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Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over you:
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.
And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
