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In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.
These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.
Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
