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How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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:
Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
Sihon king of the Amorites: for his mercy endureth for ever:
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.
