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And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.
Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
Wherefore now let the fear of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
