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As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.
And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,
Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:
