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Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.
And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the LORD.
The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
