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There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places which he had made.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.
Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
