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Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.
Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.
So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:
Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
The sower soweth the word.
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;
And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
