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Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.
LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.
Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
