# bible

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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’


id: 1db83d2a-f409-4e8c-a8a3-8324acc49651
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought all this disaster on them.’” 


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  and Baalath, and all the store cities that Solomon had and all the cities for his chariots and the cities for his horsemen, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  All the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel,


id: 480f261d-e5ca-4126-91a6-721346c9c092
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  from their descendants who were left after them in the land, whom the people of Israel had not destroyed—these Solomon drafted as forced labor, and so they are to this day.


id: e928a3f2-c981-4a07-8528-23f26b8eac84
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  But of the people of Israel Solomon made no slaves for his work; they were soldiers, and his officers, the commanders of his chariots, and his horsemen.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel, for the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then Solomon offered up burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD that he had built before the vestibule,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  as the duty of each day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths.


id: 1c02b77e-a7bf-4c00-8149-356941c51bbc
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  According to the ruling of David his father, he appointed the divisions of the priests for their service, and the Levites for their offices of praise and ministry before the priests as the duty of each day required, and the gatekeepers in their divisions at each gate, for so David the man of God had commanded.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And they did not turn aside from what the king had commanded the priests and Levites concerning any matter and concerning the treasuries.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Thus was accomplished all the work of Solomon from the day the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Hiram sent to him by the hand of his servants ships and servants familiar with the sea, and they went to Ophir together with the servants of Solomon and brought from there 450 talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. 


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Solomon answered all her questions. There was nothing hidden from Solomon that he could not explain to her.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, and their clothing, his cupbearers, and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the LORD, there was no more breath in her.


id: 2185af54-8f37-4c35-afd1-ee47bc37231b
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.


id: 6c384507-b289-4b7d-87ac-9dd8ff03134a
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!


id: 2a0766e1-5655-4c75-a0df-b8e134897a46
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you and set you on his throne as king for the LORD your God! Because your God loved Israel and would establish them forever, he has made you king over them, that you may execute justice and righteousness.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Moreover, the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought algum wood and precious stones.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And the king made from the algum wood supports for the house of the LORD and for the king’s house, lyres also and harps for the singers. There never was seen the like of them before in the land of Judah.


id: 7849d7bd-3cbb-46d9-8cfc-12fd03d4f43c
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all that she desired, whatever she asked besides what she had brought to the king. So she turned and went back to her own land with her servants.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  besides that which the explorers and merchants brought. And all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought gold and silver to Solomon.


id: 819f9b93-1f33-49f8-940b-37a07c475dcb
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold went into each shield.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 300 shekels of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.


id: ad3e0853-0ff7-4bcd-abb7-e31a35204e51
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  The throne had six steps and a footstool of gold, which were attached to the throne, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  while twelve lions stood there, one on each end of a step on the six steps. Nothing like it was ever made for any kingdom.


id: 4d8f047f-25eb-4b80-b9f7-7902aa3bb0b2
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.


id: c3d9aa4c-5dde-4f8f-89a8-2e8bc8b7e94a
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.


id: 37b50043-9b6e-4e38-8d4f-38d145c17dad
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Every one of them brought his present, articles of silver and of gold, garments, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, so much year by year.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen, whom he stationed in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.


id: 140a0493-9ad0-40a7-b965-404c6d0bb5d3
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, from first to last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


id: 943b5314-a8c4-49e2-9598-ac51384791f8
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. 


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And as soon as Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, where he had fled from King Solomon), then Jeroboam returned from Egypt.


id: a1e22cfe-7062-40c3-814f-88717935d971
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And they said to him, “If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.


id: 38ebccf6-abb2-4d4c-acab-55bc6565854e
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And the young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus shall you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us’; thus shall you say to them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s thighs.


id: 9046405a-59d2-4889-982d-dbb4b107cdf7
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  King Rehoboam spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by God that the LORD might fulfill his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, “What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each of you to your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David.” So all Israel went to their tents.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was taskmaster over the forced labor, and the people of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And King Rehoboam quickly mounted his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen warriors, to fight against Israel, to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.


