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Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?
For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or ministers of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or custom, upon them.
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward go your way.
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
