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Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him.
And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.
And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
