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For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, LORD, art become their God.
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul.
And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.
And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee an house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.
And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters.
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.
I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant.