id: 14825acc-3867-46a5-a187-1553687111af
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  ‘Thus says the LORD, You shall not go up or fight against your relatives. Return every man to his home, for this thing is from me.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and returned and did not go against Jeroboam.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And he put shields and spears in all the cities and made them very strong. So he held Judah and Benjamin.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all places where they lived.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  For the Levites left their common lands and their holdings and came to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons cast them out from serving as priests of the LORD,


id: 1fdecd72-9a63-4f20-b849-aee9fb27ea33
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  and he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the calves that he had made.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And those who had set their hearts to seek the LORD God of Israel came after them from all the tribes of Israel to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


id: 048e21fc-05ac-41ea-9340-d79b637896bc
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  They strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and for three years they made Rehoboam the son of Solomon secure, for they walked for three years in the way of David and Solomon.


id: 5fbf8c1b-bbc0-4eca-b1c2-8da903b07e5e
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief prince among his brothers, for he intended to make him king.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them. 


id: 56c3cc3c-4303-452b-b67c-81ea4c05581b
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  When the rule of Rehoboam was established and he was strong, he abandoned the law of the LORD, and all Israel with him.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians.


id: d2f1aec4-cd5b-4e15-a3d3-9af3cefe9e84
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the LORD, ‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  When the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Nevertheless, they shall be servants to him, that they may know my service and the service of the kingdoms of the countries.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem. He took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king’s house. He took away everything. He also took away the shields of gold that Solomon had made,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  and King Rehoboam made in their place shields of bronze and committed them to the hands of the officers of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.


id: 360cacde-3dfe-4945-bda2-6855989b8e71
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And as often as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard came and carried them and brought them back to the guardroom.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And when he humbled himself the wrath of the LORD turned from him, so as not to make a complete destruction. Moreover, conditions were good in Judah.


id: 7f796cac-c74e-41c4-9a40-09648994c235
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  So King Rehoboam grew strong in Jerusalem and reigned. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city that the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.


id: 75118007-7690-433b-9444-1036e851bf66
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer? There were continual wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. 


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Abijah went out to battle, having an army of valiant men of war, 400,000 chosen men. And Jeroboam drew up his line of battle against him with 800,000 chosen mighty warriors.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, “Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel!


id: 6320d56a-253b-45aa-8679-fe94ee09cff9
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Ought you not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingship over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord,


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.


id: d4bd4e26-d7a7-4209-9871-526fddf392e0
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  “And now you think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David, because you are a great multitude and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you for gods.


id: d3611922-5327-4f51-b430-9203cbfaf440
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Have you not driven out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves like the peoples of other lands? Whoever comes for ordination with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what are not gods.


id: 1e36906a-974c-4183-aabd-dbd004157d87
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him. We have priests ministering to the LORD who are sons of Aaron, and Levites for their service.


id: 4284a447-0e2c-4296-911f-86e131180f59
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  They offer to the LORD every morning and every evening burnt offerings and incense of sweet spices, set out the showbread on the table of pure gold, and care for the golden lampstand that its lamps may burn every evening. For we keep the charge of the LORD our God, but you have forsaken him.


id: a1e81483-a010-4bd3-99e6-da86cbee0e60
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the LORD, and the priests blew the trumpets.


id: 7710ba89-782d-4426-84b3-896bf555a87f
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.


id: 80a16934-3d83-4fc6-998f-225683279919
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Abijah and his people struck them with great force, so there fell slain of Israel 500,000 chosen men.


id: f1c1ee09-6f42-41f0-93e1-1f3483f6e8b7
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Thus the men of Israel were subdued at that time, and the men of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.


id: d3de2fd4-813c-452c-b334-80cc14749c61
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.


id: b9285f3e-f69d-4945-a56a-27e13508d46e
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Jeroboam did not recover his power in the days of Abijah. And the LORD struck him down, and he died.


id: ab628b61-650d-4d1d-8784-5ac0c435852d
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  The rest of the acts of Abijah, his ways and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. 


id: abfcc0ed-f524-4417-aba7-dcd98a5d385d
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son reigned in his place. In his days the land had rest for ten years.


id: eef7c6b7-1a31-4104-ae72-1df80713ca71
book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
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  He took away the foreign altars and the high places and broke down the pillars and cut down the Asherim


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  and commanded Judah to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.


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  He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.


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  He built fortified cities in Judah, for the land had rest. He had no war in those years, for the LORD gave him peace.


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  And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought him, and he has given us peace on every side.” So they built and prospered.


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  And Asa had an army of 300,000 from Judah, armed with large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin that carried shields and drew bows. All these were mighty men of valor.


