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Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondmen, saying,
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.
And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.
My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.
And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
