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And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.
And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.
And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
