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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even.
And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
