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Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,
Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
