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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;
Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated:
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
And these are they that waited with their children. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman a singer, the son of Joel, the son of Shemuel,
Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
