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Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
And the sons of Lotan; Hori, and Homam: and Timna was Lotan's sister.
Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.
