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So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto whom ye sent me to present your supplication before him;
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the LORD.
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
