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Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever.
And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
