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And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; I pray thee, say me not nay. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother: for I will not say thee nay.
The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.
Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.
Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
