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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.
But Amaziah would not hear. Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.
Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,
And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant: so shall he do; he shall even return, and have intelligence with them that forsake the holy covenant.
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and thou shalt offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, unto the LORD, to make an atonement for the Levites.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
