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And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the LORD, saying,
And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
And Rehoboam took him Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David to wife, and Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine:
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
