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Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:
