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Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD.
Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver's beam.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.
And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
And it came to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said, O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.
Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.
And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
