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And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;
The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.
