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And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.
And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.
And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah:
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build an house for the LORD God of Israel.
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.
Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.
