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Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
The son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.
These were all the sons of David, beside the sons of the concubines, and Tamar their sister.
All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
