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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
But a certain maid beheld him as he sat by the fire, and earnestly looked upon him, and said, This man was also with him.
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;
And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.
He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
