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And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
And when she had brought them unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come lie with me, my sister.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.
Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?
The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
