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Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.
And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.
And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.
And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.
I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.
Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
And, behold, thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite of Bahurim, which cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim: but he came down to meet me at Jordan, and I sware to him by the LORD, saying, I will not put thee to death with the sword.
Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
