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Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.
And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:
So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
