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Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
