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Now they which were scattered abroad upon the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only.
And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:
Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.
Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
