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On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for their's was the lot.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?
And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Then his father and his mother said unto him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said unto his father, Get her for me; for she pleaseth me well.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
