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Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols.
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
