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And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.
The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.
And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.
Am I now come up without the LORD against this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,
Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.
And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
