• My father imposed heavy demands on you I will make them even heavier

    From Ava Smith@zmgfroyg_qvjbvskq.bhxzgagy@fsxrotrba.ally to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 21:40:15 2026
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    Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,
    even as ye were led. They cried, but there was none to save them:
    even unto the LORD, but he answered them not. Therefore Michal the
    daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death. O give
    thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.

    It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne
    is established by righteousness. Honour widows that are widows
    indeed. And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass,
    which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and
    harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. Then king
    Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of
    Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But I will punish you
    according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will
    kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things
    round about it. For this cause God gave them up unto vile
    affections: for even their women did change the natural use into
    that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the
    natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another;
    men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in
    themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

    And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
    olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of
    the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the
    branches. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and
    he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,
    that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Now
    it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened
    not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's
    matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew. But the
    soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not
    go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria
    even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much
    spoil. And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the
    king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of And it
    came to pass after forty years, that Absalom said unto the king, I
    pray thee, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed unto the
    LORD, in For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in
    Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem,
    then I will serve the LORD. And mine eye shall not spare, neither
    will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and
    thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know
    that I am the LORD that smiteth. But his sons shall be stirred up,
    and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall
    certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he
    return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress. The valley gate
    repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and
    set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof,
    and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate. The children
    of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.

    Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of
    the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us,
    when we obey the voice of the LORD our God. And the Syrians had gone
    out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of
    Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife. And no man
    shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all
    the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
    The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the
    masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. Let their
    habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. He that
    hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom,
    which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the
    bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled. And the
    first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a
    noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the
    beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. I eat or what I
    drink? Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah,
    whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among
    men for an old man in the days of And the three eldest sons of Jesse
    went and followed Saul to the battle: and the names of his three
    sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next unto
    him Abinadab, and the third And David was the youngest: and the
    three eldest followed But David went and returned from Saul to feed
    his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
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