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In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place:
The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.
In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
So David waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts was with him.
And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
