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Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem?
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.
And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.
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.
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
