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And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.
There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with thee.
And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
