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And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
And they said unto him, Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants should do according to this thing:
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?
Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
