1 Chronicles 13

• 1. And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
• 2. And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
• 3. And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
• 4. And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
• 5. So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
• 6. And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
• 7. And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
• 8. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
• 9. And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
• 10. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
• 11. And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day.
• 12. And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
• 13. So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
• 14. And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had.

1 Chronicles 14

• 1. Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
• 2. And David perceived that the LORD had confirmed him king over Israel, for his kingdom was lifted up on high, because of his people Israel.
• 3. And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begat more sons and daughters.
• 4. Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
• 5. And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,
• 6. And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
• 7. And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.
• 8. And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard of it, and went out against them.
• 9. And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
• 10. And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? And wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.
• 11. So they came up to Baalperazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baalperazim.
• 12. And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
• 13. And the Philistines yet again spread themselves abroad in the valley.
• 14. Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
• 15. And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
• 16. David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
• 17. And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.

James 1

• 1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
• 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
• 3. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
• 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
• 5. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
• 6. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
• 7. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
• 8. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
• 9. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
• 10. But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
• 11. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
• 12. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
• 13. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
• 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
• 15. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
• 16. Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• 17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• 19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• 21. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• 22. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
• 23. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
• 24. For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
• 25. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
• 26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
• 27. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Amos 8

• 1. Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
• 2. And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
• 3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
• 4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• 5. Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
• 6. That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
• 7. The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
• 8. Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
• 9. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
• 10. And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• 11. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
• 12. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
• 13. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
• 14. They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

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