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Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.
The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
