- 2 Rois 10
  
  1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying,
  
  2 "Now as soon as this letter comes to you, since your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor.
  
  3 Select the best and fittest of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house."
  
  4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, "Behold, the two kings didn't stand before him! How then shall we stand?"
  
  5 He who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders also, and those who raised the children, sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants, and will do all that you ask us. We will not make any man king. You do that which is good in your eyes."
  
  6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, "If you are on my side, and if you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time." Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
  
  7 It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.
  
  8 A messenger came, and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." He said, "Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning."
  
  9 It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, "You are righteous. Behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?
  
  10 Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."
  
  11 So Jehu struck all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, with all his great men, his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
  
  12 He arose and departed, and went to Samaria. As he was at the shearing house of the shepherds on the way,
  
  13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, "Who are you?" They answered, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah. We are going down to greet the children of the king and the children of the queen."
  
  14 He said, "Take them alive!" They took them alive, and killed them at the pit of the shearing house, even forty-two men. He didn't leave any of them.
  
  15 When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, "Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?" Jehonadab answered, "It is." "If it is, give me your hand." He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
  
  16 He said, "Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh." So they made him ride in his chariot.
  
  17 When he came to Samaria, he struck all who remained to Ahab in Samaria, until he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah.
  
  18 Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.
  
  19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all of his worshippers, and all of his priests. Let none be absent; for I have a great sacrifice to Baal. Whoever is absent, he shall not live." But Jehu did it in subtlety, intending that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.
  
  20 Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!" They proclaimed it.
  
  21 Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn't come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
  
  22 He said to him who was over the vestry, "Bring out robes for all the worshippers of Baal!" He brought robes out to them.
  
  23 Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshippers of Baal, "Search, and look that there are here with you none of the servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only."
  
  24 They went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed him eighty men outside, and said, "If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he who lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him."
  
  25 It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, "Go in, and kill them! Let none escape." They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
  
  26 They brought out the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
  
  27 They broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine, to this day.
  
  28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
  
  29 However from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, Jehu didn't depart from after them, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
  
  30 Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
  
  31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
  
  32 In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
  
  33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
  
  34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
  
  35 Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. Jehoahaz his son reigned in his place.
  
  36 The time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.
  
  Osée 2
  
  1 "Say to your brothers, 'My people!' and to your sisters, 'My loved one!'
  
  2 Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
  
  3 Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
  
  4 Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;
  
  5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, 'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
  
  6 Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
  
  7 She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'
  
  8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
  
  9 Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.
  
  10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  
  11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
  
  12 I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,' and the animals of the field shall eat them.
  
  13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.
  
  14 "Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
  
  15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  
  16 It will be in that day," says Yahweh, "that you will call me 'my husband,' and no longer call me 'my master.'
  
  17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
  
  18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
  
  19 I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.
  
  20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
  
  21 It will happen in that day, I will respond," says Yahweh, "I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;
  
  22 and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.
  
  23 I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, 'You are my people;' and they will say, 'My God!'"
  
  2 Timothée 1
  
  1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,
  
  2 to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
  
  3 I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day
  
  4 longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
  
  5 having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.
  
  6 For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
  
  7 For God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  
  8 Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
  
  9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
  
  10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
  
  11 For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
  
  12 For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  
  13 Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  
  14 That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
  
  15 This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
  
  16 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,
  
  17 but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me
  
  18 (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

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