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Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
I said in my haste, All men are liars.
And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
