and he saith to teach the sons of Judah 'The Bow;' lo, it is written on the book of the Upright: --

How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

Now, thy maidservant, had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, with none to tear them apart, - so the one smote the other, and slew him.

And the field was fought in divers places, all abroad upon the earth. And the woods devoured more people that day than did the sword.

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

For who [is] God apart from Yahweh? And who [is] a rock apart from our God?

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

Like the light of [the] morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, [bringing] vegetation from the earth apart from rain.'

And forthwith the king said to Joab the captain of his Host, "Go abroad, I pray thee, throughout all the tribes of Israel, even from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people that I may know the number of them."

And so when they had been abroad throughout all the land they returned to Jerusalem again at the end of nine months and twenty days.