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Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar,
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.
