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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
The seed also of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.
For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
