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Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee.
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.
Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
