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And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.
So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house of the LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
