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This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service, in the tabernacle of the congregation, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak that which is good.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.
But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
