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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;
And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:
All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
