Chapter 5<\/h4>

27<\/small><\/span> After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, \"Follow me!\"\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> He left everything, and rose up and followed him.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, \"Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?\"\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Jesus answered them, \"Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#9: A Wedding Banquet Runs Out Of Wine<\/strong>
\nJohn 2:1-12\u00a0<\/em>

Chapter 2<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> The third day, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, \"They have no wine.\"\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to her, \"Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come.\"\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> His mother said to the servants, \"Whatever he says to you, do it.\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Jesus said to them, \"Fill the water pots with water.\" They filled them up to the brim.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Now draw some out, and take it to the ruler of the feast.\" So they took it.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> When the ruler of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and didn't know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the ruler of the feast called the bridegroom,\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> and said to him, \"Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#8: Abraham\u2019s Feast For Isaac Splits His Family<\/strong>
\nGenesis 21:1-10 <\/em>

Chapter 21<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Sarah said, \"God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.\"\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> She said, \"Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Therefore she said to Abraham, \"Cast out this handmaid and her son! For the son of this handmaid will not be heir with my son, Isaac.\"\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#7: King Belshazzar Sees The Writing On The Wall<\/strong>
\nDaniel 5:1-31 <\/em>

Chapter 5<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his face was changed in him, and his lords were perplexed.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> [Now] the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; don't let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel, Are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my father brought out of Judah?\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known to me its interpretation; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Then Daniel answered before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty:\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he killed, and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals', and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don't see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and brought it to an end;\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#6: Nabal Foolishly Parties Like A King<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Samuel 25:1-44 <\/em>

Chapter 25<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful face: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, \"Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> You shall tell him, 'Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore, let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.'\"\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> When David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Nabal answered David's servants, and said, \"Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?\"\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> David said to his men, \"Every man put on his sword!\" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, \"Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to Greet our master; and he railed at them.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his house; for he is such a worthless fellow that one can't speak to him.\"\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> She said to her young men, \"Go on before me. Behold, I come after you.\" But she didn't tell her husband, Nabal.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Now David had said, \"Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.\"\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> She fell at his feet, and said, \"On me, my lord, on me be the iniquity; and please let your handmaid speak in your ears. Hear the words of your handmaid.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, since Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Please forgive the trespass of your handmaid. For Yahweh will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be found in you all your days.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> It shall come to pass, when Yahweh has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh has dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.\"\r\n<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> David said to Abigail, \"Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!\r\n<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> Blessed is your discretion, and blessed are you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.\r\n<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> For indeed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.\"\r\n<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, \"Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request.\"\r\n<\/p>

36<\/small><\/span> Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.\r\n<\/p>

37<\/small><\/span> It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.\r\n<\/p>

38<\/small><\/span> It happened about ten days after, that Yahweh struck Nabal, so that he died.\r\n<\/p>

39<\/small><\/span> When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, \"Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.\" David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.\r\n<\/p>

40<\/small><\/span> When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, \"David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.\"\r\n<\/p>

41<\/small><\/span> She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, \"Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.\"\r\n<\/p>

42<\/small><\/span> Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.\r\n<\/p>

43<\/small><\/span> David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they both became his wives.\r\n<\/p>

44<\/small><\/span> Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\nTop 10 Worst Parties Of The Bible Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s face it: Nothing spoils a party like unwanted or uninvited guests. That\u2019s certainly the case with these two parties that didn\u2019t get invited to be on our list of the Top Ten Worst Parties Of The Bible.<\/p>\n

The Parable Of The Great Banquet<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Luke 14:15-24<\/em>

Chapter 14<\/h4>

15<\/small><\/span> When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, \"Blessed is he who will feast in the Kingdom of God!\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> But he said to him, \"A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, 'Come, for everything is ready now.'\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> They all as one began to make excuses. \"The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.'\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> \"Another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.'\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> \"Another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I can't come.'\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> \"That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.'\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> \"The servant said, 'Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.'\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> \"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.'\"\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Isaac Prepares A Feast For His Enemies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Genesis 26:1-31<\/em>

Chapter 26<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Yahweh appeared to him, and said, \"Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> Isaac lived in Gerar.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, \"She is my sister,\" for he was afraid to say, \"My wife,\" lest, he thought, \"the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Abimelech called Isaac, and said, \"Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'\" Isaac said to him, \"Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'\"\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Abimelech said, \"What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!\"\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, \"He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.\"\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Abimelech said to Isaac, \"Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.\"\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, \"The water is ours.\" He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, \"For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.\"\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> He went up from there to Beersheba.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, \"I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake.\"\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Isaac said to them, \"Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?\"\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> They said, \"We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh.\"\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.\r\n<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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#5: Queen Vashti Stands-Up The King<\/strong>
\nEsther 1:1-22<\/em>

Chapter 1<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> that in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> When these days were fulfilled, the king made a seven day feast for all the people who were present in Shushan the palace, both great and small, in the court of the garden of the king's palace.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> They gave them drinks in golden vessels of various kinds, including royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> In accordance with the law, the drinking was not compulsory; for so the king had instructed all the officials of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcass, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for it was the king's custom to consult those who knew law and judgment;\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> \"What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Memucan answered before the king and the princes, \"Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.'\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's deed will tell all the king's princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> \"If it please the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> When the king's decree which he shall make is published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give their husbands honor, both great and small.\"\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan:\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#4: Laban Gives Jacob The Old Bride Bait-And Switch<\/strong>
\nGenesis 29:1-30\u00a0<\/em>

