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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.
What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?
The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.
That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more;
