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And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.
But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:
The tabernacle of the congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
