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And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD.
And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
