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Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?
That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.
Until I make thy foes thy footstool.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.
Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:
It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
