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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD'S.
That these made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar.
The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:
Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples.
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
