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Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.
Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.
After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.
