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And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord GOD; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant's house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more.
And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.
And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.
But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
