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Borders of Promise: The Allotment of Canaan & Kings' Rise (July 30) · 1 Year Audio Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to the Daily Audio Torah. Today is July 30th.
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  Now let's continue our journey reading through the entire Bible in one
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  year. This week we are reading from the Israel Bible for the Old
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  Testament and from the King James for the New Testament.
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  Numbers 34:1-29.
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  Hashem spoke to Moses
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  saying, Instruct Bnei Israel and
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  say to them, when you enter the Land of Canaan, this is the land that
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  shall fall to you as your portion: the Land of Canaan with
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  its various boundaries. Your southern sector shall extend from the Wilderness
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  of Zin alongside Edom. Your southern boundary shall
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  start on the east from the tip of the Dead Sea. Your boundary
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  shall then turn to pass south of the Ascent of Akrabbim and
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  continue to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea,
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  reaching Hazar-adar and continuing to Asmon.
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  From Asmon the boundary shall turn from the Wadi of
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  Egypt and terminate at the sea. For the western boundary
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  you shall have the coast of the Great Sea. That shall serve
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  as your western boundary. This shall be your northern boundary: draw
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  a line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor. From Mount
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  Hor draw a line to Lebo Hamath and let the boundary reach
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  Zedad. The boundary shall then run to Ziphron and
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  terminate at Hazar Enan. That shall be your northern
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  boundary. For your eastern boundary, you shall draw a line from Hazar-enan
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  to Shechem. From Shechem, the boundary shall descend
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  to Riblah on the east side of Ayan. From there, the boundary
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  shall continue downward and abut on the eastern
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  slopes of the Sea of Chinnereth. The boundary
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  shall then descend along the Jordan and terminate at the
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  Dead Sea. That shall be your land as defined
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  by its boundaries on all sides.
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  Moses instructed the Israelites, saying, This is the land you are to receive
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  by lot as your hereditary portion,
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  which Hashem has commanded to be given to the 9 and a half tribes.
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  For the Reubenite tribe by its ancestral houses, the Gadite
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  tribe by its ancestral houses, and the half-tribe of Manasseh
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  have already received their portions. Those 2½
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  tribes have received their portions across the Jordan,
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  opposite Jericho on the east, the Orient side.
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  Hashem spoke to Moses saying, These are the names
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  of the men through whom the land shall be apportioned for you: Eleazar
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  the Kohen and Joshua son of Nun.
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  And you shall take also a chieftain from each tribe through whom the
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  land shall be apportioned. These are the names of the men from
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  the tribe of Judah: Caleb son of Jephunneh.
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  From the Simeon tribe: Shmuel son of
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  Ammihud. From the tribe of Benjamin: Elidad
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  son of Chislon. From the Dan tribe: a
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  chieftain, Bukkai son of Jogli.
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  For the descendants of Joseph: from the Manasseh tribe,
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  a chieftain, Thaniel son of Ephod. And from
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  the Ephraim tribe, a chieftain, Kemuel son
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  of Shiptan. From the Zebulun tribe, a chieftain,
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  Elizaphan son of Parnach. From the Issachar
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  tribe, a chieftain, Paltiel son of Azzan.
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  From the Asher tribe, a chieftain, Ahihud son of
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  Shlomi. From the Naphtali tribe, a chieftain,
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  Pedahel son of Ammihud.
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  It was these whom Hashem designated to allot portions
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  to the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
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  2 Chronicles 26:1-28:27.
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  Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,
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  who was 16 years old, and proclaimed him king
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  to succeed his father Amaziah. It was he who rebuilt
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  Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah slept with
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  his fathers. Uzziah was 16 years old when he became
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  king, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem.
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  His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
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  He did what was pleasing to Hashem, just as his father
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  Amaziah had done. He applied himself to the worship of
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  Hashem during the time of Zechariah, instructor in the visions
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  of Hashem. During the time he worshipped Hashem,
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  Hashem made him prosper. He went forth to fight
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  the Philistines and breached the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and
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  the wall of Ashdod. He built towns in the region of
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  Ashdod and among the Philistines. Hashem helped
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  him against the Philistines. Against the Arabs who lived in Ger-baal and
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  the Menuites. The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah,
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  and his fame spread to the approaches of Egypt,
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  where he grew exceedingly strong.
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  Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem on the Corner Gate and the
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  Valley Gate and on the Angle, and fortified them. He built
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  towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns,
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  for he had much cattle and farmers in the foothills and on
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  the plain. And vinedressers in the mountains and on the fertile lands,
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  for he loved the soil. Uzziah had
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  an army of warriors, a battle-ready force who were mustered by
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  Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the adjutant under
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  Hananiah, one of the king's officers. The clan chiefs'
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  valiants totaled 2,600.
