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When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.
So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.
What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,
If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.
They continue this day according to thine ordinances: for all are thy servants.
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
