- 2 Samuel 2
  
  1 It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David said, "Where shall I go up?" He said, "To Hebron."
  
  2 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
  
  3 David brought up his men who were with him, every man with his household. They lived in the cities of Hebron.
  
  4 The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."
  
  5 David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.
  
  6 Now may Yahweh show loving kindness and truth to you. I also will reward you for this kindness, because you have done this thing.
  
  7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them."
  
  8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
  
  9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
  
  10 Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
  
  11 The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
  
  12 Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
  
  13 Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
  
  14 Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us!" Joab said, "Let them arise!"
  
  15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
  
  16 They each caught his opponent by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
  
  17 The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.
  
  18 The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
  
  19 Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he didn't turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
  
  20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, "Is it you, Asahel?" He answered, "It is I."
  
  21 Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and grab one of the young men, and take his armor." But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.
  
  22 Abner said again to Asahel, "Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?"
  
  23 However he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner with the back end of the spear struck him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place. It happened, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
  
  24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they had come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
  
  25 The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
  
  26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"
  
  27 Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother."
  
  28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.
  
  29 Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
  
  30 Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
  
  31 But the servants of David had struck of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred sixty men died.
  
  32 They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
  
  Ezéchiel 11
  
  1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's house, which looks eastward: and see, at the door of the gate twenty-five men; and I saw in their midst Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
  
  2 He said to me, Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;
  
  3 who say, The time is not near to build houses: this is the caldron, and we are the meat.
  
  4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, son of man.
  
  5 The Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says Yahweh: Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
  
  6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and you have filled its streets with the slain.
  
  7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom you have laid in its midst, they are the meat, and this is the caldron; but you shall be brought out of its midst.
  
  8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword on you, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  9 I will bring you forth out of its midst, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
  
  10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  
  11 This shall not be your caldron, neither shall you be the meat in its midst; I will judge you in the border of Israel;
  
  12 and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are around you.
  
  13 It happened, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down on my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Yahweh! will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
  
  14 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
  
  15 Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Go far away from Yahweh. This land has been given to us for a possession.
  
  16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they have come.
  
  17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
  
  18 They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.
  
  19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
  
  20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
  
  21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
  
  22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
  
  23 The glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood on the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
  
  24 The Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
  
  25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
  
  1 Corinthiens 13
  
  1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
  
  2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.
  
  3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
  
  4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
  
  5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
  
  6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
  
  7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  
  8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.
  
  9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
  
  10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
  
  11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.
  
  12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
  
  13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

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