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Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.
And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among the three mighties.
The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.
