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In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.
And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis;
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man.
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:
