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Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes:
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
The men of Anathoth, an hundred twenty and eight.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the LORD was with them.
And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)
