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Rh made Mine altar, but ye forsook it and knew not the house of My glory, as the foolish bibbing son knoweth not his father’s abode and wandereth in outer darkness, a butt for strangers’ children.


 * Thus spake the Lord: In Jerusalem I made Mine abode among the people, that, as bees come together to one hive, to one queen, so would ye come together unto Me, to the only Temple; but, as a wild swarm, ye flew away, and for it I sent evil hornets against you.


 * The lion of Judah ravished Israel and dispersed his sheep.


 * Saul’s descendants are fit to be keepers of flocks, but not of the people.


 * The Lord of Israel shall reach thee, and through me. (Raises his staff against the Jewish Prophet.)


 * Lord, remember Thy servant David. (Raises a stone to cast at the Samarian Prophet. Eleazar, a young prophet and singer, just come from Babylon, throws himself between the two.)


 * Refrain! Cover not with shame the names of Israel and Judah.