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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:
Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying,
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake, that they should see his face no more. And they accompanied him unto the ship.
