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For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife's name was Maachah:
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.
All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.
Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
