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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
Then the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel.
And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.
And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.
And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
