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Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And when Bela was dead, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king's, saying,
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: which said, We will not come up:
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.
And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
