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And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.
How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!
And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
