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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:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
