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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?
So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet: for his God gave him rest round about.
And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them,
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
And some of the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
