¹And the word of the Lord came to nJehu the son of oHanani against Baasha, saying, ²“Since I pexalted you out of the dust and made you leader over my people Israel, and qyou have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins, ³behold, I will utterly rsweep away sBaasha and his house, and I will make your house tlike the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. ⁴uAnyone belonging to Baasha who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the heavens shall eat.”

⁵Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? ⁶And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried at vTirzah, and Elah his son reigned in his place. ⁷Moreover, the word of the Lord came by the prophet nJehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because whe destroyed it.

Elah Reigns in Israel

⁸In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha began to reign over Israel in Tirzah, and he reigned two years. ⁹But his servant xZimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, ywho was over the household in Tirzah, ¹⁰Zimri came in and struck him down and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.

¹¹When he began to reign, as soon as he had seated himself on his throne, he struck down zall the house of Baasha. He adid not leave him a single male of his relatives or his friends. ¹²Thus Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, baccording to the word of the Lord, which he spoke against Baasha by nJehu the prophet, ¹³for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel to sin, cprovoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols. ¹⁴Now the rest of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Zimri Reigns in Israel

¹⁵In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the troops were encamped against dGibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, ¹⁶and the troops who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired, and he has killed the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp. ¹⁷So Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah. ¹⁸And when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went into the citadel of the king's house and burned the king's house over him with fire and died, ¹⁹because of his sins that he committed, doing evil in the sight of the Lord, ewalking in the way of Jeroboam, and for his sin which he committed, making Israel to sin. ²⁰Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy that he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Omri Reigns in Israel

²¹Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri. ²²But the people who followed Omri overcame the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath. So Tibni died, and Omri became king. ²³In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for twelve years; six years he reigned in Tirzah. ²⁴He bought the hill of fSamaria from Shemer for two talents1 of silver, and he fortified the hill and called the name of the city that he built gSamaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

²⁵hOmri did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and did more evil ithan all who were before him. ²⁶For ehe walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in the sins that he made Israel to sin, jprovoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols. ²⁷Now the rest of the acts of Omri that he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? ²⁸And Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigned in his place.

Ahab Reigns in Israel

²⁹In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah, Ahab the son of Omri began to reign over Israel, and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. ³⁰And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, kmore than all who were before him. ³¹And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, lhe took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the mSidonians, nand went and served Baal and worshiped him. ³²He erected an altar for Baal in othe house of Baal, which he built in Samaria. ³³And Ahab made an pAsherah. Ahab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger kthan all the kings of Israel who were before him. ³⁴qIn his days Hiel of Bethel built rJericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

Put On the New Self

¹bIf then you have been raised with Christ, seek cthe things that are above, where Christ is, dseated at the right hand of God. ²eSet your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. ³For fyou have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ gwho is your1 life happears, then you also will appear with him iin glory.

⁵jPut to death therefore kwhat is earthly in you:2 lsexual immorality, impurity, mpassion, evil desire, and covetousness, nwhich is idolatry. ⁶oOn account of these the wrath of God is coming.3 ⁷pIn these you too once walked, when you were living in them. ⁸But now qyou must put them all away: ranger, wrath, malice, sslander, and obscene talk from your mouth. ⁹tDo not lie to one another, seeing that uyou have put off vthe old self4 with its practices ¹⁰and whave put on xthe new self, ywhich is being renewed in knowledge zafter the image of aits creator. ¹¹bHere there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave,5 free; but Christ is call, and in all.

¹²dPut on then, as eGod's chosen ones, holy and beloved, fcompassionate hearts, gkindness, hhumility, meekness, and patience, ¹³hbearing with one another and, iif one has a complaint against another, gforgiving each other; gas the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. ¹⁴And above all these put on jlove, which kbinds everything together in lperfect harmony. ¹⁵And let mthe peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called nin one body. And obe thankful. ¹⁶Let pthe word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, qsinging psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, rwith thankfulness in your hearts to God. ¹⁷And swhatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, tgiving thanks to God the Father through him.

Rules for Christian Households

¹⁸uWives, submit to your husbands, as vis fitting in the Lord. ¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and wdo not be harsh with them. ²⁰Children, obey your parents xin everything, for this pleases the Lord. ²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. ²²Bondservants, obey xin everything those who are your earthly masters,6 not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. ²³yWhatever you do, work heartily, zas for the Lord and not for men, ²⁴knowing that from the Lord ayou will receive the inheritance as your reward. bYou are serving the Lord Christ. ²⁵For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

The Prince and the Feasts

¹“Thus says the Lord God: pThe gate of qthe inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days, but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened, and ron the day of the new moon it shall be opened. ²sThe prince shall enter by the vestibule of the gate from outside, and shall take his stand by tthe post of the gate. uThe priests shall offer his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at vthe threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be shut until evening. ³wThe people of the land shall bow down at the entrance of that gate before the Lord on the Sabbaths and on the new moons. ⁴xThe burnt offering that the prince offers to the Lord yon the Sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish. ⁵And zthe grain offering with the ram shall be an ephah,1 and the grain offering with the lambs shall be aas much as he is able, together with a hin2 of oil to each ephah. ⁶On the day of the new moon he shall offer a bull from the herd without blemish, and six lambs and a ram, which shall be without blemish. ⁷As a grain offering he shall provide an ephah with the bull and an ephah with the ram, and with the lambs bas much as he is able, together with a hin of oil to each ephah. ⁸cWhen the prince enters, he shall enter by the vestibule of the gate, and he shall go out by the same way.

