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And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.
Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.
The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.
This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
