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All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the LORD.
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned home again.
Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
