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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.
And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.
And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the LORD, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.
And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
