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Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.
The son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
