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They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape: the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed, as the LORD hath spoken.
Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.
For I also am a man set under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say unto one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time, and numbered all Israel.
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
