Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Joshua 10:4 - Tree of Life Version “Come up and help me! Let’s attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and Bnei-Yisrael.” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Come up to me and help me, and let us smite Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites. American Standard Version (1901) Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon; for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. Common English Bible “Come up and help me. We will strike at Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and with the Israelites.” Catholic Public Domain Version "Ascend to me, and bring troops, so that we may fight against Gibeon. For it has fled over to Joshua and the sons of Israel." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel. |
Then Yeshua said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But you are not of the world, since I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hates you.
shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against our people and the Torah and this place. Besides, he has even brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this holy place!”
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Messiah Yeshua will be persecuted.
You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Now it came to pass that Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it—just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king—and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and remained among them.
So the five kings of the Amorites—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish and the king of Eglon—gathered themselves and went up, they and all their armies, camped against Gibeon and attacked it.
So Joshua made peace with them and cut a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore to them.
They are surprised that you do not run with them into the same riot of recklessness, and they vilify you.
For they are demonic spirits performing miraculous signs, who go out to the kings of the whole world—to gather them for battle on the great Day of Elohei Tzva’ot.