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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.
And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the LORD, and there abide for ever.
And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.
Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.
