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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
The sons of Joel; Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Beth-shean and her towns, and they who are of the valley of Jezreel.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams; and ye little hills, like lambs?
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
