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Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith's son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.
All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
