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Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.
And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.
And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
