Consider what a man this was, unto whom the patriarch Abraham gave tithes of the spoils.

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

And Samuel took Saul and his lad and brought them into the parlour and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden: which were upon a thirty persons.

And the king said unto his servants, "Know ye not, how that there is a lord, and that a great, fallen this day in Israel?

And as long as there was battle between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner held up the house of Saul.

Shortly, I was greater and in more worship, than all my predecessors in Jerusalem. For wisdom remained with me:

And the people answered, "Nay, for if we flee, our adversaries will not care for us: neither, though half of us were slain, shall they regard us. But thou were worth ten thousand of us. And therefore it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city."

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall neither drink wine nor strong drink. And he shall be filled with the holy ghost, even in his mother's womb:

He shall be great, and shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto him the seat of his father David:

Before these days rose up one Theudas boasting himself, to whom resorted a number of men, about a four hundred, which was slain, and they all which believed him were scattered abroad, and brought to nought.

And there was a certain man called Simon, which beforetime in the same city, used witchcraft and bewitched the people of Samaria, saying that he was a man that could do great things.