- 2 Rois 6
  
  1 The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "See now, the place where we dwell before you is too small for us.
  
  2 Please let us go to the Jordan, and every man take a beam from there, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell." He answered, "Go!"
  
  3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."
  
  4 So he went with them. When they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
  
  5 But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed."
  
  6 The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
  
  7 He said, "Take it." So he put out his hand and took it.
  
  8 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, "My camp will be in such and such a place."
  
  9 The man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Beware that you not pass such a place; for the Syrians are coming down there."
  
  10 The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
  
  11 The heart of the king of Syria was very troubled about this. He called his servants, and said to them, "Won't you show me which of us is for the king of Israel?"
  
  12 One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
  
  13 He said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him." It was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
  
  14 Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night, and surrounded the city.
  
  15 When the servant of the man of God had risen early, and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was around the city. His servant said to him, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
  
  16 He answered, "Don't be afraid; for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
  
  17 Elisha prayed, and said, "Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see." Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
  
  18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
  
  19 Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city. Follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." He led them to Samaria.
  
  20 It happened, when they had come into Samaria, that Elisha said, "Yahweh, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw; and behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
  
  21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"
  
  22 He answered, "You shall not strike them. Would you strike those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master."
  
  23 He prepared great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The bands of Syria stopped raiding the land of Israel.
  
  24 It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his army, and went up and besieged Samaria.
  
  25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
  
  26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, saying, "Help, my lord, O king!"
  
  27 He said, "If Yahweh doesn't help you, from where could I help you? From of the threshing floor, or from the winepress?"
  
  28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'
  
  29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."
  
  30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.
  
  31 Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."
  
  32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Then the king sent a man from before him; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door shut against him. Isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?"
  
  33 While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, "Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?"
  
  Daniel 10
  
  1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
  
  2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
  
  3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.
  
  4 In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,
  
  5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, whose thighs were adorned with pure gold of Uphaz:
  
  6 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like burnished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
  
  7 I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men who were with me didn't see the vision; but a great quaking fell on them, and they fled to hide themselves.
  
  8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
  
  9 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
  
  10 Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.
  
  11 He said to me, Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright; for am I now sent to you. When he had spoken this word to me, I stood trembling.
  
  12 Then he said to me, Don't be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words' sake.
  
  13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; but, behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
  
  14 Now I have come to make you understand what shall happen to your people in the latter days; for the vision is yet for [many] days:
  
  15 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.
  
  16 Behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened my mouth, and spoke and said to him who stood before me, my lord, by reason of the vision my sorrows are turned on me, and I retain no strength.
  
  17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.
  
  18 Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me.
  
  19 He said, "Greatly beloved man, don't be afraid: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be strong." When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, "Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me."
  
  20 Then he said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I will return to fight with the prince of Persia. When I go forth, behold, the prince of Greece shall come.
  
  21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none who holds with me against these, but Michael your prince."
  
  1 Timothée 3
  
  1 This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer , he desires a good work.
  
  2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  
  3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  
  4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;
  
  5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)
  
  6 not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
  
  7 Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  
  8 Servants , in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;
  
  9 holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
  
  10 Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.
  
  11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  
  12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  
  13 For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  
  14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
  
  15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
  
  16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

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