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one end to another, besides his sin by which You dried up mighty rivers.
he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of 16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
the LORD. You have prepared the light and the sun.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh—all 17 You have set all the borders of the
that he did, and the sin that he committed—are earth;
they not written in the book of the chronicles You have made summer and winter.
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of the kings of Judah? So Manasseh rested
with his fathers, and was buried in the garden Proverbs 19:1–2
of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then 19 Better is the poor who walks
his son Amon reigned in his place. in his integrity
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he Than one who is perverse in his lips,
became king, and he reigned two years in Je- and is a fool.
rusalem. His mother’s name was Meshul-
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lemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. And 2 Also it is not good for a soul to be
he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his without knowledge,
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father Manasseh had done. So he walked in And he sins who hastens with his feet.
all the ways that his father had walked; and he
served the idols that his father had served, Acts 2:1–21
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and worshiped them. He forsook the LORD When the Day of Pentecost had fully come,
God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way 2 they were all with one accord in one place.
of the LORD. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heav-
23 Then the servants of Amon conspired en, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the
against him, and killed the king in his own whole house where they were sitting. Then
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house. But the people of the land executed there appeared to them divided tongues, as of
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all those who had conspired against King fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they
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Amon. Then the people of the land made his
son Josiah king in his place.
25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he
did, are they not written in the book of the 2:3 The disciples could not comprehend the
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chronicles of the kings of Judah? And he was significance of the Spirit’s arrival without the
buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then Lord sovereignly illustrating what was occur-
Josiah his son reigned in his place. ring with a visible phenomenon.tongues,as of
Psalm 74:9–17 fire. Just as the sound, like wind, was symbolic,
these were not literal flames of fire but super-
9 We do not see our signs; natural indicators, like fire, that God had sent
There is no longer any prophet; the Holy Spirit upon each believer. In Scripture,
Nor is there any among us who knows fire often denoted the divine presence (Ex.3:2–6).
how long. God’s use of a firelike appearance here parallels
10 O God, how long will the adversary what He did with the dove when Jesus was bap-
reproach? tized (Matt.3:11;Luke 3:16).
Will the enemy blaspheme Your name
forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
Your right hand? speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave
Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them utterance.
them. 5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews,
12 For God is my King from of old, devout men, from every nation under heaven.
Working salvation in the midst of the 6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude
earth. came together, and were confused, because
13 You divided the sea by Your strength; everyone heard them speak in his own lan-
You broke the heads of the sea guage. Then they were all amazed and mar-
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serpents in the waters. veled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all
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14 You broke the heads of Leviathan in these who speak Galileans? And how is it that
pieces, we hear, each in our own language in which we
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And gave him as food to the people were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites,
inhabiting the wilderness. those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and
15 You broke open the fountain and the Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and
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flood; Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya
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