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And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
