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But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:
Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before the LORD.
And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?
Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,
