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Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.
For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
