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When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:
But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
