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But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died there.
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?
And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.
The sixth to Bukkiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
