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The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD.
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and enquire of the LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
