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But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.
And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
