The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he
be a cause of trespass to Israel?
CH1 21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore
Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
CH1 21:5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David.
And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand
men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten
thousand men that drew sword.
CH1 21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the
king's word was abominable to Joab.
CH1 21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: any man here? that thou shalt say, No.
JDG 4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an
hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into
his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and
weary. So he died.
JDG 4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet
him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou
seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and
the nail was in his temples.
JDG 4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the
children of Israel.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: JDG 1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up
out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the
wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and
dwelt among the people.
JDG 1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the
Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the
name of the city was called Hormah.
JDG 1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with
the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof.
JDG 1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants
of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley,
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