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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the LORD said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the LORD.
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
