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And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine:
And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
