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Yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
