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The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.
The son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.
And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
