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And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.
And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in the fryingpan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.
For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.
