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There is that buyeth much for a little, and repayeth it sevenfold.

He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.

And cried to the God of Israel all with one consent earnestly, that he would not give their children for a prey, and their wives for a spoil, and the cities of their inheritance to destruction, and the sanctuary to profanation and reproach, and for the nations to rejoice at.

Shut up alms in thy storehouses: and it shall deliver thee from all affliction.

If thou hast understanding, answer thy neighbour; if not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very angry with all this country, and sware by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be avenged upon all those coasts of Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and all Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.

If thou be brought low, he will be against thee, and will hide himself from thy face.

A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation: strong cities hath it pulled down, and overthrown the houses of great men.

And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law,

If thou be among the indiscreet, observe the time; but be continually among men of understanding.

Devise not a lie against thy brother; neither do the like to thy friend.

She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.

Insomuch that the king, and they that were with him, marvelled at the young man's courage, for that he nothing regarded the pains.

Cursed are all they which hate thee, and blessed shall all be which love thee for ever.

Give me any plague, but the plague of the heart: and any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman:

Lend not unto him that is mightier than thyself; for if thou lendest him, count it but lost.

The beginning of pride is when one departeth from God, and his heart is turned away from his Maker.

Now therefore, when thou didst pray, and Sara thy daughter in law, I did bring the remembrance of your prayers before the Holy One: and when thou didst bury the dead, I was with thee likewise.

And I took root in an honourable people, even in the portion of the Lord's inheritance.

Again, there is another that is slow, and hath need of help, wanting ability, and full of poverty; yet the eye of the Lord looked upon him for good, and set him up from his low estate,

There is a word that is clothed about with death: God grant that it be not found in the heritage of Jacob; for all such things shall be far from the godly, and they shall not wallow in their sins.

Say not thou, He hath caused me to err: for he hath no need of the sinful man.

The mercy of man is toward his neighbour; but the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh: he reproveth, and nurtureth, and teacheth and bringeth again, as a shepherd his flock.

What is heavier than lead? and what is the name thereof, but a fool?

Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory, and their ears heard his glorious voice.

Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent, or any such as come nigh wild beasts?

Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

But cruelly he will lay up thy words, and will not spare to do thee hurt, and to put thee in prison.

Therefore let us lie in wait for the righteous; because he is not for our turn, and he is clean contrary to our doings: he upbraideth us with our offending the law, and objecteth to our infamy the transgressings of our education.

And the Lord will give us strength, and lighten our eyes, and we shall live under the shadow of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon, and under the shadow of Balthasar his son, and we shall serve them many days, and find favour in their sight.

And many desired her, but none knew her all the days of her life, after that Manasses her husband was dead, and was gathered to his people.

Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked:

And Dalida took new ropes, and bound him with them, and the liers in wait came out of the chamber, and she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Sampson: and he broke them off his arms like a thread.

And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Achitob. And he said, Lo! I am here, speak, my lord.

For thy servant keeps to them: in the keeping of them there is great reward.

I became a reproach among all mine enemies, but exceedingly so to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that saw me without fled from me.

And the Lord said, It will be shut up.

And ye saw that Naas king of the children of Ammon came against you, and ye said, Nay, none but a king shall reign over us; whereas the Lord our God is our king.

And behold, the skirt of thy mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not slay thee: know then and see to-day, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against thee, yet thou layest snares for my soul to take it.

At the brightness before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

And the people said to Samuel, Who has said that Saul shall not reign over us? Give up the men, and we will put them to death.

So the servants of David turned back, and returned, and came and reported to David according to these words.

I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember thy wonders from the beginning.

They laid wait for me as a lion ready for prey, and like a lion's whelp dwelling in secret places.

They rewarded me evil for good, and bereavement to my soul.

And one of them answered and said, And who is his father? and therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

So David took the spear, and the pitcher of water from his bolster, and they went home: and there was no one that saw, and no one that knew, and there was no one that awoke, all being asleep, for a stupor from the Lord had fallen upon them.

So David had the full confidence of Anchus, who said, He is thoroughly disgraced among his people in Israel and he shall be my servant for ever.

And the virgins answered them, and they say to them, He is: behold, he is before you: now he is coming to the city, because of the day, for to-day there is a sacrifice for the people in Bama.

Let not thy mind willingly turn thee aside from the petition of the feeble that are in distress.

