one who is writing
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  this letter for Paul, send my greetings too,
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  as a Christian brother. Gaius says hello
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  to you. I am his guest, and the church meets here in his home.
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  Erastus, the city treasurer, sends you his greetings,
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  and so does Quartus, a Christian brother. God is able to
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  make you strong, Just as the Good News says,
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  it is the message about Jesus Christ and his plan for
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  you Gentiles, a plan kept secret from the beginning of
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  time. But now, as the prophets foretold
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  and as the eternal God has commanded, this message
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  is made known to all Gentiles everywhere
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  so that they may— might believe and obey Christ.
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  To God, who alone is wise, be the
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  glory forever through Jesus Christ.
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  Amen.
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  Psalm 26:1-12.
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  Declare me innocent, O Lord, for I have acted with integrity;
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  I have trusted in the Lord without wavering. Put me
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  on trial, Lord, and cross-examine me; Test my motives
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  and affections. For I am constantly aware of Your
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  unfailing love, and I have lived according to Your
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  truth. I do not spend time with liars
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  or go along with hypocrites. I hate the gatherings of
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  those who do evil, and I refuse to join in with the wicked.
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  I wash my hands to declare my innocence.
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  I come to Your altar, O Lord, singing a song of thanksgiving
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  and telling of all Your miracles.
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  I love Your sanctuary, Lord, the place where Your glory shines.
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  Don't let me suffer the fate of sinners. Don't condemn
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  me along with murderers. Their hands are
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  dirty with wicked schemes, and they constantly take bribes.
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  But I am not like that. I do what is right. So in
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  Your mercy, save me. I have taken
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  a stand. And I will publicly praise the Lord.
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  Proverbs 20:19. A gossip
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  tells secrets, so don't hang around with someone who talks too much.
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  Please enjoy this beautiful music, You Belong
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  to the Lord, done by the Project of Love.
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  You belong
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  to the Lord. You belong
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  to the Lord.
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  He found you in a desert land, an empty,
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  howling wasteland. He threw
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  his arms around you, watched over you.
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  You belong to the Lord.
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  You belong to the Lord.
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  He was like an eagle hovering over its
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  nest, overshadowing its young,
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  then spreading its wings,
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  lifting you into the air,
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  teaching you to fly,
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  teaching you to fly.
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  God won't let you.
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  God won't let
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  you. Oh, God won't
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  let you. God won't
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  let you. I found you in a desert land,
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  an empty, howling wasteland. I threw my arms around
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  you and watched over you.
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  You belong
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  to me. You belong
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  to me. I was like an
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  eagle hovering over its
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  nest, overshadowing its young,
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  then spreading its wings, lifting you into
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  the air, teaching you to fly, teaching to
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  fly high. And I alone
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  let you, I alone
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  let you, oh,
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  I alone let you,
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  I alone let
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  you, oh, oh.
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  Do you see it now?
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  Do you see that I'm the one? Do you see it
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  now? Do you see that I'm the one?
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  I'm always around.
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  I'm always around.
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  I have my arms around you and I watch
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  over you. I have my arms around
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  you.
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  I have my arms around you and
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  I watch over you. I'm always around.
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  I'm always around.