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And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD, that I die not:
And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:
But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD.
