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Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
And the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.
And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
