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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,
And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the LORD spoken?
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.
So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
