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Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
And to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at even;
And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.
The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.
