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And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:
The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
And all the men were about twelve.
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
From thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter into the host, to do the work in the tabernacle of the congregation.
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
For the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.
Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.