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  Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and 300 chariots, and came as far as Mareshah.


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  And Asa went out to meet him, and they drew up their lines of battle in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.


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  And Asa cried to the LORD his God, “O LORD, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.”


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  Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil.


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  And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.


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  And they struck down the tents of those who had livestock and carried away sheep in abundance and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. 


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  and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.


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  but when in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.


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  In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands.


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  They were broken in pieces. Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress.


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  As soon as Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Azariah the son of Oded, he took courage and put away the detestable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was in front of the vestibule of the house of the LORD.


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  And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.


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  They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.


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  And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,


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  but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.


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  They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.


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  And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.


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  Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.


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  But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true all his days.


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  And he brought into the house of God the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.


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  In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and built Ramah, that he might permit no one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.


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  Then Asa took silver and gold from the treasures of the house of the LORD and the king’s house and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Syria, who lived in Damascus, saying,


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  “There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Behold, I am sending to you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may withdraw from me.”


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  And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and they conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.


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  Then King Asa took all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber, with which Baasha had been building, and with them he built Geba and Mizpah.


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  At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.


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  Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet because you relied on the LORD, he gave them into your hand.


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  For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”


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  Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the stocks in prison, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa inflicted cruelties upon some of the people at the same time.


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  In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought help from physicians.


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  They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer’s art, and they made a very great fire in his honor. 


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  He placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.


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  The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,


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  but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel.


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  Therefore the LORD established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.


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  His heart was courageous in the ways of the LORD. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.


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  In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;


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  and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram.


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  And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the LORD with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.


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  And the fear of the LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were around Judah, and they made no war against Jehoshaphat.


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  Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute, and the Arabians also brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats.


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  and he had large supplies in the cities of Judah. He had soldiers, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.


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  This was the muster of them by fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor;


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  and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the LORD, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.


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  These were in the service of the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. 


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  After some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.


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  Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”


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  Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?” And they said, “Go up, for God will give it into the hand of the king.”


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  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the LORD, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he never prophesies good concerning me, but always evil.” And Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”


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  Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting on their thrones, arrayed in their robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them.


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  And all the prophets prophesied so and said, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph. The LORD will give it into the hand of the king.”


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  And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I refrain?” And he answered, “Go up and triumph; they will be given into your hand.”


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  And Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.


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  And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.


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  Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD, saying, ‘I will entice him.’ And the LORD said to him, ‘By what means?’


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  And he said, ‘I will go out, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And he said, ‘You are to entice him, and you shall succeed; go out and do so.’


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  Now therefore behold, the LORD has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your prophets. The LORD has declared disaster concerning you.”


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  Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “Which way did the Spirit of the LORD go from me to speak to you?”


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  And the king of Israel said, “Seize Micaiah and take him back to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,


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  and say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.’”


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  And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your robes.” And the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went into battle.


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  Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, “Fight with neither small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.”


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  As soon as the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “It is the king of Israel.” So they turned to fight against him. And Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; God drew them away from him.


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  For as soon as the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.


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  And the battle continued that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening. Then at sunset he died. 


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  But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.


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  Nevertheless, some good is found in you, for you destroyed the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”


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  Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem. And he went out again among the people, from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


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  and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you judge not for man but for the LORD. He is with you in giving judgment.


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  Now then, let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Be careful what you do, for there is no injustice with the LORD our God, or partiality or taking bribes.”


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  Moreover, in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat appointed certain Levites and priests and heads of families of Israel, to give judgment for the LORD and to decide disputed cases. They had their seat at Jerusalem.


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  And he charged them: “Thus you shall do in the fear of the LORD, in faithfulness, and with your whole heart:


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  whenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.


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  And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters, and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the LORD be with the upright!” 


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  After this the Moabites and Ammonites, and with them some of the Meunites, came against Jehoshaphat for battle.


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  Some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A great multitude is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the sea; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, Engedi).


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  Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.


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  And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.


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  And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,


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  and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you.


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  Did you not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham your friend?


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  ‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and before you—for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’


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  And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—


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  behold, they reward us by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.


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  O our God, will you not execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but our eyes are on you.”


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content:
  And the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.


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  And he said, “Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: Thus says the LORD to you, ‘Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed at this great horde, for the battle is not yours but God’s.


