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To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring: for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!
And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
