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for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and as to the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

Then every ill-disposed and bad man of the soldiers who had gone with David, answered and said, Because they did not pursue together with us, we will not give them of the spoils which we have recovered, only let each one lead away with him his wife and his children, and let them return.

And Gedeon saw that he was an angel of the Lord; and Gedeon said, Ah, ah, Lord my God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

to chastise his rulers at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom.

And Saul was very angry, and went himself also to Armathaim, and he comes as far as the well of the threshing floor that is in Sephi; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And they said, Behold, in Navath in Rama.

And Obed begot Jessae; and Jessae begot David.

But God shall crust the heads of his enemies; the hairy crown of them that go on in their trespasses.

For the Lord remembered us in our low estate; for his mercy endures for ever:

And Balaam the son of Baeor the prophet they slew in the battle.

From the blood of the slain, and from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan returned not empty; and the sword of Saul turned not back empty.

And Noemin said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is well, daughter, that thou wentest out with his damsels; thus they shall not meet thee in another field.

But if not, who is he that says I speak falsely, and will make my words of no account?

that he may magnify thee, O my Lord; for there is no one like thee, and there is no God, but thou among all of whom we have heard with our ears.

and would be very joyful if they should gain it?

In all these events that befell him Job sinned not at all before the Lord, and did not impute folly to God.

and Icam, and Regma, and Aruel,

These four were born descendants of the giants in Geth, the family of Rapha; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

Because, I kept the ways of the Lord, and did not wickedly depart from my God.

And I will again uncover myself thus, and I will be vile in thine eyes, and with the maid-servants by whom thou saidst that I was not had in honour.

Save me from the lion's mouth; and regard my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns.

And, behold, the servants of David and Joab arrived from their expedition, and they brought much spoil with them: and Abenner was not with David in Chebron, because he had sent him away, and he had departed in peace.

They gave me also gall for my food, and made me drink vinegar for my thirst.

Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we have hoped in thee.

wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.

So Noemin and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, returned from the country of Moab; and they came to Bethleem in the beginning of barley harvest.

And it was reported to David, saying, Achitophel also is among the conspirators with Abessalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray thee, the counsel of Achitophel.

And the Philistines came up yet again, and assembled in the valley of Giants.

And they took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent into the camp; and these things were hidden in his tent, and the silver under them.

And the men of Israel strengthened themselves, and again engaged in battle in the place where they had engaged on the first day.

I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, because of thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.

And there went out some from the camp of the Philistines to the place beyond Machmas.

Thou hast seen it, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, withdraw not thyself from me.

And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them to the inn, and set them there a place among the chief of those that were called, about seventy men.

He built Aeloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.

and if my heart was secretly deceived, and if I have laid my hand upon my mouth and kissed it:

And Abessai the son of Saruia answered and said, Shall not Semei therefore be put to death, because he cursed the Lord's anointed?

They were scattered at the anger of his countenance, and his heart drew nigh them. His words were smoother than oil, yet are they darts.

And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken to their voice, and appoint them a king. And Samuel said to the men of Israel, Let each man depart to his city.

But hast thou gone to the treasures of snow? and hast thou seen the treasures of hail?

And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they Were.

And David said to Abiathar, I knew it in that day, that Doec the Syrian would surely tell Saul: I am guilty of the death of the house of thy father.

If I should expressly say to the lad, The arrow is here, and on this side of thee, take it; then come, for it is well with thee, and there is no reason for fear, as the Lord lives: but if I should say thus to the young man, The arrow is on that side of thee, and beyond; go, for the Lord hath sent thee away.

There is nothing upon the earth like to him, formed to be sported with by my angels.

For the Lord will not cast off his people for his great name's sake, because the Lord graciously took you to himself for a people.

And Gaal the son of Jobel said, Who is Abimelech, and who is the son of Sychem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerobaal, and is not Zebul his steward, his servant with the son of Emmor the father of Sychem? and why should we serve him?

And Joab fell on his face to the ground, and did obeisance, and blessed the king: and Joab said, To-day thy servant knows that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, for my lord the king has performed the request of his servant.

Go, I pray you, and make preparations yet, and notice his place where his foot shall be, quickly, in that place which ye spoke of, lest by any means he should deal craftily.

God even God is the Lord, and God even God himself knows, and Israel he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not deliver us this day.

Blessed be the Lord: for he has magnified his mercy in a fortified city.

Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.

These things did Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

Deliver me, for I am poor and needy; and my heart is troubled within me.

And Manaem slept with his fathers; and Phakesias his son reigned in his stead.

And, behold, Barac was pursuing Sisara: and Jael went out to meet him, and he said to him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest: and he went in to her; and, behold, Sisara was fallen dead, and the pin was in his temple.

And they said, The glory of Israel is departed, forasmuch as the ark of the Lord is taken.

Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, and let them wander as a drunken man.

And they brought out the five kings out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam.

to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

For they that bless him shall inherit the earth; and they that curse him shall be utterly destroyed.

The Lord add blessings to you and to your children.

Arise, O God, plead thy cause: remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.

And David rose up and all the people with him, and they passed over Jordan till the morning light; there was not one missing who did not pass over Jordan.

and Baethoron and its suburbs: four cities:

For all his judgments were before me, and his ordinances departed not from me.

For the worthless die, but the righteous are laughed to scorn.

I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.

and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.

But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

And Orna said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer to the Lord that which is good in his eyes: behold, here are oxen for a whole-burnt-offering, and the wheels and furniture of the oxen for wood.

And Heli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.

to prove Israel with them, whether they would keep the way of the Lord, to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or no.

And the boundaries shall border upon Gaethbor, and upon Salim westward, and Baethsamys; and the extremity of his bounds shall be Jordan.

Bless the Lord, all his works, in every place of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.

And he shall establish to thee again a habitation of righteousness and there shall be light upon thy paths.

And Samuel asked yet again of the Lord, Will the man come hither? and the Lord said, Behold, he is hid among the stuff.

And Manoe said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

And Abessalom spoke not to Amnon, good or bad, because Abessalom hated Amnon, on account of his humbling his sister Themar.

Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there is no deliverer.

and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, in order that men might be feared in their own houses.

Now then swear to me by the Lord, that thou wilt not destroy my seed after me, that thou wilt not blot out my name from the house of my father.

to deliver me from enemies, or to rescue me from the hand of the mighty ones?

And he quite destroys the ungodly, for they are seen before him.

And David arose, and went, he and his men, and smote among the Philistines a hundred men: and he brought their foreskins, and he becomes the king's son-in-law, and Saul gives him Melchol his daughter to wife.

So God do to David and more also, if I leave one male of all that belong to Nabal until the morning.

There was not any one left of the Enakim by the children of Israel, only there was left of them in Gaza, and in Gath, and in Aseldo.

When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hasted

and Baethabara, and Sara, and Besana,

Deliver Israel, O God, out of all his afflictions.

And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

And Saul sent to Jessae, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me, for he has found grace in my eyes.

The sun arises, and they shall be gathered together, and shall lie down in their dens.

from Arnon and to Jaboc, and from the wilderness to Jordan.

And David said, While the child yet lived, I fasted and wept; for I said, Who knows if the Lord will pity me, and the child live?

And all the Israelites who were hidden in mount Ephraim heard also that the Philistines fled; and they also gather themselves after them to battle: and the Lord saved Israel in that day; and the war passed through Bamoth; and all the people with Saul were about ten thousand men.