Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them , he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2. And he said, "Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the open square." 3. But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4. Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. 5. And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally ." 6. So Lot went out to them through the doorway, shut the door behind him, 7. and said, "Please, my brethren, do not do so wickedly! 8. "See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof." 9. And they said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one came in to stay here , and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them." So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door. 10. But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door. 11. And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door. 12. Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Son–in–law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city––take them out of this place! 13. "For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the LORD, and the LORD has sent us to destroy it." 14. So Lot went out and spoke to his sons–in–law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city!" But to his sons–in–law he seemed to be joking. 15. When the morning dawned, the angels urged Lot to hurry, saying, "Arise, take your wife and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the punishment of the city." 16. And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city. 17. So it came to pass, when they had brought them outside, that he said, "Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed." 18. Then Lot said to them, "Please, no, my lords! 19. "Indeed now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have increased your mercy which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, lest some evil overtake me and I die. 20. "See now, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one; please let me escape there ( is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live." 21. And he said to him, "See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. 22. "Hurry, escape there. For I cannot do anything until you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. 23. The sun had risen upon the earth when Lot entered Zoar. 24. Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens. 25. So He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26. But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. 27. And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 28. Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace. 29. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt. 30. Then Lot went up out of Zoar and dwelt in the mountains, and his two daughters were with him; for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar. And he and his two daughters dwelt in a cave. 31. Now the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth. 32. "Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father." 33. So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. 34. It happened on the next day that the firstborn said to the younger, "Indeed I lay with my father last night; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve the lineage of our father." 35. Then they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. 36. Thus both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father. 37. The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38. And the younger, she also bore a son and called his name Ben–Ammi; he is the father of the people of Ammon to this day.
1. But it so happened, when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews. 2. And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish–– stones that are burned?" 3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, "Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it , he will break down their stone wall." 4. Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity! 5. Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders. 6. So we built the wall, and the entire wall was joined together up to half its height , for the people had a mind to work. 7. Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored and the gaps were beginning to be closed, that they became very angry, 8. and all of them conspired together to come and attack Jerusalem and create confusion. 9. Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night. 10. Then Judah said, "The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall." 11. And our adversaries said, "They will neither know nor see anything, till we come into their midst and kill them and cause the work to cease." 12. So it was, when the Jews who dwelt near them came, that they told us ten times, "From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us." 13. Therefore I positioned men behind the lower parts of the wall, at the openings; and I set the people according to their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 14. And I looked, and arose and said to the nobles, to the leaders, and to the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, great and awesome, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." 15. And it happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had brought their plot to nothing, that all of us returned to the wall, everyone to his work. 16. So it was, from that time on, that half of my servants worked at construction, while the other half held the spears, the shields, the bows, and wore armor; and the leaders were behind all the house of Judah. 17. Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. 18. Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me. 19. Then I said to the nobles, the rulers, and the rest of the people, "The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. 20. "Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us." 21. So we labored in the work, and half of the men held the spears from daybreak until the stars appeared. 22. At the same time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant stay at night in Jerusalem, that they may be our guard by night and a working party by day." 23. So neither I, my brethren, my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me took off our clothes, except that everyone took them off for washing.
1. And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren. 2. For there were those who said, "We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live." 3. There were also some who said, "We have mortgaged our lands and vineyards and houses, that we might buy grain because of the famine." 4. There were also those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our lands and vineyards. 5. "Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children; and indeed we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been brought into slavery. It is not in our power to redeem them , for other men have our lands and vineyards." 6. And I became very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. 7. After serious thought, I rebuked the nobles and rulers, and said to them, "Each of you is exacting usury from his brother." So I called a great assembly against them. 8. And I said to them, "According to our ability we have redeemed our Jewish brethren who were sold to the nations. Now indeed, will you even sell your brethren? Or should they be sold to us?" Then they were silenced and found nothing to say . 9. Then I said, "What you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?" 10. "I also, with my brethren and my servants, am lending them money and grain. Please, let us stop this usury! 11. "Restore now to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also a hundredth of the money and the grain, the new wine and the oil, that you have charged them." 12. So they said, "We will restore it , and will require nothing from them; we will do as you say." Then I called the priests, and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise. 13. Then I shook out the fold of my garment and said, "So may God shake out each man from his house, and from his property, who does not perform this promise. Even thus may he be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" and praised the LORD. Then the people did according to this promise. 14. Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty–second year of King Artaxerxes, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the governor’s provisions. 15. But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God. 16. Indeed, I also continued the work on this wall, and we did not buy any land. All my servants were gathered there for the work. 17. And at my table were one hundred and fifty Jews and rulers, besides those who came to us from the nations around us. 18. Now that which was prepared daily was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowl were prepared for me, and once every ten days an abundance of all kinds of wine. Yet in spite of this I did not demand the governor’s provisions, because the bondage was heavy on this people. 19. Remember me, my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
1. So He got into a boat, crossed over, and came to His own city. 2. Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." 3. And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, "This Man blasphemes!" 4. But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? 5. "For which is easier, to say, ‘ Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? 6. "But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins" ––then He said to the paralytic, "Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house." 7. And he arose and departed to his house. 8. Now when the multitudes saw it , they marveled and glorified God, who had given such power to men. 9. As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me." So he arose and followed Him. 10. Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. 11. And when the Pharisees saw it , they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 12. When Jesus heard that , He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13. "But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance." 14. Then the disciples of John came to Him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but Your disciples do not fast?" 15. And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast. 16. "No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17. "Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."