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And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
