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And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?
Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my master's son.
And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.
Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
