- 2 Samuel 15
  
  1 It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.
  
  2 Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."
  
  3 Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you."
  
  4 Absalom said moreover, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!"
  
  5 It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
  
  6 Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
  
  7 It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
  
  8 For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, 'If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.'"
  
  9 The king said to him, "Go in peace." So he arose, and went to Hebron.
  
  10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron!'"
  
  11 Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn't know anything.
  
  12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
  
  13 A messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."
  
  14 David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, "Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom. Make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil on us, and strike the city with the edge of the sword."
  
  15 The king's servants said to the king, "Behold, your servants are ready to do whatever my lord the king chooses."
  
  16 The king went forth, and all his household after him. The king left ten women, who were concubines, to keep the house.
  
  17 The king went forth, and all the people after him; and they stayed in Beth Merhak.
  
  18 All his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men who came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
  
  19 Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
  
  20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you."
  
  21 Ittai answered the king, and said, "As Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall is, whether for death or for life, even there also will your servant be."
  
  22 David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
  
  23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
  
  24 Behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people finished passing out of the city.
  
  25 The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
  
  26 but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."
  
  27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
  
  28 Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."
  
  29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem; and they stayed there.
  
  30 David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  
  31 Someone told David, saying, "Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom." David said, "Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness."
  
  32 It happened that when David had come to the top, where God was worshiped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat torn, and earth on his head.
  
  33 David said to him, "If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me;
  
  34 but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'
  
  35 Don't you have Zadok and Abiathar the priests there with you? Therefore it shall be, that whatever thing you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
  
  36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, Abiathar's son; and by them you shall send to me everything that you shall hear."
  
  37 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
  
  Ezéchiel 22
  
  1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  2 You, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
  
  3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
  
  4 You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.
  
  5 Those who are near, and those who are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous one [and] full of tumult.
  
  6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
  
  7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
  
  8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
  
  9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten on the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
  
  10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her who was unclean in her impurity.
  
  11 One has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's daughter.
  
  12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  13 Behold, therefore, I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
  
  14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
  
  15 I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries; and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
  
  16 You shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  
  17 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  18 Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
  
  19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
  
  20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
  
  21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in its midst.
  
  22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so you will be melted in its midst; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath on you.
  
  23 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  24 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation.
  
  25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.
  
  26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  
  27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
  
  28 Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has not spoken.
  
  29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  
  30 I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
  
  31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  2 Corinthiens 8
  
  1 Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
  
  2 how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their liberality.
  
  3 For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
  
  4 begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.
  
  5 This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
  
  6 So we urged Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace.
  
  7 But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.
  
  8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.
  
  9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
  
  10 I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you, who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.
  
  11 But now complete the doing also, that as there was the readiness to be willing, so there may be the completion also out of your ability.
  
  12 For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what you have, not according to what you don't have.
  
  13 For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
  
  14 but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack; that there may be equality.
  
  15 As it is written, "He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack."
  
  16 But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
  
  17 For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.
  
  18 We have sent together with him the brother whose praise in the Good News is known through all the assemblies.
  
  19 Not only so, but who was also appointed by the assemblies to travel with us in this grace, which is served by us to the glory of the Lord himself, and to show our readiness.
  
  20 We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.
  
  21 Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
  
  22 We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
  
  23 As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
  
  24 Therefore show the proof of your love to them in front of the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

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