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And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
Then all Israel gathered themselves to David unto Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.
And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
