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When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