Chapter 29<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> Jacob said to them, \"My relatives, where are you from?\" They said, \"We are from Haran.\"\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?\" They said, \"We know him.\"\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Is it well with him?\" They said, \"It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep.\"\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> He said, \"Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the livestock together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them.\"\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> They said, \"We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep.\"\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she kept them.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> It happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Laban said to him, \"Surely you are my bone and my flesh.\" He lived with him for a month.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Laban said to Jacob, \"Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> Jacob loved Rachel. He said, \"I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> Laban said, \"It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.\"\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.\r\n<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Jacob said to Laban, \"Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.\"\r\n<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.\r\n<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> It happened in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.\r\n<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.\r\n<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, \"What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?\"\r\n<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> Laban said, \"It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.\r\n<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you will serve with me yet seven other years.\"\r\n<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. He gave him Rachel his daughter as wife.\r\n<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.\r\n<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#3: Sampson\u2019s Marriage Feast Is Quite A Riddle<\/strong>
\nJudges 14:1-20\u00a0<\/em>

Chapter 14<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, \"I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.\"\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> Then his father and his mother said to him, \"Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?\" Samson said to his father, \"Get her for me; for she pleases me well.\"\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and behold, a young lion roared against him.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> After a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave to them, and they ate: but he didn't tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> It happened, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Samson said to them, \"Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;\r\n<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> but if you can't declare it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.\" They said to him, \"Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.\"\r\n<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Out of the eater came forth food. Out of the strong came forth sweetness.\" They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.\r\n<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, \"Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not [so]?\"\r\n<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> Samson's wife wept before him, and said, \"You just hate me, and don't love me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me.\" He said to her, \"Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?\"\r\n<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.\r\n<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, \"What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?\" He said to them, \"If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle.\"\r\n<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.\r\n<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> But Samson's wife was [given] to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.\r\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#2: The Jewish People Have A Cow<\/strong>
\nExodus 32:1-35\u00a0<\/em>

Chapter 32<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, \"Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.\"<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> Aaron said to them, \"Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.\"<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> All the people took off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, \"These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.\"<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, \"Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.\"<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace-offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Yahweh spoke to Moses, \"Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'\"<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Moses, \"I have seen these people, and, behold, they are a stiff-necked people.<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.\"<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, \"Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, 'He brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?' Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.<\/p>

13<\/small><\/span> Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'\"<\/p>

14<\/small><\/span> Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.<\/p>

15<\/small><\/span> Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.<\/p>

16<\/small><\/span> The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tables.<\/p>

17<\/small><\/span> When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, \"There is the noise of war in the camp.\"<\/p>

18<\/small><\/span> He said, \"It isn't the voice of those who shout for victory, neither is it the voice of those who cry for being overcome; but the noise of those who sing that I hear.\"<\/p>

19<\/small><\/span> It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.<\/p>

20<\/small><\/span> He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.<\/p>

21<\/small><\/span> Moses said to Aaron, \"What did this people to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?\"<\/p>

22<\/small><\/span> Aaron said, \"Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.<\/p>

23<\/small><\/span> For they said to me, 'Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him.'<\/p>

24<\/small><\/span> I said to them, 'Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:' so they gave it me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.\"<\/p>

25<\/small><\/span> When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies,)<\/p>

26<\/small><\/span> then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, \"Whoever is on Yahweh's side, come to me!\" All the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.<\/p>

27<\/small><\/span> He said to them, \"Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.\"<\/p>

28<\/small><\/span> The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.<\/p>

29<\/small><\/span> Moses said, \"Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow on you a blessing this day.\"<\/p>

30<\/small><\/span> It happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, \"You have sinned a great sin. Now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.\"<\/p>

31<\/small><\/span> Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, \"Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.<\/p>

32<\/small><\/span> Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin-- and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.\"<\/p>

33<\/small><\/span> Yahweh said to Moses, \"Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.<\/p>

34<\/small><\/span> Now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, my angel shall go before you. Nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.\"<\/p>

35<\/small><\/span> Yahweh struck the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.<\/p><\/div>\n

Translation: World English Bible<\/em><\/p>\n

\n#1: King Herod\u2019s Birthday Party Ends In Beheading<\/strong>
\nMatthew 14:1-12\u00a0<\/em>

Chapter 14<\/h4>

1<\/small><\/span> At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,\r\n<\/p>

2<\/small><\/span> and said to his servants, \"This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.\"\r\n<\/p>

3<\/small><\/span> For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.\r\n<\/p>

4<\/small><\/span> For John said to him, \"It is not lawful for you to have her.\"\r\n<\/p>

5<\/small><\/span> When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.\r\n<\/p>

6<\/small><\/span> But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.\r\n<\/p>

7<\/small><\/span> Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.\r\n<\/p>

8<\/small><\/span> She, being prompted by her mother, said, \"Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.\"\r\n<\/p>

9<\/small><\/span> The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,\r\n<\/p>

10<\/small><\/span> and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.\r\n<\/p>

11<\/small><\/span> His head was brought on a platter, and given to the young lady: and she brought it to her mother.\r\n<\/p>

12<\/small><\/span> His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.\r\n<\/p><\/div>
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