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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever.
And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:
Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
