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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another piece over against the going up to the armoury at the turning of the wall.
But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.
And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
And for the entering of the oracle he made doors of olive tree: the lintel and side posts were a fifth part of the wall.
Thus saith the LORD; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
