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Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:
And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
And he went up from thence unto Beth-el: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.
And Judah sent the kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
