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And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:
This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.
After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
