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But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
For thou, O my God, hast told thy servant that thou wilt build him an house: therefore thy servant hath found in his heart to pray before thee.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
The children of Pashur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.
Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have not a shepherd: and the LORD said, These have no master: let them return every man to his house in peace.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
