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In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.
Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;
The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
And these are they that conspired against him; Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith a Moabitess.
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink.
And he set threescore and ten thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to set the people a work.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah unto the king, Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? let me go over, I pray thee, and take off his head.
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
