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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,
Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.
Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
And of the sons of Harim; Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the LORD liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
