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Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
