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Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.
The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD,
And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
