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Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.
Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down.
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
