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And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
