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Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,
Neither shalt thou steal.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel:
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
