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And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more unto the king?
Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.
(Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)
And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary, and refreshed themselves there.
When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
