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And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.
But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.
But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
