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Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.
For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
And the sons of Jonathan; Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites:
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.
And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
