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Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
