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Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face.
And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.
But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him.
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the LORD, that shall stand.
And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
