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But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,
The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
So Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
And Simon he surnamed Peter;
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
