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Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,
And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.
He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
