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But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
(Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley.) To morrow turn you, and get you into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed judgment and justice unto all his people.
They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
