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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
