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And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart.
But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power.
Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered,
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
