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Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
Every raven after his kind;
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Destruction and misery are in their ways:
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
