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And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore? there hath he appointed it.
The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.
And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah-el:
And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,
He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.
And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.
