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For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.
This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
And he placed forces in all the fenced cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
