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So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naamah an Ammonitess.
For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin.
The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
And they went out, and preached that men should repent.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
