פַּעַם פַּעֲמָה

Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?

Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD?

And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.

Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)