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The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
