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And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?
And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.
But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.
