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And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:
Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven.
That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
