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So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.
It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.
If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: cut them off in thy truth.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
For it came to pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him.
Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
