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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the LORD hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying,
And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
