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Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:
They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.
And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
