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But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.
And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.
Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the LORD thy God.
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard that he had done this miracle.
And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
