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Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
So Hushai David's friend came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
