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Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
And Saul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the princes sat there, even Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the princes.
Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.
