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Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.
And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.
To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
And he left all, rose up, and followed him.
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Behold, I have told you before.
And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
And all the people of the land rejoiced: and the city was quiet, after that they had slain Athaliah with the sword.
And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
