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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
Then Job answered and said,
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