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  Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz. You will find them at the end of the valley, east of the wilderness of Jeruel.


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  You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the LORD will be with you.”


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  Then Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.


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  And the Levites, of the Kohathites and the Korahites, stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.


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  And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”


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  And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed those who were to sing to the LORD and praise him in holy attire, as they went before the army, and say, “Give thanks to the LORD, for his steadfast love endures forever.”


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  And when they began to sing and praise, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.


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  For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.


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  When Judah came to the watchtower of the wilderness, they looked toward the horde, and behold, there were dead bodies lying on the ground; none had escaped.


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  When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their spoil, they found among them, in great numbers, goods, clothing, and precious things, which they took for themselves until they could carry no more. They were three days in taking the spoil, it was so much.


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  On the fourth day they assembled in the Valley of Beracah, for there they blessed the LORD. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Beracah to this day.


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  Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat at their head, returning to Jerusalem with joy, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.


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  And the fear of God came on all the kingdoms of the countries when they heard that the LORD had fought against the enemies of Israel.


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  Thus Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.


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  He walked in the way of Asa his father and did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the LORD.


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  The high places, however, were not taken away; the people had not yet set their hearts upon the God of their fathers.


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  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.


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  Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the LORD will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish. 


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  Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place.


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  He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.


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  Their father gave them great gifts of silver, gold, and valuable possessions, together with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, because he was the firstborn.


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  When Jehoram had ascended the throne of his father and was established, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.


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  Yet the LORD was not willing to destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his sons forever.


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  Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all his chariots, and he rose by night and struck the Edomites who had surrounded him and his chariot commanders.


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  So Edom revolted from the rule of Judah to this day. At that time Libnah also revolted from his rule, because he had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.


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  Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom and made Judah go astray.


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  And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, or in the ways of Asa king of Judah,


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  but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into whoredom, as the house of Ahab led Israel into whoredom, and also you have killed your brothers, of your father’s house, who were better than you,


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  behold, the LORD will bring a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions,


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  and you yourself will have a severe sickness with a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the disease, day by day.’”


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  And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the anger of the Philistines and of the Arabians who are near the Ethiopians.


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  And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions they found that belonged to the king’s house, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.


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  In the course of time, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great agony. His people made no fire in his honor, like the fires made for his fathers.


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  He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one’s regret. They buried him in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings. 


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  And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.


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  Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.


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  He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.


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  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.


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  He even followed their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to make war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead. And the Syrians wounded Joram,


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  and he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that he had received at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was wounded.


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  But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.


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  And when Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he met the princes of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers, who attended Ahaziah, and he killed them.


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  He searched for Ahaziah, and he was captured while hiding in Samaria, and he was brought to Jehu and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” And the house of Ahaziah had no one able to rule the kingdom.


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  Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family of the house of Judah.


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  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were about to be put to death, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not put him to death.


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  And he remained with them six years, hidden in the house of God, while Athaliah reigned over the land. 


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  But in the seventh year Jehoiada took courage and entered into a covenant with the commanders of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri.


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  And they went about through Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.


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  And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, “Behold, the king’s son! Let him reign, as the LORD spoke concerning the sons of David.


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  This is the thing that you shall do: of you priests and Levites who come off duty on the Sabbath, one third shall be gatekeepers,


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  and one third shall be at the king’s house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.


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  Let no one enter the house of the LORD except the priests and ministering Levites. They may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the charge of the LORD.


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  The Levites shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever enters the house shall be put to death. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”


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  The Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and they each brought his men, who were to go off duty on the Sabbath, with those who were to come on duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the divisions.


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  And Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains the spears and the large and small shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of God.


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  And he set all the people as a guard for the king, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the south side of the house to the north side of the house, around the altar and the house.


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  Then they brought out the king’s son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king.”


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  When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went into the house of the LORD to the people.


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  And when she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and the singers with their musical instruments leading in the celebration. And Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, “Treason! Treason!”


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  Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains who were set over the army, saying to them, “Bring her out between the ranks, and anyone who follows her is to be put to death with the sword.” For the priest said, “Do not put her to death in the house of the LORD.”


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  So they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the horse gate of the king’s house, and they put her to death there.


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  And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king that they should be the LORD’s people.


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  Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.


