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And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them;
But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be: that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among them, and for my vesture they did cast lots. These things therefore the soldiers did.
But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?
I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
