The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country and your people. Leave your father’s family and go to the country I will show you.
Psalm 45:10 - Easy To Read Version My lady, {\cf2\super [277]} listen to me.\par Listen carefully and you will understand.\par Forget your people and your father’s family,\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear, O daughter, consider, submit, and consent to my instruction: forget also your own people and your father's house; American Standard Version (1901) Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house: Common English Bible Listen, daughter; pay attention, and listen closely! Forget your people and your father’s house. Catholic Public Domain Version carrying away wars even to the end of the earth. He will crush the bow and break the weapons, and he will burn the shield with fire. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire. |
The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country and your people. Leave your father’s family and go to the country I will show you.
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife. This way, two people become one.
Solomon’s ships went to Ophir. The ships brought about 31,500 pounds [126] of gold back from Ophir to King Solomon.
But Hobab answered, “No, I will not go with you. I will go back to my homeland and to my own people.”
“Any person that loves his father or mother more than he loves me is not good enough to follow me. Any person who loves his son or daughter more than he loves me is not good enough to follow me.
And every person that has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than he left. And that person will have life forever.
“If a person comes to me, but will not leave his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, or sisters, then that person cannot be my follower. A person must love me more than he loves anything—even his own life!
That is why we never become weak. Our physical body is becoming older and weaker, but our spirit inside us is made new every day.
“So come away from those people\par and separate yourselves from them,\par says the Lord.\par Touch nothing that is not clean,\par and I will accept you.”\par \i (Isaiah 52:11)\i0 \par
She must take off the clothes she was wearing that showed she was taken in war. She must stay in your house and be sad about losing her father and her mother for a full month. After that, you may go to her and become her husband. She will be your wife.
{They cared more for you, Lord, than for their own families.} They ignored their fathers and mothers. They did not recognize their brothers. They did not pay attention to their children. But they obeyed your commands. They kept your Agreement.