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Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:
Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.
And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
