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Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.
And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
