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Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife.
And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.
Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
