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Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.
The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,
Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
