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Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to the death, and prayed unto the LORD: and he spake unto him, and he gave him a sign.
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,
And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.
After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.
A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
