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Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
Are the consolations of God small with thee? is there any secret thing with thee?
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.
Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
