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----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnie Parrett" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:16 PM Subject: Daily Bible Reading For Thursday February 26 > Deuteronomy 19-21 (The Message) > > Deuteronomy 19 > 1-3 When God, your God, throws the nations out of the country > that God, your God, is giving you and you settle down in their cities and > houses, you are to set > aside three easily accessible cities in the land that God, > your God, is giving you as your very own. Divide your land into thirds, > this land that God, your > God, is giving you to possess, and build roads to the > towns so that anyone who accidentally kills another can flee there. > > 4-7 This is the guideline for the murderer who flees there to take refuge: > He has to have killed > his neighbor without premeditation and with no history > of bad blood between them. For instance, a man goes with his neighbor into > the woods to cut a tree; > he swings the ax, the head slips off the handle and > hits his neighbor, killing him. He may then flee to one of these cities > and save his life. If the > city is too far away, the avenger of blood racing in > hot-blooded pursuit might catch him since it's such a long distance, and > kill him even though he > didn't deserve it. It wasn't his fault. There was no history > of hatred between them. Therefore I command you: Set aside the three > cities for yourselves. > > 8-10 When God, your God, enlarges your land, extending its borders as he > solemnly promised your > ancestors, by giving you the whole land he promised them > because you are diligently living the way I'm commanding you today, > namely, to love God, your God, > and do what he tells you all your life; and when that > happens, then add three more to these three cities so that there is no > chance of innocent blood > being spilled in your land. God, your God, is giving you > this land as an inheritance-you don't want to pollute it with innocent > blood and bring bloodguilt > upon yourselves. > > 11-13 On the other hand, if a man with a history of hatred toward his > neighbor waits in ambush, > then jumps him, mauls and kills him, and then runs to one > of these cities, that's a different story. The elders of his own city are > to send for him and have > him brought back. They are to hand him over to the avenger > of blood for execution. Don't feel sorry for him. Clean out the pollution > of wrongful murder from > Israel so that you'll be able to live well and breathe > clean air. > > 14 Don't move your neighbor's boundary markers, the longstanding landmarks > set up by your pioneer > ancestors defining their property. > > 15 You cannot convict anyone of a crime or sin on the word of one witness. > You need two or three > witnesses to make a case. > > 16-21 If a hostile witness stands to accuse someone of a wrong, then both > parties involved in the > quarrel must stand in the Presence of God before the > priests and judges who are in office at that time. The judges must conduct > a careful investigation; > if the witness turns out to be a false witness and > has lied against his fellow Israelite, give him the same medicine he > intended for the other party. > Clean the polluting evil from your company. People will > hear of what you've done and be impressed; that will put a stop to this > kind of evil among you. > Don't feel sorry for the person: It's life for life, eye > for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. > > Deuteronomy 20 > 1-4 When you go to war against your enemy and see horses and chariots and > soldiers far outnumbering > you, do not recoil in fear of them; God, your God, > who brought you up out of Egypt is with you. When the battle is about to > begin, let the priest come > forward and speak to the troops. He'll say, "Attention, > Israel. In a few minutes you're going to do battle with your enemies. > Don't waver in resolve. Don't > fear. Don't hesitate. Don't panic. God, your God, is > right there with you, fighting with you against your enemies, fighting to > win." > > 5-7 Then let the officers step up and speak to the troops: "Is there a man > here who has built a new > house but hasn't yet dedicated it? Let him go home > right now lest he die in battle and another man dedicate it. And is there > a man here who has planted > a vineyard but hasn't yet enjoyed the grapes? Let > him go home right now lest he die in battle and another man enjoy the > grapes. Is there a man here > engaged to marry who hasn't yet taken his wife? Let him > go home right now lest he die in battle and another man take her." > > 8 The officers will then continue, "And is there a man here who is > wavering in resolve and afraid? > Let him go home right now so that he doesn't infect > his fellows with his timidity and cowardly spirit." > > 9 When the officers have finished speaking to the troops, let them appoint > commanders of the troops > who shall muster them by units. > > 10-15 When you come up against a city to attack it, call out, "Peace?" If > they answer, "Yes, > peace!" and open the city to you, then everyone found there > will be conscripted as forced