1 Chronicles 5

Descendants of Reuben

¹The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (cfor he was the firstborn, but because dhe defiled his father's couch, ehis birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son; ²fthough Judah became strong among his brothers and a gchief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph), ³the hsons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. ⁴The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, ⁵Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, ⁶Beerah his son, whom iTiglath-pileser1 king of Assyria carried away into exile; he was a chief of the Reubenites. ⁷And his kinsmen by their clans, jwhen the genealogy of their generations was recorded: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, ⁸and Bela the son of Azaz, son of kShema, son of Joel, who lived in lAroer, as far as mNebo and nBaal-meon. ⁹He also lived to the east as far as the entrance of the desert this side of the Euphrates, because their livestock had multiplied oin the land of Gilead. ¹⁰And in the days of Saul they waged war against the pHagrites, who fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents throughout all the region east of Gilead.

Descendants of Gad

¹¹The sons of Gad lived over against them in the land of Bashan as far as qSalecah: ¹²Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. ¹³And their kinsmen according to their fathers' houses: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia and Eber, seven. ¹⁴These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. ¹⁵Ahi the son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' houses, ¹⁶and they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of rSharon to their limits. ¹⁷All of these were recorded in genealogies in the days of sJotham king of Judah, and in the days of tJeroboam king of Israel.

¹⁸The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried shield and sword, and drew the bow, uexpert in war, 44,760, able to go to war. ¹⁹They waged war against the vHagrites, wJetur, Naphish, and Nodab. ²⁰And when they prevailed2 over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, xfor they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea ybecause they trusted in him. ²¹They carried off their livestock: 50,000 of their camels, 250,000 sheep, 2,000 donkeys, and 100,000 men alive. ²²For many fell, because the war was of God. And they lived zin their place until athe exile.

The Half-Tribe of Manasseh

²³The members of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land. They were very numerous from Bashan to Baal-hermon, bSenir, and Mount Hermon. ²⁴These were the heads of their fathers' houses: Epher,3 Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty warriors, famous men, heads of their fathers' houses. ²⁵But they broke faith with the God of their fathers, and cwhored dafter the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. ²⁶So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of ePul king of Assyria, the spirit of fTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them gto Halah, gHabor, Hara, and gthe river Gozan, to this day.

1 Chronicles 6

Descendants of Levi

¹1 hThe sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. ²iThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. ³jThe children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. kThe sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. ⁴lmEleazar fathered nPhinehas, Phinehas fathered Abishua, ⁵Abishua fathered Bukki, Bukki fathered Uzzi, ⁶Uzzi fathered Zerahiah, Zerahiah fathered oMeraioth, ⁷Meraioth fathered Amariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, ⁸pAhitub fathered qZadok, Zadok fathered Ahimaaz, ⁹Ahimaaz fathered Azariah, Azariah fathered Johanan, ¹⁰and Johanan fathered Azariah (rit was he who served as priest sin the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem). ¹¹lAzariah fathered tAmariah, Amariah fathered Ahitub, ¹²Ahitub fathered Zadok, Zadok fathered uShallum, ¹³Shallum fathered vHilkiah, Hilkiah fathered Azariah, ¹⁴Azariah fathered wSeraiah, Seraiah fathered Jehozadak; ¹⁵and xJehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile yby the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

¹⁶2 The zsons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. ¹⁷And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: aLibni and Shimei. ¹⁸bThe sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron and Uzziel. ¹⁹cThe sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their fathers. ²⁰dOf Gershom: Libni his son, eJahath his son, Zimmah his son, ²¹Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. ²²fThe sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, ²³Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, ²⁴Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. ²⁵The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, ²⁶Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, ²⁷Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. ²⁸The sons of Samuel: Joel3 his firstborn, the second Abijah.4 ²⁹gThe sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, ³⁰Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.

³¹These are the men hwhom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord iafter the ark rested there. ³²They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting until Solomon built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem, and they performed their service according to their order. ³³These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of jSamuel, ³⁴son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, ³⁵son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, ³⁶son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, ³⁷son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, ³⁸son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; ³⁹and his brother kAsaph, who stood on his right hand, namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, ⁴⁰son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malchijah, ⁴¹son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, ⁴²son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, ⁴³son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. ⁴⁴On the left hand were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, ⁴⁵son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, ⁴⁶son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, ⁴⁷son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. ⁴⁸And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

⁴⁹But Aaron and his sons made offerings lon the altar of burnt offering and on mthe altar of incense for all the work of the Most Holy Place, and nto make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. ⁵⁰oThese are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, ⁵¹Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, ⁵²Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, ⁵³Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son.

