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And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.
And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.
For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; thy kingdom shall be sure unto thee, after that thou shalt have known that the heavens do rule.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.
So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.
