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And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.
And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
