Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, "Get yourself ready, take this flask of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead. 2. "Now when you arrive at that place, look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, and go in and make him rise up from among his associates, and take him to an inner room. 3. "Then take the flask of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, ‘Thus says the LORD: "I have anointed you king over Israel."’ Then open the door and flee, and do not delay." 4. So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth Gilead. 5. And when he arrived, there were the captains of the army sitting; and he said, "I have a message for you, Commander." Jehu said, "For which one of us?" And he said, "For you, Commander." 6. Then he arose and went into the house. And he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel. 7. ‘You shall strike down the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of My servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. 8. ‘For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab all the males in Israel, both bond and free. 9. ‘So I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. 10. ‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel on the plot of ground at Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her .’" And he opened the door and fled. 11. Then Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, " Is all well? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his babble." 12. And they said, "A lie! Tell us now." So he said, "Thus and thus he spoke to me, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: "I have anointed you king over Israel."’" 13. Then each man hastened to take his garment and put it under him on the top of the steps; and they blew trumpets, saying, "Jehu is king!" 14. So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had been defending Ramoth Gilead, he and all Israel, against Hazael king of Syria. 15. But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds which the Syrians had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, "If you are so minded, let no one leave or escape from the city to go and tell it in Jezreel." 16. So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was laid up there; and Ahaziah king of Judah had come down to see Joram. 17. Now a watchman stood on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu as he came, and said, "I see a company of men." And Joram said, "Get a horseman and send him to meet them, and let him say, ‘ Is it peace?’" 18. So the horseman went to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king: ‘ Is it peace?’" And Jehu said, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me." So the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went to them, but is not coming back." 19. Then he sent out a second horseman who came to them, and said, "Thus says the king: ‘ Is it peace?’" And Jehu answered, "What have you to do with peace? Turn around and follow me." 20. So the watchman reported, saying, "He went up to them and is not coming back; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives furiously!" 21. Then Joram said, "Make ready." And his chariot was made ready. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite. 22. Now it happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, " Is it peace, Jehu?" So he answered, "What peace, as long as the harlotries of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft are so many?" 23. Then Joram turned around and fled, and said to Ahaziah, "Treachery, Ahaziah!" 24. Now Jehu drew his bow with full strength and shot Jehoram between his arms; and the arrow came out at his heart, and he sank down in his chariot. 25. Then Jehu said to Bidkar his captain, "Pick him up, and throw him into the tract of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember, when you and I were riding together behind Ahab his father, that the LORD laid this burden upon him: 26. ‘Surely I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will repay you in this plot,’ says the LORD. Now therefore, take and throw him on the plot of ground , according to the word of the LORD." 27. But when Ahaziah king of Judah saw this , he fled by the road to Beth Haggan. So Jehu pursued him, and said, "Shoot him also in the chariot." And they shot him at the Ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. Then he fled to Megiddo, and died there. 28. And his servants carried him in the chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his tomb with his fathers in the City of David. 29. In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah. 30. Now when Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it ; and she put paint on her eyes and adorned her head, and looked through a window. 31. Then, as Jehu entered at the gate, she said, " Is it peace, Zimri, murderer of your master?" 32. And he looked up at the window, and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" So two or three eunuchs looked out at him. 33. Then he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses; and he trampled her underfoot. 34. And when he had gone in, he ate and drank. Then he said, "Go now, see to this accursed woman , and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter." 35. So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36. Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, "This is the word of the LORD, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37. ‘and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, "Here lies Jezebel."’"
1. And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month , on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: ‘You are like a young lion among the nations, And you are like a monster in the seas, Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, And fouling their rivers.’ 3. "Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘I will therefore spread My net over you with a company of many people, And they will draw you up in My net. 4. Then I will leave you on the land; I will cast you out on the open fields, And cause to settle on you all the birds of the heavens. And with you I will fill the beasts of the whole earth. 5. I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass. 6. ‘I will also water the land with the flow of your blood, Even to the mountains; And the riverbeds will be full of you. 7. When I put out your light, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, And the moon shall not give her light. 8. All the bright lights of the heavens I will make dark over you, And bring darkness upon your land,’ Says the Lord GOD. 9. ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known. 10. ‘Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.’ 11. "For thus says the Lord GOD: ‘The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon you. 12. ‘By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of them the most terrible of the nations, I will cause your multitude to fall. ‘They shall plunder the pomp of Egypt, And all its multitude shall be destroyed. 13. Also I will destroy all its animals From beside its great waters; The foot of man shall muddy them no more, Nor shall the hooves of animals muddy them. 14. Then I will make their waters clear, And make their rivers run like oil,’ Says the Lord GOD. 15. ‘When I make the land of Egypt desolate, And the country is destitute of all that once filled it, When I strike all who dwell in it, Then they shall know that I am the LORD. 16. ‘This is the lamentation With which they shall lament her; The daughters of the nations shall lament her; They shall lament for her, for Egypt, And for all her multitude,’ Says the Lord GOD." 17. It came to pass also in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 18. "Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, And cast them down to the depths of the earth, Her and the daughters of the famous nations, With those who go down to the Pit: 19. ‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be placed with the uncircumcised.’ 20. "They shall fall in the midst of those slain by the sword; She is delivered to the sword, Drawing her and all her multitudes. 21. The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him out of the midst of hell With those who help him: ‘They have gone down, They lie with the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’ 22. "Assyria is there, and all her company, With their graves all around her, All of them slain, fallen by the sword. 23. Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit, And her company is all around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who caused terror in the land of the living. 24. "There is Elam and all her multitude, All around her grave, All of them slain, fallen by the sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth, Who caused their terror in the land of the living; Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit. 25. They have set her bed in the midst of the slain, With all her multitude, With her graves all around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; Though their terror was caused In the land of the living, Yet they bear their shame With those who go down to the Pit; It was put in the midst of the slain. 26. "There are Meshech and Tubal and all their multitudes, With all their graves around it, All of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, Though they caused their terror in the land of the living. 27. They do not lie with the mighty Who are fallen of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell with their weapons of war; They have laid their swords under their heads, But their iniquities will be on their bones, Because of the terror of the mighty in the land of the living. 28. Yes, you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, And lie with those slain by the sword. 29. "There is Edom, Her kings and all her princes, Who despite their might Are laid beside those slain by the sword; They shall lie with the uncircumcised, And with those who go down to the Pit. 30. There are the princes of the north, All of them, and all the Sidonians, Who have gone down with the slain In shame at the terror which they caused by their might; They lie uncircumcised with those slain by the sword, And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit. 31. "Pharaoh will see them And be comforted over all his multitude, Pharaoh and all his army, Slain by the sword," Says the Lord GOD. 32. "For I have caused My terror in the land of the living; And he shall be placed in the midst of the uncircumcised With those slain by the sword, Pharaoh and all his multitude," Says the Lord GOD.
1. The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: 2. Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; 3. nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; 4. and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. 5. Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble." 6. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7. casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. 8. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 9. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. 10. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you . 11. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. 12. By Silvanus, our faithful brother as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand. 13. She who is in Babylon, elect together with you , greets you; and so does Mark my son. 14. Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to you all who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.