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They have a mouth, but they cannot speak; they have eyes, but they cannot see:

And Sellum the son of Jabis reigned: and in the thirty and ninth year of Azarias king of Juda began Sellum to reign a full month in Samaria.

that my glory may sing praise to thee, and I may not be pierced with sorrow. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

And I have told him that I will be avenged on his house perpetually for the iniquities of his sons, because his sons spoke evil against God, and he did not admonish them.

And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthae, Because Israel took my land when he went up out of Egypt, from Arnon to Jaboc, and to Jordan: now then return them peaceably and I will depart.

And they provoked the Lord, and forsook him, and served Baal and the Astartes.

And David took again wives and concubines out of Jerusalem, after he came from Chebron: and David had still more sons and daughters born to him.

Where then is yet my hope? or where shall I see my good?

And David arose, and the men with him, in number about four hundred, and they went forth from Keila, and went whithersoever they could go: and it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keila, and he forbore to come.

And there were with him bearing the ark seven bands, and for a sacrifice a calf and lambs.

While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day.

Give us help from tribulation: for vain is the help of man.

and they sat down beside him seven days and seven nights, and no one of them spoke; for they saw that his affliction was dreadful and very great.

And the children of Israel walked in all the sin of Jeroboam which he committed; they departed not from it,

And Saul said, No man shall die this day, for to-day the Lord has wrought deliverance in Israel.

The mountains of the wilderness shall be enriched; and the hills shall gird themselves with joy.

The Lord looks out of heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.

And Gad went in to David, and told him, and said to him, Choose one of these things to befall thee, whether there shall come upon thee for three years famine in thy land; or that thou shouldest flee three months before thine enemies, and they should pursue thee; or that there should be for three days mortality in thy land. Now then decide, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

to lay hold of the extremities of the earth, to cast out the ungodly out of it?

the king of Dabir, the king of Gader:

They surrounded me with spears, aiming at my reins: without sparing me they poured out my gall upon the ground.

And he gave you a land on which ye did not labour, and cities which ye did not build, and ye were settled in them; and ye eat of vineyards and oliveyards which ye did not plant.

And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

He shall build for me a house to my name, and I will set up his throne even for ever.

Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,

And Aman related the events that had befallen him to Zosara his wife, and to his friends: and his friends and his wife said to him, If Mardochaeus be of the race of the Jews, and thou hast begun to be humbled before him, thou wilt assuredly fall, and thou wilt not be able to withstand him, for the living God is with him.

But the children of Israel destroyed not the Gesirite and the Machatite and the Chananite; and the king of the Gesiri and the Machatite dwelt among the children of Israel until this day.

And the priest's claim from every one of the people that sacrificed was this: the servant of the priest came when the flesh was in seething, and a flesh-hook of three teeth was in his hand.

Their garners are full, and bursting with one kind of store after another; their sheep are prolific, multiplying in their streets.

For if thou shalt refuse to hearken on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knows, if thou hast been made queen for this very occasion?

For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.

And after him Abdon the son of Ellel, the Pharathonite, judged Israel.

And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. [And the following is the copy of the letter; The great king Artaxerxes writes thus to the rulers and inferior governors of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him. Ruling over many nations and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was minded (not elated by the confidence of power, but ever conducting myself with great moderation and gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quiet and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. But when I had enquired of my counsellors how this should be brought to pass. Aman, who excels in soundness of judgment among us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and had obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their law to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the king, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation alone of all others is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we signified to you in the letter written by Aman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to destroy them all utterly with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.]

And three out of the thirty went down, and came to Cason to David, to the cave of Odollam; and there was an army of the Philistines, and they encamped in the valley of Raphain.

For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?

And David made himself a name: and when he returned he smote Idumea in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand.

O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: attend to my tears: be not silent, for I am a sojourner in the land, and a stranger, as all my fathers were.

And Elisaie went into the house, and, behold, the dead child was laid upon his bed.

I will go into thine house with whole-burnt-offerings; I will pay thee my vows,

For the sin of their mouth, and the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

And now behold the king whom ye have chosen; and behold, the Lord has set a king over you.

And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

and that takes away the spirits of princes; to him that is terrible among the kings of the earth.

His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoe, Of all things concerning which I spoke to the woman, she shall beware.

And Joab the son of Saruia, and the servants of David, went forth from Chebron, and met them at the fountain of Gabaon, at the same place: and these sat down by the fountain on this side, and those by the fountain on that side.

And Memphibosthe dwelt in Jerusalem, for he continually ate at the table of the king; and he was lame in both his feet.

