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Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.
They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.
I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
His foundation is in the holy mountains.
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.
