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So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Moreover the porters, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren that kept the gates, were an hundred seventy and two.
And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.
Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
The rings, and nose jewels,
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
