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Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers.
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.
And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.
Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make now unto you.
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
And Adonijah feared because of Solomon, and arose, and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
And Job spake, and said,
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?
And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.
