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And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them.
And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.
Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise were twenty and four thousand.
