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And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name of the LORD; praise him, O ye servants of the LORD.
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.
Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant!
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
