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If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
These are the families of Naphtali according to their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and four hundred.
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
