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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?
And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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.
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
