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Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; If thou wilt assuredly go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thine house:
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.
And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.