⁵⁴These are their dwelling places according to their psettlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the qclans of Kohathites, for theirs was the first lot, ⁵⁵to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, ⁵⁶rbut the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷sTo the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, ⁵⁸Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, ⁵⁹Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands; ⁶⁰and from the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon,5 Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities throughout their clans were thirteen.

⁶¹tTo the rest of the Kohathites were given by lot out of the clan of the tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities. ⁶²To the Gershomites according to their clans were allotted thirteen cities out of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Manasseh in Bashan. ⁶³uTo the Merarites according to their clans were allotted twelve cities out of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. ⁶⁴vSo the people of Israel gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. ⁶⁵They gave by lot out of the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin wthese cities that are mentioned by name.

⁶⁶xAnd some of the clans of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, ⁶⁸yJokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-horon with its pasturelands, ⁶⁹Aijalon with its pasturelands, Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands, ⁷⁰and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands, for the rest of the clans of the Kohathites.

⁷¹zTo the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and aAshtaroth with its pasturelands; ⁷²and out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, ⁷³Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands; ⁷⁴out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, ⁷⁵Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands; ⁷⁶and out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. ⁷⁷bTo the rest of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: cRimmono with its pasturelands, cTabor with its pasturelands, ⁷⁸and dbeyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, ⁷⁹Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands; ⁸⁰and out of the tribe of Gad: eRamoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, fMahanaim with its pasturelands, ⁸¹gHeshbon with its pasturelands, and hJazer with its pasturelands.

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

¹For since the law has but va shadow wof the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, xit can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. ²Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? ³But yin these sacrifices zthere is a reminder of sins every year. ⁴For ait is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

⁵Consequently, bwhen Christ1 came into the world, he said,

c“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,

but a body have you prepared for me;

⁶in burnt offerings and sin offerings

you have taken no pleasure.

⁷Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,

as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

⁸When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in csacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), ⁹then he added, d“Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will ewe have been sanctified through the offering of fthe body of Jesus Christ gonce for all.

¹¹And every priest stands hdaily at his service, ioffering repeatedly the same sacrifices, jwhich can never take away sins. ¹²But when Christ2 had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he ksat down at the right hand of God, ¹³waiting from that time luntil his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. ¹⁴For by a single offering mhe has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.

¹⁵And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

¹⁶n“This is the covenant that I will make with them

after those days, declares the Lord:

I will put my laws on their hearts,

and write them on their minds,”

¹⁷then he adds,

o“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

¹⁸Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.

The Full Assurance of Faith

¹⁹pTherefore, brothers,3 since we have confidence to enter qthe holy places by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by rthe new and living way that he opened for us through sthe curtain, that is, through his flesh, ²¹and since we have ta great priest over the house of God, ²²let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts usprinkled clean vfrom an evil conscience and our bodies wwashed with pure water. ²³xLet us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for yhe who promised is faithful. ²⁴And zlet us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, ²⁵anot neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and ball the more as you see cthe Day drawing near.

²⁶For dif we go on sinning deliberately eafter receiving the knowledge of the truth, fthere no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, ²⁷gbut a fearful expectation of judgment, and ha fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. ²⁸iAnyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy jon the evidence of two or three witnesses. ²⁹How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one kwho has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned lthe blood of the covenant mby which he was sanctified, and has noutraged the Spirit of grace? ³⁰For we know him who said, o“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, p“The Lord will judge his people.” ³¹qIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

³²But recall the former days when, after ryou were enlightened, you endured sa hard struggle with sufferings, ³³sometimes being tpublicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. ³⁴For uyou had compassion on those in prison, and vyou joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had wa better possession and an abiding one. ³⁵Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has xa great reward. ³⁶For yyou have need of endurance, so that zwhen you have done the will of God you may areceive what is promised. ³⁷For,

b“Yet a little while,

and cthe coming one will come and will not delay;

³⁸dbut my righteous one shall live by faith,

and if he shrinks back,

my soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

¹“Hear this word, hyou cows of Bashan,

who are ion the mountain of Samaria,

jwho oppress the poor, jwho crush the needy,

who say to your husbands, ‘Bring, that we may drink!’

