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I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
And Balaam said unto the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
