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What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.
And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people is hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.
