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For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?
Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,
But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.
These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out:
And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
