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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
Then said David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard that Saul seeketh to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the LORD.
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
