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Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it: lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.
And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
