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Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;
Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the LORD.
Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred.
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at the end thereof they might stand before the king.
And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
