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And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.
So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
