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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand.
Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.
I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
Ish-bosheth Saul's son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,
