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And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth-lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him.
But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
