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Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.
While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.
And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
As for Elkanah: the sons of Elkanah; Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.
