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For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD.
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD.
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.
For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
