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Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord GOD.
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.
So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.
And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
