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The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.
For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols, even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the LORD? let it come now.
Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