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  Under them was the trained army of 307,500 who
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  made war with might and power to aid the king against
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  the enemy. Uzziah provided
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  them, the whole army, with shields and spears and helmets and mail and
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  bows and slingstones. He made clever devices in Jerusalem,
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  set on the towers and the corners, for shooting arrows and large stones.
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  His fame spread far, for he was helped wonderfully, and he became strong.
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  When he was strong, he grew so arrogant he acted corruptly.
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  He trespassed against his God by entering the Temple of
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  Hashem to offer incense on the incense altar.
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  The Kohen Azariah, with 80 other brave Kohanim
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  of Hashem, followed him in, and confronting King Uzziah,
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  said to him, It is not for you, Uzziah, to offer
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  incense to Hashem, but for the Aaron Kohanim who have
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  been consecrated to offer incense. Get out of the sanctuary,
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  for you have trespassed. There will be no glory in it for
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  you from Hashem. Uzziah, holding the censer and
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  ready to burn incense, got angry. But as he got angry
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  with the kohanim, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the front
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  of the kohanim, in the house of Hashem, before the incense altar.
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  When the chief kohen, Azariah, and all the other kohanim looked
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  at him, His forehead was leprous, so they rushed him out of
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  there. He too made haste to get out, for Hashem
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  had struck him with a plague. King Uzziah
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  was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolated
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  quarters as a leper, where he was cut off from the House of Hashem,
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  while Jotham his son was in charge of the king's house and governed the
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  people of the land. The other events of Uzziah's reign,
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  early and late, were recorded by the Navi Yeshayahu
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  son of Amoz. Uzziah slept with his fathers
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  in the burial field of the kings because, they said, he was
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  a leper. His son Jotham succeeded him as
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  king. Jotham was 25
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  years old when he became king, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem.
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  His mother's name was Jerusha daughter of Zadok.
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  He did what was pleasing to Hashem,
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  just as his father Uzziah had done,
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  but he did not enter the Temple of Hashem.
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  However, the people still acted corruptly.
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  It was he who built the upper gate of the House of Hashem.
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  He also built extensively on the Wall of Ophel.
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  He built towns in the hill country of Judah,
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  and in the woods he built fortresses and towers.
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  Moreover, he fought with the king of the Ammonites and overcame them.
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  The Ammonites gave him that year 100 kikkarim of silver and
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  10,000 kor of wheat and another 10,000 of barley.
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  That is what the Ammonites paid him, and likewise in the 2nd
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  and 3rd years. Jotham was strong because he maintained a faithful
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  course before Hashem his God.
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  The other events of Jotham's reign and all his battles and his
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  conduct are recorded in the Book of the Kings
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  of Israel and Judah. He was 25 years old when
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  he became king, and he reigned 16 years in Jerusalem.
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  Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried in the City
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  of David, His son Ahaz succeeded him as king.
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  Ahaz was 20 years old when he became king, and he reigned 16
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  years in Jerusalem. He did not do what
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  was pleasing to Hashem, as his father David had done,
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  but followed the ways of the kings of Israel.
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  He even made molten images for the Baals.
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  He made offerings in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons
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  in fire. In the abhorrent fashion of the nations
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  which Hashem had dispossessed before the Israelites.
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  He sacrificed and made offerings at the shrines,
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  on the hills, and under every leafy tree. Hashem his
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  God delivered him over to the king of Aram,
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  who defeated him and took many of his men captive and
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  brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered
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  over to the king of Israel, who inflicted a great defeat on him.
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  Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000
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  in Judah, all brave men, in one day because
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  they had forsaken God of their fathers.
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  Zicri the champion of Ephraim killed Maaseiah
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  the king's son and Azrikam chief of the palace and
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  Elkanah the second to the king. The Israelites captured
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  200 of their kinsmen, women, boys, and girls.
