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If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.
Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
