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Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.
Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
And I commanded, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.
That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And under the custody and charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the vessels thereof, and all that serveth thereto,
But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
