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1 Kings 18:3

Good News Translation (US Version)

so Ahab called in Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. (Obadiah was a devout worshiper of the Lord,

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I put two men in charge of governing the city of Jerusalem: my brother Hanani and Hananiah, commanding officer of the fortress. Hananiah was a reliable and God-fearing man without equal.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of God, who can destroy both body and soul in hell.

Zimri, one of his officers who was in charge of half of the king's chariots, plotted against him. One day in Tirzah, Elah was getting drunk in the home of Arza, who was in charge of the palace.

Those who fear him and do what is right are acceptable to him, no matter what race they belong to.

He was a religious man; he and his whole family worshiped God. He also did much to help the Jewish poor people and was constantly praying to God.

Then the people who feared the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord listened and heard what they said. In his presence, there was written down in a book a record of those who feared the Lord and respected him.

Reverence for the Lord gives confidence and security to a man and his family.

Every governor who had been in office before me had been a burden to the people and had demanded forty silver coins a day for food and wine. Even their servants had oppressed the people. But I acted differently, because I honored God.

The widow of a member of a group of prophets went to Elisha and said, “Sir, my husband has died! As you know, he was a God-fearing man, but now a man he owed money to has come to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.”

What if the spirit of the Lord carries you off to some unknown place as soon as I leave? Then, when I tell Ahab that you are here and he can't find you, he will put me to death. Remember that I have been a devout worshiper of the Lord ever since I was a boy.

On the third day Joseph said to them, “I am a God-fearing man, and I will spare your lives on one condition.

I will put you in charge of my country, and all my people will obey your orders. Your authority will be second only to mine.

I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?”

The servant, who was in charge of Abraham's property, took ten of his master's camels and went to the city where Nahor had lived in northern Mesopotamia.

He said to his oldest servant, who was in charge of all that he had, “Place your hand between my thighs and make a vow.

“Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him,” he said. “Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him.”

So Elijah started out. The famine in Samaria was at its worst,

God said to us humans, “To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil.”

Praise the Lord! Happy is the person who honors the Lord, who takes pleasure in obeying his commands.

In the same way the servant who had received two thousand coins earned another two thousand.




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