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  And Jehoiada posted watchmen for the house of the LORD under the direction of the Levitical priests and the Levites whom David had organized to be in charge of the house of the LORD, to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, as it is written in the Law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.


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  He stationed the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of the LORD so that no one should enter who was in any way unclean.


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  And he took the captains, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD, marching through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they set the king on the royal throne.


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  So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been put to death with the sword. 


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  Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.


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  And he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and gather from all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that you act quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.


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  So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and Jerusalem the tax levied by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the congregation of Israel for the tent of testimony?”


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  For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken into the house of God, and had also used all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD for the Baals.


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  And proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the LORD the tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.


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  And all the princes and all the people rejoiced and brought their tax and dropped it into the chest until they had finished.


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  And whenever the chest was brought to the king’s officers by the Levites, when they saw that there was much money in it, the king’s secretary and the officer of the chief priest would come and empty the chest and take it and return it to its place. Thus they did day after day, and collected money in abundance.


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  And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who had charge of the work of the house of the LORD, and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of the LORD.


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  So those who were engaged in the work labored, and the repairing went forward in their hands, and they restored the house of God to its proper condition and strengthened it.


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  And when they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and with it were made utensils for the house of the LORD, both for the service and for the burnt offerings, and dishes for incense and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD regularly all the days of Jehoiada.


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  And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.


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  Now after the death of Jehoiada the princes of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them.


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  And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.


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  Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the LORD. These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.


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  Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’”


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  But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD.


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content:
  Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”


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  At the end of the year the army of the Syrians came up against Joash. They came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all their spoil to the king of Damascus.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army, because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers. Thus they executed judgment on Joash.


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  When they had departed from him, leaving him severely wounded, his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Those who conspired against him were Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabite.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Accounts of his sons and of the many oracles against him and of the rebuilding of the house of God are written in the Story of the Book of the Kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. 


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.


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content:
  And as soon as the royal power was firmly his, he killed his servants who had struck down the king his father.


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content:
  But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, “Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”


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content:
  Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by fathers’ houses under commanders of thousands and of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He mustered those twenty years old and upward, and found that they were 300,000 choice men, fit for war, able to handle spear and shield.


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content:
  But a man of God came to him and said, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel, with all these Ephraimites.


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  But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”


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content:
  Then Amaziah discharged the army that had come to him from Ephraim to go home again. And they became very angry with Judah and returned home in fierce anger.


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content:
  But Amaziah took courage and led out his people and went to the Valley of Salt and struck down 10,000 men of Seir.


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  The men of Judah captured another 10,000 alive and took them to the top of a rock and threw them down from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.


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content:
  But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 people in them and took much spoil.


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content:
  After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.


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content:
  Therefore the LORD was angry with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, who said to him, “Why have you sought the gods of a people who did not deliver their own people from your hand?”


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label: 2Ch
content:
  But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”


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content:
  Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us look one another in the face.”


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.


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content:
  You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”


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  But Amaziah would not listen, for it was of God, in order that he might give them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought the gods of Edom.


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content:
  So Joash king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced one another in battle at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.


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content:
  And Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem for 400 cubits, from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.


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  And he seized all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God, in the care of Obed-edom. He seized also the treasuries of the king’s house, also hostages, and he returned to Samaria.


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content:
  Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


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content:
  Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, from first to last, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?


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content:
  From the time when he turned away from the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.


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content:
  And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.


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content:
  Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


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content:
  He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.


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content:
  He went out and made war against the Philistines and broke through the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.


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content:
  God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal and against the Meunites.


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content:
  The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.


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  Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and fortified them.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And he built towers in the wilderness and cut out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Moreover, Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.


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  And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.


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content:
  In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.


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content:
  But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God.”


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content:
  Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the LORD had struck him.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place. 


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD according to all that his father Uzziah had done, except he did not enter the temple of the LORD. But the people still followed corrupt practices.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  He fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave him that year 100 talents of silver, and 10,000 cors of wheat and 10,000 of barley. The Ammonites paid him the same amount in the second and the third years.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and Ahaz his son reigned in his place. 


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book: 2 Chronicles
label: 2Ch
content:
  Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done,


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label: 2Ch
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  and he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Therefore the LORD his God gave him into the hand of the king of Syria, who defeated him and took captive a great number of his people and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with great force.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed 120,000 from Judah in one day, all of them men of valor, because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son and Azrikam the commander of the palace and Elkanah the next in authority to the king.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  The men of Israel took captive 200,000 of their relatives, women, sons, and daughters. They also took much spoil from them and brought the spoil to Samaria.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.


