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Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the LORD.
And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.
I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
