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Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons of Pharaoh.
To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
Let brotherly love continue.
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
