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Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
Give ye now commandment to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not builded, until another commandment shall be given from me.
And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
The son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.
And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the LORD their God. And all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