laborers and work for you. But if they don't > settle for peace and > insist on war, then go ahead and attack. God, your God, > will give them to you. Kill all the men with your swords. But don't kill > the women and children and > animals. Everything inside the town you can take as > plunder for you to use and eat-God, your God, gives it to you. This is the > way you deal with the > distant towns, the towns that don't belong to the nations > at hand. > > 16-18 But with the towns of the people that God, your God, is giving you > as an inheritance, it's > different: don't leave anyone alive. Consign them to holy > destruction: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and > Jebusites, obeying the > command of God, your God. This is so there won't be any > of them left to teach you to practice the abominations that they engage in > with their gods and you > end up sinning against God, your God. > > 19-20 When you mount an attack on a town and the siege goes on a long > time, don't start cutting > down the trees, swinging your axes against them. Those > trees are your future food; don't cut them down. Are trees soldiers who > come against you with > weapons? The exception can be those trees which don't produce > food; you can chop them down and use the timbers to build siege engines > against the town that is > resisting you until it falls. > > Deuteronomy 21 > 1-8If a dead body is found on the ground, this ground that God, your God, > has given you, lying out > in the open, and no one knows who killed him, your leaders > and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the > nearest cities. The leaders > and judges of the city that is nearest the corpse will > then take a heifer that has never been used for work, never had a yoke on > it. The leaders will take > the heifer to a valley with a stream, a valley that > has never been plowed or planted, and there break the neck of the heifer. > The Levitical priests will > then step up. God has chosen them to serve him in > these matters by settling legal disputes and violent crimes and by > pronouncing blessings in God's > name. Finally, all the leaders of that town that is nearest > the body will wash their hands over the heifer that had its neck broken at > the stream and say, "We > didn't kill this man and we didn't see who did it. Purify > your people Israel whom you redeemed, O God. Clear your people Israel from > any guilt in this > murder." > > 8-9 That will clear them from any responsibility in the murder. By > following these procedures you > will have absolved yourselves of any part in the murder > because you will have done what is right in God's sight. > > 10-14 When you go to war against your enemies and God, your God, gives you > victory and you take > prisoners, and then you notice among the prisoners of war > a good-looking woman whom you find attractive and would like to marry, > this is what you do: Take her > home; have her trim her hair, cut her nails, and discard > the clothes she was wearing when captured. She is then to stay in your > home for a full month, > mourning her father and mother. Then you may go to bed with > her as husband and wife. If it turns out you don't like her, you must let > her go and live wherever > she wishes. But you can't sell her or use her as a slave > since you've humiliated her. > > 15-17 When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they > both give him sons, but the > firstborn is from the hated wife, at the time he divides > the inheritance with his sons he must not treat the son of the loved wife > as the firstborn, cutting > out the son of the hated wife, who is the actual firstborn. > No, he must acknowledge the inheritance rights of the real firstborn, the > son of the hated wife, by > giving him a double share of the inheritance: that > son is the first proof of his virility; the rights of the firstborn belong > to him. > > 18-20 When a man has a stubborn son, a real rebel who won't do a thing his > mother and father tell > him, and even though they discipline him he still won't > obey, his father and mother shall forcibly bring him before the leaders at > the city gate and say to > the city fathers, "This son of ours is a stubborn rebel; > he won't listen to a thing we say. He's a glutton and a drunk." > > 21 Then all the men of the town are to throw rocks at him until he's dead. > You will have purged the > evil pollution from among you. All Israel will hear > what's happened and be in awe. > > 22-23 When a man has committed a capital crime, been given the death > sentence, executed and hung > from a tree, don't leave his dead body hanging overnight > from the tree. Give him a decent burial that same day so that you don't > desecrate your God-given > land-a hanged man is an insult to God. > > Please join us on Skype Monday thru Friday at 8:00 EST for our Morning > Skype Prayer Time. > > > Contact Me At: > Donnie Parrett > 1956 Asa Flat Road > Annville, Kentucky 40402 > Home Phone: 606-364-3321 > Church Phone: 606-364-PRAY > Skype Name: Donnie1261 > Email: [email protected] > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. 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