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And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
I have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.
They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.
And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
