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And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:
Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.
Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
