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All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
