Quotations

«And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: / And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.»

«But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? / Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: / That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.»

«Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.»

«Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.»

«And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.»

«And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant.»

«And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.»

«Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall I go against Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king.»

«And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: / (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) / The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! / Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.»

«But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: / But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.»