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Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, with all them whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in thy skirts.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Son of man, set thy face against the Ammonites, and prophesy against them;
To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
