Thematic Bible: Saints despised
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But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us. They laughed at us and said: What are you doing? Will you go against the king?
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said: What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they make themselves strong? Will they make offerings? Will they get the work done in a day? Will they make the stones that have been burned come again out of the dust?
I am small and despised. Even so I do not forget your precepts.
When the Ark of Jehovah came to the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out of a window and saw King David leaping and dancing in Jehovah's presence. She despised him in her heart.
I have become a laughingstock to my friends! I called upon God and he answered. Yet I am a mere laughingstock, though righteous and blameless!
The Philistine got a good look at David and he despised him. David was only a young man with a healthy complexion and good looks.
God also chose the base things of the world, and things which are despised, yes, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
being slandered, we answer kindly. We are made as the filth of the world and are the refuse of all things to this day.
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