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And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.
And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
