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And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Behold, I build an house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