²kThe Lord God has sworn by his holiness

that, behold, the days are coming upon you,

lwhen they shall take you away with hooks,

leven the last of you with fishhooks.

³mAnd you shall go out through the breaches,

each one straight ahead;

and you shall be cast out into Harmon,”

declares the Lord.

⁴n“Come to Bethel, and transgress;

to oGilgal, and multiply transgression;

nbring your psacrifices every morning,

your tithes every three days;

⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of qthat which is leavened,

and proclaim rfreewill offerings, publish them;

sfor so you love to do, O people of Israel!”

declares the Lord God.

Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord

⁶“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,

and tlack of bread in all your places,

uyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

⁷“I also vwithheld the rain from you

when there were yet three months to the harvest;

wI would send rain on one city,

and send no rain on another city;

one field would have rain,

and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

⁸so two or three cities xwould wander to another city

to drink water, and would not be satisfied;

uyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

⁹y“I struck you with blight and mildew;

your many gardens and your vineyards,

your fig trees and your olive trees zthe locust devoured;

uyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

¹⁰“I sent among you a pestilence aafter the manner of Egypt;

I killed your young men with the sword,

and bcarried away your horses,1

and cI made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;

uyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

¹¹“I overthrew some of you,

das when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

and you were eas a brand2 plucked out of the burning;

uyet you did not return to me,”

declares the Lord.

¹²“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel;

because I will do this to you,

prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”

¹³For behold, fhe who forms the mountains and creates the wind,

and gdeclares to man what is his thought,

hwho makes the morning darkness,

and itreads on the heights of the earth—

jthe Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!

Psalm 148

Praise the Name of the Lord

¹rPraise the Lord!

Praise the Lord sfrom the heavens;

praise him tin the heights!

²Praise him, all his angels;

praise him, all his uhosts!

³Praise him, sun and moon,

praise him, all you shining stars!

⁴Praise him, you vhighest heavens,

and you wwaters above the heavens!

⁵xLet them praise the name of the Lord!

For yhe commanded and they were created.

⁶And he zestablished them forever and ever;

he gave aa decree, and it shall not bpass away.1

⁷Praise the Lord cfrom the earth,

you dgreat sea creatures and all deeps,

⁸efire and hail, fsnow and mist,

gstormy wind hfulfilling his word!

⁹iMountains and all hills,

jfruit trees and all kcedars!

¹⁰lBeasts and all livestock,

creeping things and mflying birds!

¹¹Kings of the earth and nall peoples,

princes and all rulers of the earth!

¹²Young men and maidens together,

old men and children!

¹³oLet them praise the name of the Lord,

for phis name alone is exalted;

qhis majesty is above earth and heaven.

¹⁴He has rraised up a horn for his people,

spraise for all his saints,

for the people of Israel who are tnear to him.

uPraise the Lord!

Psalm 149

Sing to the Lord a New Song

¹uPraise the Lord!

Sing to the Lord va new song,

his praise in wthe assembly of the godly!

²Let Israel xbe glad in yhis Maker;

let the children of Zion rejoice in their zKing!

³Let them praise his name with adancing,

making melody to him with btambourine and clyre!

⁴For the Lord dtakes pleasure in his people;

he eadorns the humble with salvation.

⁵Let the godly exult in glory;

let them fsing for joy on their gbeds.

⁶Let hthe high praises of God be in their throats

and itwo-edged swords in their hands,

⁷to execute vengeance on the nations

and punishments on the peoples,

⁸to bind their kings with jchains

and their nobles with fetters of iron,

⁹to execute on them the judgment kwritten!

lThis is honor for all his godly ones.

uPraise the Lord!

Psalm 150

Let Everything Praise the Lord

¹uPraise the Lord!

Praise God in his msanctuary;

praise him in nhis mighty heavens!1

²Praise him for his omighty deeds;

praise him according to his excellent pgreatness!

³Praise him with qtrumpet sound;

praise him with rlute and rharp!

⁴Praise him with stambourine and sdance;

praise him with tstrings and upipe!

⁵Praise him with sounding vcymbals;

praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

⁶Let weverything that has breath praise the Lord!

xPraise the Lord!