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And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;
Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.
Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!
And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.
Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
