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And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.
Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,
And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
