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Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
