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The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
And into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you, eat such things as are set before you:
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
And the word of the LORD of hosts came unto me, saying,
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the LORD commanded to make.
Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called:
