Alpet 2022
King James Version
1. Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who reared Ahab’s sons , saying: 2. Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master’s sons are with you, and you have chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and weapons, 3. choose the best qualified of your master’s sons, set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house. 4. But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Look, two kings could not stand up to him; how then can we stand?" 5. And he who was in charge of the house, and he who was in charge of the city, the elders also, and those who reared the sons , sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, we will do all you tell us; but we will not make anyone king. Do what is good in your sight." 6. Then he wrote a second letter to them, saying: If you are for me and will obey my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them. 7. So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. 8. Then a messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons." And he said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until morning." 9. So it was, in the morning, that he went out and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Indeed I conspired against my master and killed him; but who killed all these? 10. "Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of the LORD which the LORD spoke concerning the house of Ahab; for the LORD has done what He spoke by His servant Elijah." 11. So Jehu killed all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his close acquaintances and his priests, until he left him none remaining. 12. And he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way, at Beth Eked of the Shepherds, 13. Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?" So they answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah; we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother." 14. And he said, "Take them alive!" So they took them alive, and killed them at the well of Beth Eked, forty–two men; and he left none of them. 15. Now when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab, coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is toward your heart?" And Jehonadab answered, "It is." Jehu said , "If it is, give me your hand." So he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot. 16. Then he said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD." So they had him ride in his chariot. 17. And when he came to Samaria, he killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed them, according to the word of the LORD which He spoke to Elijah. 18. Then Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, Jehu will serve him much. 19. "Now therefore, call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests. Let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Whoever is missing shall not live." But Jehu acted deceptively, with the intent of destroying the worshipers of Baal. 20. And Jehu said, "Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal." So they proclaimed it . 21. Then Jehu sent throughout all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. So they came into the temple of Baal, and the temple of Baal was full from one end to the other. 22. And he said to the one in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out vestments for all the worshipers of Baal." So he brought out vestments for them. 23. Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Rechab went into the temple of Baal, and said to the worshipers of Baal, "Search and see that no servants of the LORD are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal." 24. So they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed for himself eighty men on the outside, and had said, " If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escapes, whoever lets him escape, it shall be his life for the life of the other." 25. Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in and kill them; let no one come out!" And they killed them with the edge of the sword; then the guards and the officers threw them out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal. 26. And they brought the sacred pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them. 27. Then they broke down the sacred pillar of Baal, and tore down the temple of Baal and made it a refuse dump to this day. 28. Thus Jehu destroyed Baal from Israel. 29. However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin, that is , from the golden calves that were at Bethel and Dan. 30. And the LORD said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in doing what is right in My sight, and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation ." 31. But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart; for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, who had made Israel sin. 32. In those days the LORD began to cut off parts of Israel; and Hazael conquered them in all the territory of Israel 33. from the Jordan eastward: all the land of Gilead––Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh––from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, including Gilead and Bashan. 34. Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? 35. So Jehu rested with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. Then Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place. 36. And the period that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty–eight years.
1. Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2. "Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, 3. ‘when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, 4. ‘then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. 5. ‘He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life. 6. ‘But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’ 7. "So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me. 8. "When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man , you shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 9. "Nevertheless if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 10. "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the house of Israel: ‘Thus you say, "If our transgressions and our sins lie upon us, and we pine away in them, how can we then live?"’ 11. "Say to them: ‘ As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’ 12. "Therefore you, O son of man, say to the children of your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall because of it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; nor shall the righteous be able to live because of his righteousness in the day that he sins.’ 13. "When I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, but he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, none of his righteous works shall be remembered; but because of the iniquity that he has committed, he shall die. 14. "Again, when I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ if he turns from his sin and does what is lawful and right, 15. " if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has stolen, and walks in the statutes of life without committing iniquity, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 16. "None of his sins which he has committed shall be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17. "Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair! 18. "When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it. 19. "But when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he shall live because of it. 20. "Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, I will judge every one of you according to his own ways." 21. And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month , on the fifth day of the month, that one who had escaped from Jerusalem came to me and said, "The city has been captured!" 22. Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the man came who had escaped. And He had opened my mouth; so when he came to me in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute. 23. Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 24. "Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.’ 25. "Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: "You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? 26. "You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another’s wives. Should you then possess the land?"’ 27. "Say thus to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: " As I live, surely those who are in the ruins shall fall by the sword, and the one who is in the open field I will give to the beasts to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and caves shall die of the pestilence. 28. "For I will make the land most desolate, her arrogant strength shall cease, and the mountains of Israel shall be so desolate that no one will pass through. 29. "Then they shall know that I am the LORD, when I have made the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed."’ 30. "As for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking about you beside the walls and in the doors of the houses; and they speak to one another, everyone saying to his brother, ‘Please come and hear what the word is that comes from the LORD.’ 31. "So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. 32. "Indeed you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do not do them. 33. "And when this comes to pass––surely it will come––then they will know that a prophet has been among them."
1. Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: 2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, 3. as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, 4. by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6. to knowledge self–control, to self–control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7. to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11. for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 12. For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. 13. Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you , 14. knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. 15. Moreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease. 16. For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. 17. For He received from God the Father honor and glory when such a voice came to Him from the Excellent Glory: "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 18. And we heard this voice which came from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain. 19. And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20. knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21. for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.