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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.
Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him.
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
