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And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O LORD, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
Give us this day our daily bread.
And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.
Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil, it was so much.
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.
For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
