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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
At that time when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
When he had caused the tribe of Benjamin to come near by their families, the family of Matri was taken, and Saul the son of Kish was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found.
For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed blood, and from avenging thyself with thine own hand, now let thine enemies, and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
