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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.
And the LORD shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.
And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.
And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and Achaz begat Ezekias;
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
But if ye enquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful assembly.
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.
