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Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which 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.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou art the son of a strange woman.
And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,
And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Have we not power to eat and to drink?
For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
