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Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate of the LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
The son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.
And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the LORD:
For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
For thy word's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things, to make thy servant know them.
The three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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 the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
