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Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them.
And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
The LORD standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.
