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And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon,
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
And Hilkiah, and they that the king had appointed, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college:) and they spake to her to that effect.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:
But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.
