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And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:
There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD.
