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Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.
That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.
And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me.
Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.
And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.