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  They also took a large amount of booty from them and brought
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  the booty to Samaria. A Navi of Hashem by
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  the name of Oded was there, who went out to meet the army
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  on its return to Shomron. He said to them,
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  Because of the fury of God of your fathers against
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  Yehuda, He delivered them over to you and you killed them in a rage that
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  reached heaven. Do you now intend to subjugate the
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  men and women of Judah and Jerusalem to be your slaves? As it
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  is, you have nothing but offenses against
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  Hashem your God. Now then, listen to me and send back the
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  captives you have taken from your kinsmen, for the wrath of Hashem
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  is upon you. Some of the chief men of the Ephraimites—
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  Azariah son of Jehokanan, Bereiah son of Meshillemoth,
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  Jehikiah son of Shallum, and Amasa— Saddub
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  Hadlay confronted those returning from the campaign and
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  said to them, do not bring these captives here,
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  for it would mean our offending Hashem, adding to our sins
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  and our offenses. For our offense is grave enough,
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  and there is already wrath upon Israel.
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  So the soldiers released the captives and the booty in the
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  presence of the officers and all the congregation. Then the men
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  named above proceeded to take the captives in hand,
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  and with the booty they clothed all the naked among them. They clothed
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  them and shod them and gave them to eat and drink and anointed them and
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  provided donkeys for all who were failing, and brought them
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  to Jericho, the City of Palms, back to their kinsmen.
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  Then they returned to Shamron.
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  At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria
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  for help. Again, the Edomites came and inflicted a
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  defeat on Judah and took captives.
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  And the Philistines made forays against the cities of Shephelah
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  and the Negev of Yehuda. They seized Beth-shemesh and
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  Aijalon and Gedera and Socoh with its
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  villages and Timnah with its villages and
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  Gizmo with its villages, and they settled there.
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  Thus Hashem brought Judah low on account of King Ahaz
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  of Israel, for he threw off restraint in Judah
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  and trespassed against Hashem.
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  Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria,
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  marched against him and gave him trouble instead of supporting
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  him. For Ahaz plundered the house of Hashem and
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  the house of the king and the officers and made a gift to the
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  king of Assyria. To no avail. In his time
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  of trouble, this King Ahaz trespassed even more
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  against Hashem, sacrificing to the gods of
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  Damascus which had defeated him. For he thought,
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  the gods of the kings of Aram helped them. I shall
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  sacrifice to them and they will help me. But they were his ruin and
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  that of all Israel. Ahaz collected the utensils
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  of the House of Hashem and cut the utensils of the House
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  of Hashem to pieces. He shut the doors of the House of Hashem
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  and made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
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  In every town in Judah he set up shrines to make offerings to
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  other gods, vexing God of his fathers.
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  The other events of his reign and all his conduct, early and
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  late, are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
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  Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried in the city,
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  in Jerusalem. His body was not brought to the tombs
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  of the kings of Israel. His son Hezekiah
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  succeeded him as king.
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  Romans 13:1-14.
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  Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
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  For there is no power but of God: the powers that be
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  are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resists the power
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  resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist
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  shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers
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  are not a terror to good works: but to the evil.
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  Will you then not be afraid of the power? Do that
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  which is good, and you shall have praise of the same. For he
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  is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that
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  which is evil, be afraid, for he bears not the sword in vain.
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  For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute
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  wrath upon him that does evil. Therefore you must needs be
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  subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience'
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  sake. For this cause you pay tribute also,
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  for they are God's ministers attending continually upon this
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  very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute
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  to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom,
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  fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no
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  man anything but to love one another, for he that loves
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  another has fulfilled the Law. For this:
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  You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill.
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  You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness.
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  You shall not covet. And if there be any other commandment,
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  it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall
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  love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Love works no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love
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  is the fulfilling of the Law. And that,
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  knowing the time, that now is the high time to awaken out of
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  sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than
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  when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is
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  at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of
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  darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
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  Let us walk honestly, as in the day, not in rioting
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  and drunkenness, Not in chambering and wantonness,
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  not in strife and envying. But put on the
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  Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for
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  the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
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  Psalm 23:1-6.
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  The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes
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  me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still
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  waters. He restores my soul. He leads
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  me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake.
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  Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
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  fear no evil, for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff,
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  they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in
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  the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil;
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  my cup runs over. Surely goodness and
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  mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in
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  the house of the Lord forever.
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  Proverbs 20:11. Even a child
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  is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it
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  be right.
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  Yevrek ka Adonai,
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  vishmareka
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  yeh Adonai.
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  Anav Elikah,
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  Vikunnehkah.
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  Yisah Adonai,
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  Anav Elikah,
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  Vayeseh Lekah.
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  The Aaronic Blessing from Numbers chapter 6,
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  24 to 26.
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  Adonai bless you and keep you.
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  Adonai make his face to shine upon you and
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  be gracious to you. Adonai lift up his countenance
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  upon you and give you peace.