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So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.
He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God:
He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.
When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;
