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The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.
Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
And said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this thing: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mightiest.
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors toward the north.
When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
And when they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings, Jehu appointed fourscore men without, and said, If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, he that letteth him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.
And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
But ye have not so learned Christ;
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
