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Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
