Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest {thou know not} what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom. {country: Heb. field}

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. {when...: Heb. of finding}

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and {there be} none to deliver.

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, {if} thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. {him: that is, God}

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched {corn}, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid {them} on asses. {clusters: or, lumps}

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now {is} the accepted time; behold, now {is} the day of salvation.)

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold {on thee}. {take...: or, should uphold thee}

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell {us}, how was this wickedness?

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.