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He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,
And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah,
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages, trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
