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And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
So will I sing praise unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
And let our's also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.
But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
