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And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
This is the first and great commandment.
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.
But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
