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And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled him.
And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Go ye, enquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?
The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
