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For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto the LORD:
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
