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Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD.
And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and five.
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
The men of Michmas, an hundred twenty and two.
But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.