And the woman saw Samuel, and cried out with a loud voice: and the woman said to Saul, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of sinners move me.

and his manner shall be to make them to himself captains of hundreds and captains of thousands; and to reap his harvest, and gather his vintage, and prepare his instruments of war, and the implements of his chariots.

And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and he ate, and his spirit was restored in him; for he had not eaten bread, and had not drunk water three days and three nights.

And Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Massephath and the old city; and he called the name of it Abenezer, stone of the helper; and he said, Hitherto has the Lord helped us.

young men and virgins, old men with youths:

and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

And they rose up, even every man of might, and marched all night, and took the body of Saul and the body of Jonathan his son from the wall of Baethsam; and they bring them to Jabis, and burn them there.

And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merob, I will give her to thee to Wife, only be thou to me a mighty man and ght the wars of the Lord. And Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines shall be upon him.

And they lamented, and wept, and fasted till evening, for Saul and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Juda, and for the house of Israel, because they were smitten with the sword.

And the cows went straight on the way to the way of Baethsamys, they went along one track; and laboured, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after it as far as the coasts of Baethsamys.

For there was a very great confusion in all the city, when the ark of the God of Israel entered there; and those, who lived and died not were smitten with emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And Abenner sent messengers to David to Thaelam where he was, immediately, saying, Make thy covenant with me, and, behold, my hand is with thee to bring back to thee all the house of Israel.

And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the battle, and he came to Selom on that day: and his clothes were rent, and earth was upon his head.

The sinner will watch for the righteous, and gnash his teeth upon him.

And David commanded his young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet; and they hung them up at the fountain in Chebron: and they buried the head of Jebosthe in the tomb of Abenezer the son of Ner.

In that day I will raise up against Heli all things that I have said against his house; I will begin, and I will make an end.

And David knew that the Lord had prepared him to be king over Israel, and that his kingdom was exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

to make known to the sons of men thy power, and the glorious majesty of thy kingdom.

And it was reported to king David, saying, The Lord has blessed the house of Abeddara, and all that he has, because of the ark of the Lord. And David went, and brought up the Ark of the Lord from the house of Abeddara to the city of David with gladness.

My friends and my neighbours drew near before me, and stood still; and my nearest of kin stood afar off.

My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.

And it shall come to pass when thy days shall have been fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, even thine own issue, and I will establish his kingdom.

whose children are as plants, strengthened in their youth: their daughters are beautiful, sumptuously adorned after the similitude of a temple.

And the sons of Heli the priest were evil sons, not knowing the Lord.

out of Idumea, and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalec, and from the spoils of Adraazar son of Raab king of Suba.

Thou chastenest man with rebukes for iniquity, and thou makest his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

And in thy mercy thou wilt destroy mine enemies, and wilt destroy all those that afflict my soul; for I am thy servant.

And Memphibosthe had a little son, and his name was Micha: and all the household of Siba were servants to Memphibosthe.

And it came to pass, while she was long praying before the Lord, that Heli the priest marked her mouth.

The flesh also of his body is joined together: if one pours violence upon him, he shall not be moved.

Be thou courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the sake of the cities of our God, and the Lord shall do that which is good in his eyes.

And let thy house be as the house of Phares, whom Thamar bore to Juda, of the seed which the Lord shall give thee of this handmaid.

And David said to Urias, Remain here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee go. So Urias remained in Jerusalem that day and the day following.

And now I am truly akin to thee; nevertheless there is a kinsman nearer than I.

For thou didst it secretly, but I will do this thing in the sight of all Israel, and before the sun.

But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually.

The Lord recompense thy work; may a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, to whom thou hast come to trust under his wings.

And she said to him, Nay, my brother, do not humble me, for it ought not to be so done in Israel; do not this folly.

A talkative man shall not prosper on the earth: evils shall hunt the unrighteous man to destruction.

For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light be to thee.

Turn now, my daughters, for I am too old to be married: for I said, Suppose I were married, and should bear sons;

And the woman said, Let now thy servant speak a word to my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

Does not he that dwells in the high places observe? and has he not brought down the proud?

By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me.

And Abessalom sent to Achitophel the Theconite, the counsellor of David, from his city, from Gola, where he was sacrificing: and there was a strong conspiracy; and the people with Abessalom were increasingly numerous.

Wherefore art thou very sad, O my soul? and wherefore dost thou trouble me? hope in God; for I will give thanks to him; he is the health of my countenance, and my God.

To him who divided the Red Sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever:

And the tribes of Israel sent men through the whole tribe of Benjamin, saying, What is this wickedness that has been wrought among you?