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And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
The simple inherit folly: but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
