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For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
