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And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
And Rephah was his son, also Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not; speak thou.
And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be our's.
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD above all that were before him.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.
For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
