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And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.
And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.
And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;)
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
