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And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire.
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
The families of the Gershonites shall pitch behind the tabernacle westward.
And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
