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The copy of the letter that Tatnai, governor on this side the river, and Shethar-boznai, and his companions the Apharsachites, which were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king:
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.
Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.
And again he went away, and prayed, and spake the same words.
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.
For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
