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Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
The word of the LORD also came unto me, saying,
The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.
And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
