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Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.
Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
(Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness of Edom.
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.
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.
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
