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And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them: for the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him.
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
And saith unto him, See thou say nothing to any man: but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing those things which Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.
For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?
And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
Then said the princes unto Baruch, Go, hide thee, thou and Jeremiah; and let no man know where ye be.
When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king's high way, until we be past thy borders.
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
