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2 Kings 21:1-6

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. ² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. ³ For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), 2 Ki 21:1–6.

Psalm 48

A Song and Psalm for the sons of Korah.

¹  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised

In the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

²  Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion,

On the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

³  God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

⁴  For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

⁵  They saw it, and so they marvelled;

They were troubled, and hasted away.

⁶  Fear took hold upon them there,

And pain, as of a woman in travail.

⁷  Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.

⁸  As we have heard, so have we seen

In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God:

God will establish it for ever. Selah.

⁹  We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God,

In the midst of thy temple.

¹⁰  According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth:

Thy right hand is full of righteousness.

¹¹  Let mount Zion rejoice,

Let the daughters of Judah be glad,

Because of thy judgments.

¹²  Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

¹³  Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces;

That ye may tell it to the generation following.

¹⁴  For this God is our God for ever and ever:

He will be our guide even unto death.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Ps 48:title–14.

Isaiah 1:1

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 1:1.

Isaiah 2:1-4

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

²  And it shall come to pass in the last days,

That the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be ^destablished in the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills;

And ^fall nations shall flow unto it.

³  And many people shall go and say,

Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

And he will teach us of his ways,

And we will walk in his paths:

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

⁴  And he shall judge among the nations,

And shall rebuke many people:

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into ^mpruninghooks:

Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Is 2:1–4.

Micah 5:2

But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah,

Though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,

Yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel;

Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mic 5:2.

Micah 4:8

And thou, O tower of ^sthe flock,

The strong hold of the daughter of Zion,

Unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion;

The kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mic 4:8.

Micah 4:1-3

But in the last days it shall come to pass,

That the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains,

And it shall be exalted above the hills;

And people shall flow unto it.

²  And many nations shall come, and say,

Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

And to the house of the God of Jacob;

And he will teach us of his ways,

And we will walk in his paths:

For the law shall go forth of Zion,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

³  And he shall judge among many people,

And rebuke strong nations afar off;

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares,

And their spears into pruninghooks:

Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation,

Neither shall they learn war any more.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mic 4:1–3.

Micah 1:1

The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Mic 1:1.

Joel 3:1-2

For, behold, in those days, and in that time,

When I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

²  I will also gather all nations,

And will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat,

And will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel,

Whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Joe 3:1–2.

Joel 3:9-12

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles;

Prepare war, wake up the mighty men,

Let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

¹⁰  Beat your plowshares into swords,

And your pruninghooks into spears:

Let the weak say, I am strong.

^{11  c}Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen,

And ^vgather yourselves together round about:

Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord.

¹²  Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat:

For there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version. (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Joe 3:9–12.