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Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Then came the word of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,
And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the LORD hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
