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If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.
Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Bless the LORD, O house of Levi: ye that fear the LORD, bless the LORD.
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's bondmen.
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
