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Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:
So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
And Joram said, Make ready. And his chariot was made ready. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth:
And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.
When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.
Pardon, I beseech thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy mercy, and as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.
Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
