looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men

I SAM. viii. 7.

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And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee; for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them

I SAM. XV. 2, 3.

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Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, &c.

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Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites

2 SAM. xxiv. 1.

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And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah

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And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover; howbeit, the Lord hath showed me that he shall surely die

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PART III.

2 CHRON. Xviii. 18-22.

I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead? &c. 195

2 CHRON. Xxxiv. 28.

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same

JOB ii. 1. and compare Joв i. 6.

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Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord

PSALM 1xxxix. 39-49.

ibid.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant.-Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest to David in thy truth?

PSALM cix.

PSALM CXXXvii. 8, 9.

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O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones

Come now, and let

ISAIAH i. 18.

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us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as

snow, &c.

ISAIAH V. 26.

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And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and

will hiss unto them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly

ISAIAH XX. 3, 4.

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And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; so shall the king of Assyria, &c.

ISAIAH lxiii. 17.

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O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways?

JEREM. iv. 10.

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Then said I, Ah, Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul

JEREM. vii. 22, 23.

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I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, &c..

JEREM. xiii. 4.

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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock,-&c.

JEREM. XV. 18.

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O Lord-wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

JEREM. XX. 7,

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O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed

JEREM. xxvii. 2, 3.

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Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, and send them to the king of Edom, &c.

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EZEK. iv. 1, &c.

Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem, &c.

EZEK. xii. 21, 22.

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And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? &c.

EZEK. xiv. 9.

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And if the Prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that Prophet, &c. 257

I

EZEK. XX. 25.

gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live.

HOSEA i. 2.

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And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord

MICAH vi. 7.

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Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

ZECH. iii. 1, 2.

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And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him, &c.

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