For oh that thou hadst kept me in the grave, and hadst hidden me until thy wrath should cease, and thou shouldest set me a time in which thou wouldest remember me!

And she was speaking in her heart, and her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: and Heli accounted her a drunken woman.

And Gothoniel the younger son of Kenez the brother of Chaleb took it; and Chaleb gave him his daughter Ascha to wife.

But as when terror falls upon men, with dread and a sound in the night,

But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting: and my prayer shall return to my own bosom.

And Joab and his people with him advanced to battle against Syria, and they fled from before him.

Have I a book or a scribe my me, that I may stand and put man to silence?

And if ye cannot tell it me, ye shall give me thirty napkins and thirty changes of apparel: and they said to him, Propound thy riddle, and we will hear it.

And they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people.

And Jonathan went up on his hands and feet, and his armour-bearer with him; and they looked on the face of Jonathan, and he smote them, and his armour-bearer did smite them after him.

And Gedeon said to him, Be gracious with me, my Lord: but if the Lord is with us, why have these evils found us? and where are all his miracles, which our fathers have related to us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt? and now he has cast us out, and given us into the hand of Madiam.

And Booz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her; and the Lord gave her conception, and she bore a son.

And David called him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk: and he went out in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.

And Joshua blessed him, and gave Chebron to Chaleb the son of Jephone the son of Kenez for an inheritance.

And Joas slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat upon his throne, and he was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

And thence it shall come round in the opposite direction eastward to Gebere to the city of Catasem, and shall go on to Remmonaa Matharaoza.

Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger,

The Lord also thundered from heaven, and the Highest uttered his voice.

Rejoice and be glad for the children of the just: for they shall be gathered together, and shall bless the Lord of the just.

but I pray and beseech thee, release me, Lord, release me, and destroy me not with my transgressions; keep not evils for me in anger for ever, nor condemn me to the lowest parts of the earth: because thou art God, the God of the repenting; and in me thou wilt shew all thy benevolence, for that me unworthy thou wilt save, according to thy great mercy:

For that which the Lord hath given us to live with doth suffice us.

And he said unto them, Beware of all unrighteousness; and he gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour.

Sand, and salt, and a mass of iron, is easier to bear, than a man without understanding.

I learned diligently, and do communicate her liberally: I do not hide her riches.

The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fatten his bones.

So they came to Holofernes' tent, and said to him that had the charge of all his things, Waken now our lord: for the slaves have been bold to come down against us to battle, that they may be utterly destroyed.

Use not to make any manner of lie: for the custom thereof is not good.

The discourse of fools is irksome, and their sport is the wantonness of sin.

Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit's.

The Lord hateth all abomination; and they that fear God love it not.

A backbiting tongue hath cast out virtuous women, and deprived them of their labours.

Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends.

Then he marched in battle array with his power against king Arphaxad in the seventeenth year, and he prevailed in his battle: for he overthrew all the power of Arphaxad, and all his horsemen, and all his chariots,

Honour and shame is in talk: and the tongue of man is his fall.

It shall fight for thee against thine enemies better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

So God heard their prayers, and looked upon their afflictions: for the people fasted many days in all Judea and Jerusalem before the sanctuary of the Lord Almighty.

He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever she entereth, the Lord will bless.

She preventeth them that desire her, in making herself first known unto them.

So one that goeth to a sinner, and is defiled with him in his sins, who will pity?

Chastise thy son, and hold him to labour, lest his lewd behaviour be an offence unto thee.

And let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it.

But if there be no iniquity in their nation, let my lord now pass by, lest their Lord defend them, and their God be for them, and we become a reproach before all the world.

A wise man by his words maketh him beloved: but the graces of fools shall be poured out.

He will not accept any person against a poor man, but will hear the prayer of the oppressed.

And if his understanding fail, have patience with him; and despise him not when thou art in thy full strength.

There is a time when in their hands there is good success.

He hath mercy on them that receive discipline, and that diligently seek after his judgments.

Woe unto him that is fainthearted! for he believeth not; therefore shall he not be defended.

And they called together all the ancients of the city, and all their youth ran together, and their women, to the assembly, and they set Achior in the midst of all their people. Then Ozias asked him of that which was done.

For it is a token of his great goodness, when wicked doers are not suffered any long time, but forthwith punished.

The sinner shall not escape with his spoils: and the patience of the godly shall not be frustrate.

Hearken unto me, ye holy children, and bud forth as a rose growing by the brook of the field: