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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
But Job answered and said,
Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now, for he came to day to the city; for there is a sacrifice of the people to day in the high place:
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
