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In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,
And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
