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And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.
But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness.
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
