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Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
So David's young men turned their way, and went again, and came and told him all those sayings.
Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshipped the LORD there.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.
For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.
All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of their's: neither shall there be wailing for them.
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Now therefore come, let me, I pray thee, give thee counsel, that thou mayest save thine own life, and the life of thy son Solomon.
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
