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The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his clothes.
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.
For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.
Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)
My foot standeth in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, your King.
And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:
From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
