Alpet 2022
King James Version
2. Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel, and the man was very rich. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. And he was shearing his sheep in Carmel. 3. The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. And she was a woman of good understanding and beautiful appearance; but the man was harsh and evil in his doings. And he was of the house of Caleb. 4. When David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep, 5. David sent ten young men; and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel, go to Nabal, and greet him in my name. 6. "And thus you shall say to him who lives in prosperity : ‘Peace be to you, peace to your house, and peace to all that you have! 7. ‘Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds were with us, and we did not hurt them, nor was there anything missing from them all the while they were in Carmel. 8. ‘Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever comes to your hand to your servants and to your son David.’" 9. So when David’s young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all these words in the name of David, and waited. 10. Then Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, "Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants nowadays who break away each one from his master. 11. "Shall I then take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men when I do not know where they are from?" 12. So David’s young men turned on their heels and went back; and they came and told him all these words. 13. Then David said to his men, "Every man gird on his sword." So every man girded on his sword, and David also girded on his sword. And about four hundred men went with David, and two hundred stayed with the supplies. 14. Now one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, "Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master; and he reviled them. 15. "But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, nor did we miss anything as long as we accompanied them, when we were in the fields. 16. "They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the time we were with them keeping the sheep. 17. "Now therefore, know and consider what you will do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his household. For he is such a scoundrel that one cannot speak to him." 18. Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five sheep already dressed, five seahs of roasted grain , one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys. 19. And she said to her servants, "Go on before me; see, I am coming after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal. 20. So it was, as she rode on the donkey, that she went down under cover of the hill; and there were David and his men, coming down toward her, and she met them. 21. Now David had said, "Surely in vain I have protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belongs to him. And he has repaid me evil for good. 22. "May God do so, and more also, to the enemies of David, if I leave one male of all who belong to him by morning light." 23. Now when Abigail saw David, she hastened to dismount from the donkey, fell on her face before David, and bowed down to the ground. 24. So she fell at his feet and said: "On me, my lord, on me let this iniquity be ! And please let your maidservant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your maidservant. 25. "Please, let not my lord regard this scoundrel Nabal. For as his name is , so is he: Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I, your maidservant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. 26. "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, since the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be as Nabal. 27. "And now this present which your maidservant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord. 28. "Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For the LORD will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil is not found in you throughout your days. 29. "Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life, but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling. 30. "And it shall come to pass, when the LORD has done for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you ruler over Israel, 31. "that this will be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. But when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your maidservant." 32. Then David said to Abigail: "Blessed is the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! 33. "And blessed is your advice and blessed are you, because you have kept me this day from coming to bloodshed and from avenging myself with my own hand. 34. "For indeed, as the LORD God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely by morning light no males would have been left to Nabal!" 35. So David received from her hand what she had brought him, and said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. See, I have heeded your voice and respected your person." 36. Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37. So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38. Then it came about, after about ten days, that the LORD struck Nabal, and he died. 39. So when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, "Blessed be the LORD, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil! For the LORD has returned the wickedness of Nabal on his own head." And David sent and proposed to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 40. When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, "David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife." 41. Then she arose, bowed her face to the earth, and said, "Here is your maidservant, a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord." 42. So Abigail rose in haste and rode on a donkey, attended by five of her maidens; and she followed the messengers of David, and became his wife. 43. David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and so both of them were his wives. 44. But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.
1. The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon. 2. One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so bad. 3. Then the LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs, the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad." 4. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5. "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are carried away captive from Judah, whom I have sent out of this place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans. 6. ‘For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will build them and not pull them down, and I will plant them and not pluck them up. 7. ‘Then I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God, for they shall return to Me with their whole heart. 8. ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so bad’ ––surely thus says the LORD––‘so will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, his princes, the residue of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt. 9. ‘I will deliver them to trouble into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their harm, to be a reproach and a byword, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them. 10. ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they are consumed from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’"
1. The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), 2. which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: 3. "From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, this is the twenty–third year in which the word of the LORD has come to me; and I have spoken to you, rising early and speaking, but you have not listened. 4. "And the LORD has sent to you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them , but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear. 5. "They said, ‘Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever. 6. ‘Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will not harm you.’ 7. "Yet you have not listened to Me," says the LORD, "that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. 8. "Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9. ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10. ‘Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11. ‘And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12. ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says the LORD; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation. 13. ‘So I will bring on that land all My words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied concerning all the nations. 14. ‘(For many nations and great kings shall be served by them also; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands.)’"
18. And it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" 19. So they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but some say Elijah; and others say that one of the old prophets has risen again." 20. He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God." 21. And He strictly warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, 22. saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day." 23. Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26. "For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. 27. "But I tell you truly, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God." 28. Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29. As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening. 30. And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, 31. who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32. But Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep; and when they were fully awake, they saw His glory and the two men who stood with Him. 33. Then it happened, as they were parting from Him, that Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here; and let us make three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah" ––not knowing what he said. 34. While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were fearful as they entered the cloud. 35. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!" 36. When the voice had ceased, Jesus was found alone. But they kept quiet, and told no one in those days any of the things they had seen.