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And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
The children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations.
So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego.
