through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

So Esther arose, and stood before the king, 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: For how can
I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee. She hath
done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying. And their feet [were] straight feet; and the sole of their feet [was]
like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them,
as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint. And they of the circumcision which believed
were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then answered I them, and
said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor
memorial, in Jerusalem. When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. And as they were eating,
Jesus took bread, and blessed [it], and brake [it], and gave [it] to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And immediately Jesus
stretched forth [his] hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? And it came to pass, when the
minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD came upon him. If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. And they journeyed: and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were]
round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time
of your tribulation. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. And the LORD said unto him, Call his name
Jezreel; for yet a little [while], and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house
of Israel. And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. He that
getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the
house? Amen. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: but [he that is] perverse in his ways despiseth him. They have not known nor
understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand. He hath turned aside my ways, and
pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate. And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on [us], all hope that
we should be saved was then taken away. These [things are] the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation. And Elijah took
twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and
they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for
their iniquity. And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me
against Moab to battle? And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which
[were] upon thine hand. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of
Egypt to cease by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and [then] return. And
the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched
forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel. Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. So I spake unto the people in
the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the
government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. And under it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to
burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. Then was Daniel brought in before the king. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we
were with him in the holy mount. Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: The sons of
Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: And the sons
of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these [are] the sons of Jacob, which were
born to him in Padanaram. And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children
of Israel. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. Then the king of Israel called all the
elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this [man] seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and
for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not. And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her [shoulder], and said, Drink, and I will
give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in
the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. For there shall be a day, [that] the
watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron,
saying, When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast [it] before
Pharaoh, [and] it shall become a serpent. And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. Tell me,
what hast thou in the house? These things command and teach. And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel,
Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, And said unto them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves,
[both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto [the place that] I have prepared for it. I called my
servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in
hope. And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, [that] ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. The
nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. For now will I break his yoke from
off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. I [am] the rose of Sharon, [and]
the lily of the valleys. His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish. And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that
ye may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: intreat for me. [there is] none good but one, [that
is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate
[and] to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat [thereof], because they [are] holy. And it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? A
Song of degrees for Solomon. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city
sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O
LORD, [even] thy salvation, according to thy word. But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go. He that is not with me is
against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. And Boaz said unto the elders, and [unto] all the people, Ye [are] witnesses this
day, that I have bought all that [was] Elimelech’s, and all that [was] Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi. The other disciples therefore
said unto him, We have seen the Lord. And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and
put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold. Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware
both of them. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and [as for his] judgments, they have not known them. And they shall look unto the earth; and
behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and [they shall be] driven to darkness. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king. Proud [and]
haughty scorner [is] his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and
in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered. Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep:
in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or
a young hart upon the mountains of Bether. For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou
wast refused, saith thy God. But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard
[thereof], he said, It [is] the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion,
which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him. According to the commandment of the LORD they were
numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD
commanded Moses. And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries. And ye shall do no work in that same
day: for it [is] a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. So the people rested on the seventh day. And it came to
pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and
Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim, Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched [corn], and beans,
and lentiles, and parched [pulse], And honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of kine, for David, and for the people that [were] with him, to eat:
for they said, The people [is] hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness. The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the
spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Thus speak
unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then
ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, [even] a tenth [part] of the tithe. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions
which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. And for this [cause] Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. For it came to
pass, that, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from pursuing him. And when he
had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given
to the poor. And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. The porters: the children of Shallum, the
children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight. There
go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein. He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
therefore do greatly err. And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her. At the end of [every] seven
years thou shalt make a release. And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. Thy
people [shall be] willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. And
there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak:
who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And they had brick
for stone, and slime had they for morter. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do
well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. O thou king, the most high God gave
Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honour: And for the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and languages,
trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew; and whom he would he kept alive; and whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down.
And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from
the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings,
and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD. Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world
rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts,
beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your
peace offerings. And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What [be] these? And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod
[shall be] for the head of the house of their fathers. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope. And entering into
the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. Gird thy sword upon [thy]
thigh, O [most] mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. What [meaneth] the heat of this great anger? Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and
my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give [it] unto men, whom I know not whence they [be]? But that on the good ground are they, which
in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep [it], and bring forth fruit with patience. And they cut off his head, and stripped off his
armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish [it in] the house of their idols, and among the people. And I said, My
strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. And Balak said unto him, Come,
I pray thee, with me unto another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all:
and curse me them from thence. The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. These [are]
the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son
of Sodi. This [is] also vanity. And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give
you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified. And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? Therefore David inquired of the LORD,
saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? This [is] the day [which] the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. And whence [is]
this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness. And when there
was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use [them] despitefully, and to stone them, They were ware of
[it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: And there they preached the gospel. Selah.
Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. When he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble. Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of
Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and
fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land. And the king lamented over Abner, and
said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. And the
servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter. And when the virgins were gathered together the
second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate. All [things] have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just [man] that perisheth in his
righteousness, and there is a wicked [man] that prolongeth [his life] in his wickedness. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, [even] glory to the righteous. And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and
he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, [Art] thou that my lord Elijah? Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make
princes in all the earth. And the foundations of the wall of the city [were] garnished with all manner of precious stones. And I gathered them
together, and set them in their place. And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter. And they that were with
me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the
sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught. Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind,
that ye may see. Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that
were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]. And [this] shall be a statute for ever unto you: [that] in the
seventh month, on the tenth [day] of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, [whether it be] one of your own country, or a
stranger that sojourneth among you: 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. And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew [the
brother of] Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear [was] like a weaver’s beam. And God said unto him, Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name shall not
be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why
take ye thought for the rest? For in death [there is] no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? The children of Arah, seven
hundred seventy and five. Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. And thou saidst unto me, The word [that]
I have heard [is] good. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt. But the bullock, and his hide,
his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the camp; as the LORD commanded Moses. And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above
all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore
daughters.) And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, [to be] ruler among his brethren: for [he thought] to make him king. And it came
to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Man goeth forth unto
his work and to his labour until the evening. And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the LORD, which [was] at the tabernacle of the
congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it. Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven
with the saving strength of his right hand. What? And she said unto her, [Is it] a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? Drop down, ye
heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring
up together; I the LORD have created it. And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us:
and we forbad him, because he followeth not us. As it were the company of two armies. At that time will I bring you [again], even in the time that I
gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD.
But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know
that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants [shall be] with thy servants, Even to prepare me timber in abundance:
for the house which I am about to build [shall be] wonderful great. SAMECH. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come,
Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy
law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of
Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed
their hands and their feet thereat: When they went into the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as the
LORD commanded Moses. Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God, Praise the LORD; for the LORD [is] good: sing
praises unto his name; for [it is] pleasant. Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed
with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. So Ebedmelech took the men with him,
and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the
dungeon to Jeremiah. He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen
as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which
is by faith. If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good,
and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he. For the administration of this service not only supplieth
the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God; Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your
professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for [your] liberal distribution unto them, and unto all [men]; And by their prayer for you,
which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine,
are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and
speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me. And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of
Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them. And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the
death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed
to his own house, glorifying God. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy
seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up [as] among the grass, as willows by the water courses. A virtuous woman [is] a
crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones. And [there were] narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and [upon] the side chambers of the house, and thick planks. And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt
not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all [of] blue. Moreover the word of the LORD
came unto me, saying, Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these [things mean]? I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness,
that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised
my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols. Who said, Canst thou speak Greek? May I not wash in them,
and be clean? Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we [are] thy bone and thy flesh. And the men of
Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech. And
the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the
ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? Behold, I have told you before. Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he
have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth
how long. And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech. The same was in the
beginning with God. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine
abominations. And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these [be]. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as
[much as] in all riches. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper:
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy. And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these
[things] unto us? And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword
and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they
stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. The voice said, Cry. So they threw her down: and [some] of her blood was sprinkled on
the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. But that which ye have [already] hold fast till I come. Know now that there shall fall
unto the earth nothing of the word of the LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done [that] which he spake by
his servant Elijah. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. [And] in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth
month, the ninth [day] of the month, the city was broken up. And I would have given thee ten [shekels] of silver, and a girdle. They also that seek
after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. Woe unto them that
decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the
right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless! And what will ye do in the day of
visitation, and in the desolation [which] shall come from far? And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat,
and bowed down to their gods. And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of
their fathers shall they pine away with them. And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found [them]
not: then they passed through the land of Shalim, and [there they were] not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found [them]
not. In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; In the first
year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would
accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he
shall tell thee what shall become of the child. And Moses charged the people the same day, saying, These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the
people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin: And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to
curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. [Is it] a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which [is]
Zion. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. For I know that the LORD [is] great,
and [that] our Lord [is] above all gods. And Abner said, [As] thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and
strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and [that] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the