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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 when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now shall the kingdom return to the house of David:
So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the LORD.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
