Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. So Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was concerned about Absalom. 2. And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead. 3. "Go to the king and speak to him in this manner." So Joab put the words in her mouth. 4. And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground and prostrated herself, and said, "Help, O king!" 5. Then the king said to her, "What troubles you?" And she answered, "Indeed I am a widow, my husband is dead. 6. "Now your maidservant had two sons; and the two fought with each other in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other and killed him. 7. "And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth." 8. Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you." 9. And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, "My lord, O king, let the iniquity be on me and on my father’s house, and the king and his throne be guiltless." 10. So the king said, "Whoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall not touch you anymore." 11. Then she said, "Please let the king remember the LORD your God, and do not permit the avenger of blood to destroy anymore, lest they destroy my son." And he said, " As the LORD lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground." 12. Therefore the woman said, "Please, let your maidservant speak another word to my lord the king." And he said, "Say on." 13. So the woman said: "Why then have you schemed such a thing against the people of God? For the king speaks this thing as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring his banished one home again. 14. "For we will surely die and become like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him. 15. "Now therefore, I have come to speak of this thing to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. And your maidservant said, ‘I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his maidservant. 16. ‘For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.’ 17. "Your maidservant said, ‘The word of my lord the king will now be comforting; for as the angel of God, so is my lord the king in discerning good and evil. And may the LORD your God be with you.’" 18. Then the king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not hide from me anything that I ask you." And the woman said, "Please, let my lord the king speak." 19. So the king said, " Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" And the woman answered and said, " As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken. For your servant Joab commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant. 20. "To bring about this change of affairs your servant Joab has done this thing; but my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that is in the earth." 21. And the king said to Joab, "All right, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, bring back the young man Absalom." 22. Then Joab fell to the ground on his face and bowed himself, and thanked the king. And Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled the request of his servant." 23. So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. 24. And the king said, "Let him return to his own house, but do not let him see my face." So Absalom returned to his own house, but did not see the king’s face. 25. Now in all Israel there was no one who was praised as much as Absalom for his good looks. From the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him. 26. And when he cut the hair of his head––at the end of every year he cut it because it was heavy on him––when he cut it, he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels according to the king’s standard. 27. To Absalom were born three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a woman of beautiful appearance. 28. And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, but did not see the king’s face. 29. Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king, but he would not come to him. And when he sent again the second time, he would not come. 30. So he said to his servants, "See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire." And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire. 31. Then Joab arose and came to Absalom’s house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my field on fire?" 32. And Absalom answered Joab, "Look, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, so that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still."’ Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; but if there is iniquity in me, let him execute me." 33. So Joab went to the king and told him. And when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom.
1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him bound in chains among all who were carried away captive from Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon. 2. And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him: "The LORD your God has pronounced this doom on this place. 3. "Now the LORD has brought it , and has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD, and not obeyed His voice, therefore this thing has come upon you. 4. "And now look, I free you this day from the chains that were on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you. But if it seems wrong for you to come with me to Babylon, remain here. See, all the land is before you; wherever it seems good and convenient for you to go, go there." 5. Now while Jeremiah had not yet gone back, Nebuzaradan said , "Go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people. Or go wherever it seems convenient for you to go." So the captain of the guard gave him rations and a gift and let him go. 6. Then Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to Mizpah, and dwelt with him among the people who were left in the land. 7. And when all the captains of the armies who were in the fields, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and the poorest of the land who had not been carried away captive to Babylon, 8. then they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah––Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. 9. And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath before them and their men, saying, "Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 10. "As for me, I will indeed dwell at Mizpah and serve the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken." 11. Likewise, when all the Jews who were in Moab, among the Ammonites, in Edom, and who were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, 12. then all the Jews returned out of all places where they had been driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruit in abundance. 13. Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, 14. and said to him, "Do you certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to murder you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam did not believe them. 15. Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, "Let me go, please, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it . Why should he murder you, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?" 16. But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You shall not do this thing, for you speak falsely concerning Ishmael."
1. Now it came to pass in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and of the officers of the king, came with ten men to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And there they ate bread together in Mizpah. 2. Then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, arose and struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land. 3. Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is , with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war. 4. And it happened, on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, when as yet no one knew it , 5. that certain men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD. 6. Now Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went along; and it happened as he met them that he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam!" 7. So it was, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah killed them and cast them into the midst of a pit, he and the men who were with him. 8. But ten men were found among them who said to Ishmael, "Do not kill us, for we have treasures of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field." So he desisted and did not kill them among their brethren. 9. Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, because of Gedaliah, was the same one Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain. 10. Then Ishmael carried away captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive and departed to go over to the Ammonites. 11. But when Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the forces that were with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, 12. they took all the men and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah; and they found him by the great pool that is in Gibeon. 13. So it was, when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were with him, that they were glad. 14. Then all the people whom Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned around and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. 15. But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites. 16. Then Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah after he had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam––the mighty men of war and the women and the children and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon. 17. And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their way to Egypt, 18. because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had murdered Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land.
20. Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21. "nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you." 22. Then He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it . 23. "And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them . 24. "For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. 25. "But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26. "And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27. "They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28. "Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29. "but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30. "Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31. "In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. 32. "Remember Lot’s wife. 33. "Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34. "I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. 35. "Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. 36. "Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left." 37. And they answered and said to Him, "Where, Lord?" So He said to them, "Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together."