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And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.
That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
