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Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
Therefore the LORD hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.
Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the LORD.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
