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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.
Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
