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But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:
Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?
For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
