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And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen also for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meat offering; I give it all.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
