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And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.
I will freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for it is good.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter?
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
