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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.
But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.
