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Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.
And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them.
And Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages:
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
Who raised up the righteous man from the east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? he gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
