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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.
For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.
If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counsellor.
And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king.
