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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.
Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:
And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.
But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
