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And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
