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It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
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.
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.
So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
