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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.
And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.
So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;
And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.
The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.
And he spake this parable unto them, saying,
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
