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So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Now he hath not directed his words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
