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And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him;
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.
And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
