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And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.
And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;
For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
