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Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;
Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
