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1 Chronicles 15:1-16:6
Chapter 15
The Ark Comes to Jerusalem
1 David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.(a) 2 Then David said, "No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before Him forever."(b)
3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem(c) to bring the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it.(d) 4 Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:
5 From the Kohathites, Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives; 6 from the Merarites, Asaiah the leader and 220 of his relatives; 7 from the Gershomites,[a] Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives; 8 from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the leader and 200 of his relatives; 9 from the Hebronites, Eliel the leader and 80 of his relatives; 10 from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.
11 David summoned the priests Zadok(e) and Abiathar(f) and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12 He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves(g) so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.(h) 13 For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn't inquire of Him about the proper procedures."(i) 14 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. 15 Then the Levites carried the ark of God the way Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord : on their shoulders with the poles.(j)
16 Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.(k) 17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from their relatives the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah. 18 With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel,[b] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel. 19 The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals; 20 Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;[c] 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to the Sheminith. 22 Chenaniah, the leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music because he was skillful. 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark. 24 The priests, Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, were to blow trumpets(l) before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be gatekeepers for the ark.
25 David,(m) the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom.(n) 26 While the Levites were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord , with God's help, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.(o)
27 Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the music leader of the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. 28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram's horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres. 29 As the ark of the covenant of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David dancing[d] and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
Chapter 16
1 They(a) brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it.(b) Then they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in God's presence. 2 When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. 3 Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.
4 David appointed some of the Levites to be ministers before the ark of the Lord , to celebrate the Lord God of Israel, and to give thanks and praise to Him. 5 Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals 6 and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.
Zechariah 4
Chapter 4
Fifth Vision: Gold Lampstand
1 The angel who was speaking with me then returned and roused me as one awakened out of sleep. 2 He asked me, "What do you see?"
I replied, "I see a solid gold lampstand there with a bowl on its top. It has seven lamps on it and seven channels for each of[a] the lamps on its top. 3 There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left."
4 Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"
5 "Don't you know what they are?" replied the angel who was speaking with me.
I said, "No, my lord."
6 So he answered me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by strength or by might, but by My Spirit,'(a) says the Lord of Hosts. 7 ‘What are you, great mountain?(b) Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain.(c) And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!'"
8 Then the word of the Lord came to me:(d) 9 "Zerubbabel's hands have laid the foundation of this house,(e) and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent me to you. 10 For who scorns the day of small things?(f) These seven eyes of the Lord , which scan throughout the whole earth, will rejoice when they see the plumb line[b] in Zerubbabel's hand."(g)
11 I asked him, "What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?" 12 And I questioned him further, "What are the two olive branches beside the two gold conduits, from which golden oil pours out?"
13 Then he inquired of me, "Don't you know what these are?"
"No, my lord," I replied.
14 "These are the two anointed ones,"[c](h) he said, "who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."(i)
John 4:1-26
Chapter 4
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 When Jesus[a] knew that the Pharisees(a) heard He was making(b) and baptizing more disciples than John(c) 2 (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were), 3 He left Judea(d) and went again to Galilee.(e) 4 He had to travel through Samaria,(f) 5 so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property[b] that Jacob(g) had given his son Joseph.(h) 6 Jacob's well(i) was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.[c]
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.(j)
"Give Me a drink," Jesus said to her, 8 for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 "How is it that You, a Jew,(k) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan(l) woman?" she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with[d] Samaritans.[e]
10 Jesus answered, "If you knew the gift of God,(m) and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,' you would ask Him, and He would give you living water." (n)
11 "Sir,"(o) said the woman, "You don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water'? 12 You aren't greater than our father Jacob,(p) are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock."
13 Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever!(q) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well [f](r) of water springing up within him for eternal life." (s)
15 "Sir," the woman said to Him, "give me this water so I won't get thirsty and come here to draw water."
16 "Go call your husband," He told her, "and come back here."
17 "I don't have a husband," she answered.
"You have correctly said, ‘I don't have a husband,'" Jesus said. 18 "For you've had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."
19 "Sir," the woman replied, "I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,[g](t) yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem."(u)
21 Jesus told her, "Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans[h] worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.(v) 23 But an hour is coming, and is now here,(w) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him. 24 God is spirit,(x) and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (y)
25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah[i](z) is coming" (who is called Christ(aa)). "When He comes, He will explain everything to us."
26 "I am He," (ab) Jesus told her, "the One speaking to you."
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