⁹d“When the people of the land ecome before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by the north gate to worship shall go out by the south gate, and he who enters by the south gate shall go out by the north gate: no one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered, but each shall go out straight ahead. ¹⁰When they enter, fthe prince shall enter with them, and when they go out, he shall go out.

¹¹“At the feasts and the appointed festivals, zthe grain offering with a young bull shall be an ephah, and with a ram an ephah, and with the lambs bas much as one is able to give, together with a hin of oil to an ephah. ¹²When the prince provides ga freewill offering, either a burnt offering or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, hthe gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall offer his burnt offering or his peace offerings ias he does on the Sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and after he has gone out the gate shall be shut.

¹³j“You shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it. ¹⁴And kyou shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one sixth of an ephah, and one third of a hin of oil to moisten the flour, as a grain offering to the Lord. This is a perpetual statute. ¹⁵Thus the lamb and the meal offering and the oil shall be provided, morning by morning, for la regular burnt offering.

¹⁶“Thus says the Lord God: If the prince makes a gift to any of his sons as his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons. It is their property by inheritance. ¹⁷But if he makes a gift mout of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his to nthe year of liberty. Then it shall revert to the prince; surely it is his inheritance—it shall belong to his sons. ¹⁸oThe prince shall not take any of the inheritance of the people, pthrusting them out of their property. He shall give his sons their inheritance out of his own property, so that none of my people shall be qscattered from his property.”

Boiling Places for Offerings

¹⁹Then he brought me through the entrance, which was rat the side of the gate, to the north row of sthe holy chambers for the priests, and behold, a place was there at the extreme western end of them. ²⁰And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests tshall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where uthey shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so vtransmit holiness to the people.”

²¹Then he brought me out to the outer court and led me around to the four corners of the court. And behold, in each corner of the court there was another court— ²²in the four corners of the court were small3 courts, forty cubits4 long and thirty broad; the four were of the same size. ²³On the inside, around each of the four courts was a row of masonry, with hearths made at the bottom of the rows all around. ²⁴Then he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who wminister at the temple tshall boil the sacrifices of the people.”

Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is xfaint and ypours out his complaint before the Lord.

¹zHear my prayer, O Lord;

let my cry acome to you!

²bDo not hide your face from me

in cthe day of my distress!

dIncline your ear to me;

eanswer me speedily fin the day when I call!

³For my days gpass away like smoke,

and my hbones burn like a furnace.

⁴My heart is istruck down like grass and jhas withered;

I kforget to eat my bread.

⁵Because of my loud groaning

my lbones cling to my flesh.

⁶I am like ma desert owl of the wilderness,

like an owl1 of the waste places;

⁷I nlie awake;

I am like a lonely sparrow on the housetop.

⁸All the day my enemies taunt me;

those who oderide me puse my name for a curse.

⁹For I eat ashes like bread

and qmingle tears with my drink,

¹⁰because of your indignation and anger;

for you have rtaken me up and sthrown me down.

¹¹My days are like tan evening shadow;

I jwither away like grass.

¹²But you, O Lord, are uenthroned forever;

you vare remembered throughout all generations.

¹³You will warise and have xpity on Zion;

it is the time to favor her;

ythe appointed time has come.

¹⁴For your servants hold her zstones dear

and have pity on her dust.

¹⁵Nations will afear the name of the Lord,

and all bthe kings of the earth will fear your glory.

¹⁶For the Lord cbuilds up Zion;

he dappears in his glory;

¹⁷he eregards the prayer of the destitute

and does not despise their prayer.

¹⁸Let this be frecorded for ga generation to come,

so that ha people yet to be created may praise the Lord:

¹⁹that he ilooked down from his holy height;

from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,

²⁰to hear jthe groans of the prisoners,

to set free kthose who were doomed to die,

²¹that they may ldeclare in Zion the name of the Lord,

and in Jerusalem his praise,

²²when mpeoples gather together,

and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.

²³He has broken my strength in midcourse;

he nhas shortened my days.

²⁴“O my God,” oI say, “take me not away

in the midst of my days—

pyou whose years endure

throughout all generations!”

²⁵qOf old you laid the foundation of the earth,

and rthe heavens are the work of your hands.

²⁶sThey will perish, but tyou will remain;

they will all wear out like a garment.

You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away,

²⁷but uyou are the same, and your years have no end.

²⁸vThe children of your servants wshall dwell secure;

xtheir offspring shall be established before you.