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For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
What manner of saying is this that he said, Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come?
And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
