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Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,
And these are their names: The son of Hur, in mount Ephraim:
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
Of the children of Naphtali, throughout their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.
But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.
Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
