19 Say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: Have you not murdered a man and seized his property?’(A) Then say to him, ‘This is what the Lord says: In the place where dogs licked up Naboth’s blood,(B) dogs(C) will lick up your blood—yes, yours!’”

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37 So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried him there.

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38 They washed the chariot at a pool in Samaria (where the prostitutes bathed),[a] and the dogs(A) licked up his blood, as the word of the Lord had declared.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 22:38 Or Samaria and cleaned the weapons

“But you, Bethlehem(A) Ephrathah,(B)
    though you are small among the clans[a] of Judah,
out of you will come for me
    one who will be ruler(C) over Israel,
whose origins are from of old,(D)
    from ancient times.”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 5:2 Or rulers

The Birth of Jesus

In those days Caesar Augustus(A) issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.(B) (This was the first census that took place while[a] Quirinius was governor of Syria.)(C) And everyone went to their own town to register.

So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem(D) the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:2 Or This census took place before

22 But now I urge you to keep up your courage,(A) because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed.

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31 Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”(A)

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32 So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.

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