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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En-gedi.
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
These are the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.
Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
The nineteenth to Mallothi, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth-pisgah eastward.
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Beth-aven.
And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.
