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And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart.
And the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the LORD, lest he break forth upon them.
Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.
How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,
Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.
For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)
And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.
The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
