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Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;
The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
