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And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in thy mouth is truth.
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
And Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
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.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.
