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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
The sons of Reuel; Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.
The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
Eber, Peleg, Reu,
And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,
