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Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.
Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.
And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of their's, and speak thou good.
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.
And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar.
But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.
None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's.
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
