Simeon and Levi, brothers, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.

Cursed be their wrath, for it was willful, and their anger, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

And Joshua said to Achan, Why have you destroyed us? The Lord destroy you this day! And all Israel stoned him with stones.

And Elijah said, I do not pervert Israel; but it is you and your father's house, in that you forsake the Lord your God, and you have gone after the Baals.

And the son of Carmi [was] Achar the troubler of Israel, who was disobedient in the accursed thing.

A merciful man does good to his own soul, but the merciless destroys his own body.

He that deals not graciously with his own house shall inherit the wind, and the fool shall be servant to the wise man.

A receiver of bribes destroys himself, but he that hates the receiving of bribes is safe. [ 15:27A] By alms and by faithful dealings sins are purged away, but by the fear of the Lord everyone departs from evil.

And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made our scent abominable before Pharaoh, and before his servants, to put a sword into his hands to kill us.

And all Israel heard it said, Saul has smitten Nasib the Philistine; now Israel had been put to shame before the Philistines, and the children of Israel went up after Saul in Gilgal.

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

And the children of Ammon saw that the people of David were ashamed, and Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves chariots and horsemen out of Syria of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria Maacah, and from Zobah.

the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,

It is not because you are more numerous than all [other] nations that the Lord has preferred you, and the Lord has chosen you: for you are fewer in number than all [other] nations.

Remember His wonderful works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth;

when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

It shall come to pass then, that when the Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall kill me, but they shall keep you alive.

And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your seed.

And your seed shall be as the sand of the earth; and it shall spread abroad to the sea, and the south, and the north, and to the east; and in you and in your seed shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears of it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer in your hand, and you shall say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.

And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered [for death] into the hands of Saul; and there is nothing better for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.

who, contrary to hope, on hope believed, so that he should become a father of many nations, according to what was spoken, "So shall your descendants be."

he did not waver at the promise of God in unbelief, but was empowered by faith, giving glory to God,