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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
It is thou, O king, that art grown and become strong: for thy greatness is grown, and reacheth unto heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth.
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian:
The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
