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Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
