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And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
He hath also stablished them for ever and ever: he hath made a decree which shall not pass.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
