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And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,
And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.
Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
