Rabu, 20 November

10.   Now these were the heads of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel. 11.   And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam the son of a Hachmonite, chief of the captains; he had lifted up his spear against three hundred, killed by him at one time. 12.   After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men. 13.   He was with David at Pasdammim. Now there the Philistines were gathered for battle, and there was a piece of ground full of barley. And the people fled from the Philistines. 14.   But they stationed themselves in the middle of that field, defended it, and killed the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory. 15.   Now three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines encamped in the Valley of Rephaim. 16.   David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. 17.   And David said with longing, "Oh, that someone would give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!" 18.   So the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless David would not drink it, but poured it out to the LORD. 19.   And he said, "Far be it from me, O my God, that I should do this! Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy ? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." Therefore he would not drink it. These things were done by the three mighty men. 20.   Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of another three. He had lifted up his spear against three hundred men , killed them , and won a name among these three. 21.   Of the three he was more honored than the other two men. Therefore he became their captain. However he did not attain to the first three. 22.   Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion–like heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day. 23.   And he killed an Egyptian, a man of great height, five cubits tall. In the Egyptian’s hand there was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, wrested the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and killed him with his own spear. 24.   These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and won a name among three mighty men. 25.   Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him over his guard. 26.   Also the mighty warriors were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, 27.   Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, 28.   Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, 29.   Sibbechai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, 30.   Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, 31.   Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah, of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, 32.   Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, 33.   Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, 34.   the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shageh the Hararite, 35.   Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, 36.   Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, 37.   Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai, 38.   Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, 39.   Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite (the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah), 40.   Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, 41.   Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, 42.   Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite (a chief of the Reubenites) and thirty with him, 43.   Hanan the son of Maachah, Joshaphat the Mithnite, 44.   Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, 45.   Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite, 46.   Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite, 47.   Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

1.   The word of the LORD that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2.   When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea: "Go, take yourself a wife of harlotry And children of harlotry, For the land has committed great harlotry By departing from the LORD." 3.   So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. 4.   Then the LORD said to him: "Call his name Jezreel, For in a little while I will avenge the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, And bring an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. 5.   It shall come to pass in that day That I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel." 6.   And she conceived again and bore a daughter. Then God said to him: "Call her name Lo–Ruhamah, For I will no longer have mercy on the house of Israel, But I will utterly take them away. 7.   Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen." 8.   Now when she had weaned Lo–Ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. 9.   Then God said: "Call his name Lo–Ammi, For you are not My people, And I will not be your God . 10.   "Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There it shall be said to them, ‘ You are sons of the living God.’ 11.   Then the children of Judah and the children of Israel Shall be gathered together, And appoint for themselves one head; And they shall come up out of the land, For great will be the day of Jezreel!

1.   Say to your brethren, ‘My people,’ And to your sisters, ‘Mercy is shown .’ 2.   "Bring charges against your mother, bring charges; For she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband! Let her put away her harlotries from her sight, And her adulteries from between her breasts; 3.   Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst. 4.   "I will not have mercy on her children, For they are the children of harlotry. 5.   For their mother has played the harlot; She who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, Who give me my bread and my water, My wool and my linen, My oil and my drink.’ 6.   "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And wall her in, So that she cannot find her paths. 7.   She will chase her lovers, But not overtake them; Yes, she will seek them, but not find them . Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, For then it was better for me than now.’ 8.   For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold–– Which they prepared for Baal. 9.   "Therefore I will return and take away My grain in its time And My new wine in its season, And will take back My wool and My linen, Given to cover her nakedness. 10.   Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand. 11.   I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths––All her appointed feasts. 12.   "And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, Of which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’ So I will make them a forest, And the beasts of the field shall eat them. 13.   I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot," says the LORD. 14.   "Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. 15.   I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. 16.   "And it shall be, in that day," Says the LORD, " That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’ 17.   For I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, And they shall be remembered by their name no more. 18.   In that day I will make a covenant for them With the beasts of the field, With the birds of the air, And with the creeping things of the ground. Bow and sword of battle I will shatter from the earth, To make them lie down safely. 19.   "I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy; 20.   I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD. 21.   "It shall come to pass in that day That I will answer," says the LORD; "I will answer the heavens, And they shall answer the earth. 22.   The earth shall answer With grain, With new wine, And with oil; They shall answer Jezreel. 23.   Then I will sow her for Myself in the earth, And I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; Then I will say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people!’ And they shall say, ‘ You are my God!’"

1.   Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2.   And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son , to betray Him, 3.   Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4.   rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5.   After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6.   Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, "Lord, are You washing my feet?" 7.   Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." 8.   Peter said to Him, "You shall never wash my feet!" Jesus answered him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." 9.   Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" 10.   Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." 11.   For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean." 12.   So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13.   "You call me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14.   "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15.   "For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16.   "Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17.   "If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18.   "I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ 19.   "Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He . 20.   "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me."