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And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church.
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.
