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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change:
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And of Jezebel also spake the LORD, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt?
And when the ass saw the angel of the LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.
The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
