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But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose to yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom ye dwell upon their land: but I and my house will serve the Lord, for he is holy.

And Moses gave the land to the tribe of Ruben according to their families.

or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:

But my mercy I will not take from him, as I took it from those whom I removed from my presence.

If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

And he sends to David, saying, Bring him to me on the bed, that I may slay him.

And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands; and bowed himself upon him, and the flesh of the child grew warm.

And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave that is in Makeda.

And before the fat was burnt for a sweet savour, the servant of the priest would come, and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will by no means take of thee sodden flesh out of the caldron.

And David perceived that Saul went forth to seek David; and David was in the dry mountain in the New Ziph.

For I knew not that darkness would come upon me, and thick darkness has covered me before my face.

But I shall appear in righteousness before thy face: I shall be satisfied when thy glory appears.

They sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and my strength has been spent on the ground.

And I was as a man that hears not, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.

Men bless the people to whom this lot belongs, but blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.

And the business was hastened, and that at Susa: and the king and Aman began to drink; but the city was troubled.

the king of Lebna, the king of Odollam,

And princess in Issachar were with Debbora and Barac, thus she sent Barac on his feet in the valleys into the portions of Ruben; great pangs reached to the heart.

So David chose for himself the mortality: and they were the days of wheat-harvest; and the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from morning till noon, and the plague began among the people; and there died of the people from Dan even to Bersabee seventy thousand men.

And David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of a trumpet.

And the rest of the acts of Sellum, and his conspiracy wherein he was engaged, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

But if ye should not hearken to the voice of the Lord, and ye should resist the mouth of the Lord, then shall the hand of the Lord be upon you and upon your king.

Let their sword enter into their own heart, and their bows be broken.

And Ebear, and Elisue, and Naphec, and Jephies.

Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast ye for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day: and I also and my maidens will fast; and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

and said to him, Thus says Jephthae, Israel took not the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;

If spears should come against him, men will effect nothing, either with the spear or the breast-plate.

And Samuel slept till morning, and rose early in the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord; and Samuel feared to tell Heli the vision.

they have hands, but they cannot handle; they have feet, but they cannot walk: they cannot speak through their throat.

For this is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide for evermore.

Such a one as would not reverence the face of an honourable man, neither knows how to give honour to the great, so as that their persons should be respected.

Let one drive him from light into darkness.

They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.

The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their food in due season.

and the spoilers came and took them for a prey, and slew the servants with the sword; and I having escaped alone am come to tell thee.

And Jebosthe sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Selle.

and reported to him according to the laws how it was proper to do to queen Astin, because she had not done the things commanded of the king by the chamberlains.

And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.

As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.

And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows.

among whomsoever they went; and the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord spoke, and as the Lord sware to them; and he greatly afflicted them.

As the Lord commanded his servant Moses, even so Moses commanded Joshua; and so Joshua did, he transgressed no precept of all that Moses commanded him.

Behold, he has travailed with unrighteousness, he has conceived trouble, and brought forth iniquity.

Now Heli was ninety years old, and his eyes were fixed, and he saw not.

And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer women than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon us which the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he shall have destroyed you from off this good land, which the Lord has given you,

And Joatham fled, and ran away, and went as far as Baeer, and dwelt there out of the way of his brother Abimelech.

For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they themselves went to a distance from the city.

Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers.

And the Levites brought up the ark of the Lord, and the coffer with it, and the golden articles upon it, and placed them on the great stone, and the men of Baethsamys offered whole-burnt-offerings and meat offerings on that day to the Lord.

But I hoped in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.

And David called one of his young men, and said, Go and fall upon him: and he smote him, and he died.

And the king of Israel said to Elisaie, when he saw them, Shall I not verily smite them, my father?

And Gedeon said to them, I will make a request of you, and do ye give me every man an earring out of his spoils: for they had golden earrings, for they were Ismaelites.

And the men were very good to us; they did not hinder us, neither did they demand from us any thing all the days that we were with them.

And Saul and Jonathan his son, and the people that were found with them, halted in Gabaa, of Benjamin; and they wept: and the Philistines had encamped in Machmas.

And he gave them their request, and sent fullness into their souls.

And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, and evil spirit from the Lord torments thee.

and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and its suburbs;

Let them be before the Lord continually; and let their memorial be blotted out from the earth.

For he has broken down the houses of many mighty men: and he has plundered an habitation, though he built it not.

And do thou this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.

And Saul said, I have brought them out of Amalec, that which the people preserved, even the best of the sheep, and of the cattle, that it might be sacrificed to the Lord thy God, and the rest have I utterly destroyed.

And the rest of the acts of Joas, even all that he did in his might, how he warred with Amessias king of Juda, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear now to me by God, that thou wilt not kill me, and that thou wilt not deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down upon this troop.

Also they took no account of the men into whose hands they gave the money to give to the workmen, for they acted faithfully.

So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before thee, O Lord my helper, and my redeemer.

And Ju rode and advanced, and came down to Jezrael; for Joram king of Israel was getting healed in Jezrael of the arrow-wounds wherewith the Syrians had wounded him in Rammath in the war with Azael king of Syria; for he was strong and a mighty man: and Ochozias king of Juda was come down to see Joram.

And David departed and returned from Saul, to feed his fathers sheep in Bethleem;

And the host fled as far as Bethseed Tagaragatha Abel-meula to Tabath; and the men of Israel from Nephthali, and from Aser, and from all Manasse, came to help, and followed after Madiam.

Mine eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare.

And they came to the sons of Ruben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse into the land of Galaad; and they spoke to them, saying,

And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar, and slew three hundred men, but plundered no property.

And Joshua said to them, If thou be a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for thyself, If mount Ephraim be too little for thee.

And there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him.

For I shall not live for ever, that I should patiently endure: depart from me, for my life is vain.

And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; and the name of the city was Ulamais before.

Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barac: and Sisara descended from off his chariot, and fled on his feet.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

And ten young men that bore Joab's armour compassed Abessalom, and smote him and slew him.

And there arose and passed over by number twelve of the children of Benjamin, belonging to Jebosthe the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.

and if the poor did not bless me, and their shoulders were not warmed with the fleece of my lambs;

And he will take the tithe of your seeds and your vineyards, and give it to his eunuchs, and to his servants.

If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

And he bowed the heart of all the men of Juda as that of one man; and they sent to the king, saying, Return thou, and all thy servants.

And Samuel said, Why hast thou troubled me, that I should come up? And Saul said, I am greatly distressed, and the Philistines war against me, and God has departed from me, and no longer hearkens to me either by the hand of the prophets or by dreams: and now I have called thee to tell me what I shall do.

And the children of Israel cried to the Lord; and he raised up to them a saviour, Aod the son of Gera a son of Jemeni, a man who used both hands alike: and the children of Israel sent gifts by his hand to Eglom king of Moab.

And the master of the house came out to them, and said, Nay, brethren, do not ye wrong, I pray you, after this man has come into my house; do not ye this folly.

I will surely bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

And Chusi the Arachite said to Sadoc and Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus Achitophel counselled Abessalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

And now after whom dost thou come forth, O king of Israel? After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, and after a flea?

And Melchol the daughter of Saul loved David; and it was told Saul, and the thing was pleasing in his eyes.

And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.

And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

O Lord, thou shalt open my lips; and my mouth shall declare thy praise.

To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.