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But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered?
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the LORD.
The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
