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In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,
For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