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  And now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. Have you not sins of your own against the LORD your God?


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  Now hear me, and send back the captives from your relatives whom you have taken, for the fierce wrath of the LORD is upon you.”


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Certain chiefs also of the men of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who were coming from the war


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  and said to them, “You shall not bring the captives in here, for you propose to bring upon us guilt against the LORD in addition to our present sins and guilt. For our guilt is already great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.”


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content:
  And the men who have been mentioned by name rose and took the captives, and with the spoil they clothed all who were naked among them. They clothed them, gave them sandals, provided them with food and drink, and anointed them, and carrying all the feeble among them on donkeys, they brought them to their kinsfolk at Jericho, the city of palm trees. Then they returned to Samaria.


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content:
  And the Philistines had made raids on the cities in the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  For the LORD humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had made Judah act sinfully and had been very unfaithful to the LORD.


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  For Ahaz took a portion from the house of the LORD and the house of the king and of the princes, and gave tribute to the king of Assyria, but it did not help him.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.


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  And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and he shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.


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  In every city of Judah he made high places to make offerings to other gods, provoking to anger the LORD, the God of his fathers.


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  Now the rest of his acts and all his ways, from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.


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  And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them.


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label: 2Ch
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  and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place.


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  For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs.


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  They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.


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label: 2Ch
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  For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;


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content:
  They gathered their brothers and consecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.


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  The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.


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  They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the LORD. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Then they went in to Hezekiah the king and said, “We have cleansed all the house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the table for the showbread and all its utensils.


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label: 2Ch
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  All the utensils that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he was faithless, we have made ready and consecrated, and behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.”


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  Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.


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  So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and threw it against the altar. And they slaughtered the rams, and their blood was thrown against the altar. And they slaughtered the lambs, and their blood was thrown against the altar.


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  Then the goats for the sin offering were brought to the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them,


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  and the priests slaughtered them and made a sin offering with their blood on the altar, to make atonement for all Israel. For the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.


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  And he stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the LORD through his prophets.


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  Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song to the LORD began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.


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  The whole assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded. All this continued until the burnt offering was finished.


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  When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him bowed themselves and worshiped.


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  And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the LORD with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.


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  Then Hezekiah said, “You have now consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come near; bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.” And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were of a willing heart brought burnt offerings.


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  The number of the burnt offerings that the assembly brought was 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs; all these were for a burnt offering to the LORD.


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  But the priests were too few and could not flay all the burnt offerings, so until other priests had consecrated themselves, their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was finished—for the Levites were more upright in heart than the priests in consecrating themselves.


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  Besides the great number of burnt offerings, there was the fat of the peace offerings, and there were the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the LORD was restored.


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  And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had provided for the people, for the thing came about suddenly. 


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  Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem to keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—


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  for they could not keep it at that time because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient number, nor had the people assembled in Jerusalem—and the plan seemed right to the king and all the assembly.


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  So they decreed to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come and keep the Passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it as often as prescribed.


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  So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.


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  Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were faithless to the LORD God of their fathers, so that he made them a desolation, as you see.


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  Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.


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  For if you return to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the LORD your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”


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  So the couriers went from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.


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  The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the LORD.


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  And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.


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  They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the brook Kidron.


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  And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.


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  They took their accustomed posts according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests threw the blood that they received from the hand of the Levites.


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  For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves. Therefore the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lamb for everyone who was not clean, to consecrate it to the LORD.


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  For a majority of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD pardon everyone


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  who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”


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  And the people of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness, and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with all their might to the LORD.


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  And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good skill in the service of the LORD. So they ate the food of the festival for seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers.


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  Then the whole assembly agreed together to keep the feast for another seven days. So they kept it for another seven days with gladness.


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  For Hezekiah king of Judah gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 7,000 sheep for offerings, and the princes gave the assembly 1,000 bulls and 10,000 sheep. And the priests consecrated themselves in great numbers.


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  The whole assembly of Judah, and the priests and the Levites, and the whole assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners who came out of the land of Israel, and the sojourners who lived in Judah, rejoiced.


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  So there was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.


