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I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
Blessed be the LORD: for he hath shewed me his marvellous kindness in a strong city.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the LORD, and made vows.
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
