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After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.
These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.
And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
