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Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders,
Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord's house silver or gold?
And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:
