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Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:
The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs,
Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
