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Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.
Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.
When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee from every wicked thing.
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.
And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.
