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Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.
And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
