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In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
