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Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
And they sent and called him. So Jeroboam and all Israel came and spake to Rehoboam, saying,
And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
