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Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter.
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so too.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Ami.
And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.
In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
