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Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.
Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;
