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And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.
But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, round about the king, from the right corner of the temple to the left corner of the temple, along by the altar and the temple.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
