• In those days Israel had no king

    From Luke Wagner@mpsjotzx_eqzj@oweqf.gjqxbwz.fj to alt.privacy.anon-server on Thu Sep 17 18:18:19 2026
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    All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron
    and the chief of Israel numbered, after their families, and after
    the house of their fathers, From thirty years old and upward even
    unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the
    ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the
    congregation, Even those that were numbered of them, were eight
    thousand and five hundred and fourscore. And they said, Lord,
    behold, here are two swords. But evil men and seducers shall wax
    worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. Peace be with you
    all that are in Christ Jesus. And he did that which was evil in the
    sight of the LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son
    of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. We have been with child, we have
    been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not
    wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants
    of the world fallen. And the king sent and called for Shimei, and
    said unto him, Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and
    protested unto thee, saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou
    goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely
    die? Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or
    tail, branch or rush, may do. Hear ye therefore the parable of the
    sower.
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