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Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, which are come from Babylon, and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;
And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:
Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
