Add parallel Print Page Options

At that time gifts will be brought to the Lord of hosts from[a] a people tall and smooth, from a people feared near and far, a nation mighty and conquering, whose land the rivers divide, to Mount Zion, the place of the name of the Lord of hosts.(A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 18.7 Q ms Gk Vg: MT of

At that time gifts(A) will be brought to the Lord Almighty

from a people tall and smooth-skinned,(B)
    from a people feared(C) far and wide,
an aggressive nation of strange speech,
    whose land is divided by rivers(D)

the gifts will be brought to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the Lord Almighty.(E)

Read full chapter

When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.

Read full chapter

But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus(A) basket[a] for him and coated it with tar and pitch.(B) Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds(C) along the bank of the Nile.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 2:3 The Hebrew can also mean ark, as in Gen. 6:14.

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, King Shishak of Egypt came up against Jerusalem(A) with twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand cavalry. A countless army came with him from Egypt: Libyans, Sukkiim, and Cushites.(B) He took the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Read full chapter

Because they had been unfaithful(A) to the Lord, Shishak(B) king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem in the fifth year of King Rehoboam. With twelve hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen and the innumerable troops of Libyans,(C) Sukkites and Cushites[a](D) that came with him from Egypt, he captured the fortified cities(E) of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:3 That is, people from the upper Nile region