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37 Then he left them before the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant (Asaph and his brethren) to minister continually that which was to be done every day before the Ark.
38 And Obed-Edom and his brethren (sixty-eight) and Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were gatekeepers.
39 And Zadok the Priest and his brethren, the priests, were before the Tabernacle of the LORD, in the high place that was at Gibeon,
40 to offer Burnt Offerings to the LORD, upon the Burnt Offering Altar continually, in the morning and in the evening, according to all that is written in the Law of the LORD, which He Commanded Israel.
41 And with them were Heman and Jeduthun and the rest who were chosen, who were appointed by names to praise the LORD, because His mercy endures forever.
42 And with them were Heman and Jeduthun, to make a sound with the cornets and with the cymbals, with excellent instruments of music. And the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate.
43 And all the people departed, every man to his house. And David returned to bless his house.
17 Now afterward, when David dwelt in his house, he said to Nathan the Prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar trees. But the Ark of the LORD’s Covenant remains under curtains.”
2 Then Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”
3 And the same night, the Word of God came to Nathan, saying,
4 “Go and tell David, My servant, ‘Thus says the LORD: “You shall not build Me a house to dwell in.
5 “For I have dwelt in no house since the day that I brought out the children of Israel until this day. But I have been from tent to tent, and from habitation to habitation.
6 “Therefore, I have walked with all Israel. Have I spoken one word to any of the judges of Israel (whom I Commanded to feed My people) saying, ‘Why have you not built Me a house of cedar trees?’”’
7 “Now therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “I took you from the sheepfold, from following the sheep, so that you would be a prince over My people Israel.
8 “And I have been with you wherever you have walked and have destroyed all your enemies out of your sight and have made you a name like the name of the great men who are on the Earth.
9 “Also, I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant it, so that they may dwell in their place and no longer move. Nor shall the wicked people trouble them anymore, as at the beginning
10 “and since the time that I Commanded judges over My people Israel. And I will subdue all your enemies. Therefore, I say to you that the LORD will build you a House.
11 “And when your days shall be fulfilled, to go with your fathers, then I will raise up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons, and will establish his kingdom.
12 “He shall build Me a House. And I will establish his throne forever.
13 “I will be his father and he shall be my son and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.
14 “But I will establish him in My House, and in My Kingdom, forever. And his throne shall be established forever.”’”
15 According to all these words and according to all this vision Nathan spoke to David.
16 And David the king went in and sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O LORD God? And what is my House, that You have brought me this far?
17 “Yet You, esteeming this a small thing, O God, have also spoken concerning the house of your servant for a great while, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
18 “What more can David desire of You for the honor of Your servant? For You know Your servant.
19 “O LORD, for Your servant’s sake You have done all this great thing, according to Your Heart, to declare all magnificence.
20 “LORD, there is none like You! Nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears!
21 “Moreover what one nation on the Earth is like Your people Israel, whose God went to redeem them to be His people, and to make Yourself a Name, and to do great and fearful things by casting out Nations from before Your people, whom You have delivered out of Egypt?
22 “For You have ordained Your people Israel to be Your own people forever. And You, LORD, have become their God.
23 “Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that You have spoken concerning Your servant, and concerning his house, be confirmed forever. And do as You have said,
24 “and let Your Name be stable and magnified forever, so that it may be said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, is the God of Israel,’ and let the House of David, Your servant, be established before You.
25 “For You, O my God, have revealed to the ear of Your servant that You will build him a House. Therefore, Your servant has been bold to pray before You.
26 “Therefore now, LORD — for You are God, and have spoken this goodness to Your servant —
27 “now, therefore, it has pleased You to bless the House of Your servant, so that it may be before You forever. For You, O LORD, have blessed it. And it shall be blessed forever.”
18 And after this, David struck the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 And he struck Moab. And the Moabites became David’s servants and brought gifts.
3 And David struck Hadadezer, king of Zobah, out to Hamath, as he went to establish his border by the river Perath.
4 And David took a thousand chariots from him, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen, and destroyed all the chariots, but he reserved one hundred of the chariots.
5 Then, the Aramites of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, king of Zobah. But David killed twenty-two thousand of the Aramites.
6 And David put a garrison in Aram of Damascus. And the Aramites became David’s servants and brought gifts. And the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
7 And David took the shields of gold from the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
8 And David brought a large amount of bronze from Tibhath and from Chun (cities of Hadadezer), with which Solomon made the Bronze Sea and the pillars and the vessels of bronze.
9 Then Tou, king of Hamath, heard how David had struck all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah.
10 Therefore, he sent Hadoram, his son, to king David, to greet him and to rejoice with him, bringing him all vessels of gold and silver and bronze, because he had fought against Hadadezer and beaten him (for Tou had warred with Hadadezer).
11 And King David dedicated them to the LORD, with the silver and gold that he brought from all the nations, from Edom and from Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek.
12 And Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, struck eighteen thousand the of Edomites in the Salt Valley.
13 And he put a garrison in Edom. And all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
14 So, David reigned over all Israel and executed judgment and justice to all his people.
15 And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was over the army. And Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was recorder.
16 And Zadok, the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech, the son of Abiathar, were the Priests. And Shavsha was the Scribe.
17 And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And the sons of David were chief around the king.
2 Therefore, you are without excuse, O man. Whoever you are who judges! For in whatever you judge another, you judge yourself. For you who judge do the same things.
2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth, against those who commit such things.
3 And do you think, O man - who judges those who do such things and yet does the same - that you shall escape the judgment of God?
4 Or do you think so little of the riches of His bountifulness and patience and long suffering, not knowing that the bountifulness of God leads you to repentance?
5 But you, because of your hardness and unrepentant heart, are laying up a treasure of wrath for yourself on the Day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God,
6 Who will reward everyone according to his works
7 (indeed, everlasting life to those who, through patience in well-doing, seek glory and honor and immortality,
8 but to those who are contentious and disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath).
9 Tribulation and anguish shall be upon the soul of every man who does evil –the Jew first and also the Greek.
10 But glory and honor and peace shall be to everyone who does good - to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
11 For there is no partiality with God.
12 For as many as have sinned without the Law, shall also perish without the Law. And as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law,
13 (For the hearers of the Law are not righteous before God. But the doers of the Law shall be justified.
14 For when the Gentiles, who do not have the Law, instinctively do the things contained in the Law, then they - not having the Law - are a Law unto themselves,
15 who show the effect of the Law written on their hearts; their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts accusing one another, or excusing)
16 on the day when God shall judge the secrets of man by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the Law, and glory in God.
18 And you know His will, and test the things which dissent from it, being instructed by the Law.
19 And you persuade yourself that you are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
20 an instructor of those who lack discretion; a teacher of the unlearned, who has the semblance of knowledge and truth in the Law.
21 You therefore, who teaches another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
22 You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
23 You who glory in the Law, through breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?
24 For “the Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you”, as it is written.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever. The heathen are destroyed from His land.
17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the oppressed. You prepare their heart. You bend Your ear
18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, so that earthly man causes no more fear. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.
8 He who possesses understanding, loves his own soul; and keeps wisdom to find goodness.
9 A false witness shall not go unpunished. And he who speaks lies shall perish.
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