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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.
And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods.
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
And the LORD said, I have pardoned according to thy word:
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
