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Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.
And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.
And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought: for by their occupation they were tentmakers.
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
And thou, son of man, take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard: then take thee balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
And said, I beseech thee, O LORD God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.
