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All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
And Simon he surnamed Peter;
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:
Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?
One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And all the men were about twelve.
And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!
But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto.
And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.
But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.
Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
