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And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Let those that fear thee turn unto me, and those that have known thy testimonies.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.
And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's companion:
