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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
And he said, Appoint me thy wages, and I will give it.
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
And all flesh shall see that I the LORD have kindled it: it shall not be quenched.
For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
