&#8220;Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify<n id="1" /> them.

&#8220;Separate yourselves<n id="1" /> from among this community,<n id="2" /> that I may consume them in an instant.&#8221;

But if you continue to do evil, both you and your king will be swept away.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Saul replied, &#8220;May you be blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>, for you have had compassion on me.

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Without a doubt you are the people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and wisdom will die with you.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">But you, however, are inventors of lies;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">all of you are worthless physicians!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">If you yourselves have all seen this,p> <p class="poetry">Why in the world<n id="1" /> do you continue this meaningless talk?<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;You are gods;p> <p class="poetry">all of you are sons of the Most High.&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My child, do not go down<n id="1" /> their way,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">withhold yourself<n id="3" /> from their path;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not envy evil people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">do not desire<n id="2" /> to be with them;p>

<p class="poetry">Look, you are nothing, and your accomplishments are nonexistent;p> <p class="poetry">the one who chooses to worship you is disgusting.<n id="1" />p>

I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.

Persia,<n id="1" /> Ethiopia, and Put<n id="2" /> are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.p>

<p class="bodytext">In the seventh year Jehoiada summoned<n id="1" /> the officers of the units of hundreds of the Carians<n id="2" /> and the royal bodyguard.<n id="3" /> He met with them<n id="4" /> in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. He made an agreement<n id="5" /> with them and made them swear an oath of allegiance in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple. Then he showed them the king&#8217;s son.

<p class="poetry">Why are you doing these things to me, Tyre and Sidon?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Are you trying to get even with me, land of Philistia?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will very quickly repay you for what you have done!<n id="3" />p>

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them &#8220;humankind.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building<n id="1" /> the city.

<p class="bodytext">Jacob asked them, &#8220;My brothers, where are you from?&#8221; They replied, &#8220;We&#8217;re from Haran.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">But Joseph told them, &#8220;It is just as I said to you:<n id="1" /> You are spies!