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And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
