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And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
Beriah also, and Shema, who were heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
