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And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
And the damsel was very fair, and cherished the king, and ministered to him: but the king knew her not.
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.
Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was intreated of us.
Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
The rings, and nose jewels,
And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
