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²⁰ And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart;

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²¹ And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

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²² For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

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²³ Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

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²⁴ Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

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²⁵ But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

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¹³ And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

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⁷ And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

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⁸ And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such and such things.

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⁹ Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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¹⁴ I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

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⁷ Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

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⁸ And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes;

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⁹ But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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¹⁰ Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

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¹¹ Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

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²⁰ And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD.

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²⁶ And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

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³ And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

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⁵ Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

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⁷ And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand.

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²⁰ And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.

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⁷ Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

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¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

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¹¹ The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

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¹ To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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⁷ The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

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⁸ The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

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⁹ The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

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⁵ Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

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¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. honeycomb.

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¹¹ Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

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¹¹ When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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²¹ These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

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¹² Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

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⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

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⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

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⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

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⁷ He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

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⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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²³ Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

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²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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³⁰ They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

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¹ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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⁵ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

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⁵ Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

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⁵ Open rebuke is better than secret love.

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⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

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¹ He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

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¹² And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

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²³ For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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¹⁷ He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

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¹⁸ Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

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¹⁰ Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

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¹² A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

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³¹ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

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³² He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

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¹⁰ A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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²⁵ Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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¹¹ When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

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²⁵ But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

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¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

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²³ He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

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¹⁵ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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⁵ It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

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⁴ And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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³ And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

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¹ Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

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²⁰ Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

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⁴ Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

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³ And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

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⁴ For they are impudent impudent children and stiffhearted. stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.

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⁵ And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are a rebellious house, yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

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⁶ And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

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⁷ And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

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¹⁷ Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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²² And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

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²³ But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

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¹⁰ They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

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⁸ But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.