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The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:
And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.
And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.
Then let them take a young bullock with his meat offering, even fine flour mingled with oil, and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin offering.
Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
