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Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem.
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
