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Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
They took their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and that which was in the field,
And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.
As concerning the sons of Laadan; the sons of the Gershonite Laadan, chief fathers, even of Laadan the Gershonite, were Jehieli.
The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
But neither so did their witness agree together.
And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.
In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
