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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;
Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
