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I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
And the LORD spake unto Gad, David's seer, saying,
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
