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But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols:
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead.
And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and brought the king word back again, saying, All that was committed to thy servants, they do it.
But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
