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July 26
“‘You will succeed,’ said the Lord. ‘Go ahead
and do it.’
22 “So you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit
in the mouths of your prophets. For the Lord
has pronounced your doom.”
23 Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah walked
up to Micaiah and slapped him across the face.
“Since when did the Spirit of the Lord leave
me to speak to you?” he demanded.
24 And Micaiah replied, “You will find out
soon enough when you are trying to hide in
some secret room!”
25 “Arrest him!” the king of Israel ordered.
“Take him back to Amon, the governor of the
city, and to my son Joash. 26 Give them this
order from the king: ‘Put this man in prison,
and feed him nothing but bread and water
until I return safely from the battle!’”
27 But Micaiah replied, “If you return safely,
it will mean that the Lord has not spoken
through me!” Then he added to those standing
around, “Everyone mark my words!”
28 So King Ahab of Israel and King Jehosh
a
phat of Ju
dah led their armies against
Ramoth-gilead. 29 The king of Israel said to Je
hoshaphat, “As we go into battle, I will disguise
myself so no one will recognize me, but you
wear your royal robes.” So the king of Israel
disguised himself, and they went into battle.
30 Meanwhile, the king of Aram had issued
these orders to his chario
t commanders:
“Attack only the king of Israel! Don’t bother
with anyone else.” 31 So when the Aramean
chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat in his
royal robes, they went after him. “There is the
king of Israel!” they shouted. But Jehosha
phat called out, and the Lord saved him. God
helped him by turning the attackers away
from him. 32 As soon as the chariot command
ers realized he was not the king of Israel, they
stopped chasing him.
33 An Aramean soldier, however, randomly
shot an arrow at the I sraelite troops and hit
the king of Israel between the joints of his
armor. “Turn the horses* and get me out of
here!” Ahab groaned to the driver of the char
iot. “I’m badly wounded!”
34 The battle raged all that day, and the king
of Israel propped himself up in his chariot fac
ing the Arameans. In the evening, just as the
sun was setting, he died.
17:3 Some Hebrew manuscripts read the example of his
father, David.
17:6 Hebrew His heart was courageous in.
18:16 Hebrew These people have no master.
18:33 Hebrew Turn
your hand.
ROMANS 9:25–10:13
Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the
prophecy of Hosea,
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“Those who were not my people,
I will now call my people.
And I will love those
whom I did not love before.”*
26 And,
“Then, at the place where they were told,
‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called
‘children of the living God.’”*
27 And concerning Israel, Isaiah the prophet
cried out,
28
“Though the people of Israel are as
numerous as the sand of the seashore,
only a remnant will be saved.
For the Lord will carry out his sentence
upon the earth
quickly and with finality.”*
29 And
place:
Isaiah said the same thing in another
“If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
had not spared a few of our children,
we would have been wiped out like
Sodom,
destroyed like Gomorrah.”*
30 What does all this mean? Even though the
Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s stan
dards, they were made right with God. And
it was by faith that this took place. 31 But the
people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right
with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
32 Why not? Because they were trying to get
right with God by keeping the law* instead
of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the
great rock in their path. 33 God warned them of
this in the Scriptures when he said,
“I am placing a stone in Jerusalem* that
makes people stumble,
a rock that makes them fall.
But anyone who trusts in him
will never be disgraced.”*
10:1 Dear brothers and sisters,* the longing
of my heart and my prayer to God is for the
people of Israel to be saved. 2 I know what
enthusiasm they have for God, but it is mis
on’t understand
directed zeal. 3 For they d
God’s way of making people right with him
self. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling
to their own way of getting right with God by
trying to keep the law. 4 For Christ has already
accomplished the purpose for which the law
was given.* As a result, all who believe in him
are made right with God.
5 For
Moses writes that the law’s way of
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