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  Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy habitation in heaven. 


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  Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.


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  And Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and of the Levites, division by division, each according to his service, the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and peace offerings, to minister in the gates of the camp of the LORD and to give thanks and praise.


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  The contribution of the king from his own possessions was for the burnt offerings: the burnt offerings of morning and evening, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, the new moons, and the appointed feasts, as it is written in the Law of the LORD.


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  And he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion due to the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the Law of the LORD.


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  As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.


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  And the people of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of the dedicated things that had been dedicated to the LORD their God, and laid them in heaps.


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  Azariah the chief priest, who was of the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the LORD, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”


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  And they faithfully brought in the contributions, the tithes, and the dedicated things. The chief officer in charge of them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother as second,


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  while Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers assisting Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the chief officer of the house of God.


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  And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the east gate, was over the freewill offerings to God, to apportion the contribution reserved for the LORD and the most holy offerings.


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  Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah were faithfully assisting him in the cities of the priests, to distribute the portions to their brothers, old and young alike, by divisions,


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  except those enrolled by genealogy, males from three years old and upward—all who entered the house of the LORD as the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.


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  The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers’ houses; that of the Levites from twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.


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  They were enrolled with all their little children, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, the whole assembly, for they were faithful in keeping themselves holy.


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  And for the sons of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of common land belonging to their cities, there were men in the several cities who were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among the priests and to everyone among the Levites who was enrolled.


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  Thus Hezekiah did throughout all Judah, and he did what was good and right and faithful before the LORD his God.


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  And every work that he undertook in the service of the house of God and in accordance with the law and the commandments, seeking his God, he did with all his heart, and prospered. 


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  After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.


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  he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.


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  A great many people were gathered, and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”


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  He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it, and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.


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  And he set combat commanders over the people and gathered them together to him in the square at the gate of the city and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,


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  “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or dismayed before the king of Assyria and all the horde that is with him, for there are more with us than with him.


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  With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.


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  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria, who was besieging Lachish with all his forces, sent his servants to Jerusalem to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem, saying,


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  “Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, ‘On what are you trusting, that you endure the siege in Jerusalem?


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  Is not Hezekiah misleading you, that he may give you over to die by famine and by thirst, when he tells you, “The LORD our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?


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  Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, “Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices”?


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  Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands at all able to deliver their lands out of my hand?


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  Who among all the gods of those nations that my fathers devoted to destruction was able to deliver his people from my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you from my hand?


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  Now, therefore, do not let Hezekiah deceive you or mislead you in this fashion, and do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand!’”


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  And he wrote letters to cast contempt on the LORD, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, “Like the gods of the nations of the lands who have not delivered their people from my hands, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver his people from my hand.”


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  And they shouted it with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, in order that they might take the city.


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  And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.


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  Then Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this and cried to heaven.


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  And the LORD sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.


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  So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib king of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies, and he provided for them on every side.


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  And many brought gifts to the LORD to Jerusalem and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from that time onward.


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  In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the LORD, and he answered him and gave him a sign.


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  But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.


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  But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.


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  And Hezekiah had very great riches and honor, and he made for himself treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of costly vessels;


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  storehouses also for the yield of grain, wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds.


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  He likewise provided cities for himself, and flocks and herds in abundance, for God had given him very great possessions.


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  This same Hezekiah closed the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.


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  And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.


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  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.


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  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the sons of David, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his place. 


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  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.


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  For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.


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  And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”


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  And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.


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  And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,


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  and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.”


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content:
  Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.


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  And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.


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  He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.


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  Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.


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  And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.


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  He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.


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content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.


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content:
  And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.


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  So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.


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  And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.


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content:
  And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.


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  But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 


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  And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.


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  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.


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  And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.


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  And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around,


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  he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.


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content:
  Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had cleansed the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.


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content:
  They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had collected from Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin and from the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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  And they gave it to the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD. And the workmen who were working in the house of the LORD gave it for repairing and restoring the house.


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  They gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone, and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.


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content:
  And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,


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  were over the burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.


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content:
  While they were bringing out the money that had been brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given through Moses.


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content:
  Then Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the secretary, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD.” And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.


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  Shaphan brought the book to the king, and further reported to the king, “All that was committed to your servants they are doing.


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  They have emptied out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have given it into the hand of the overseers and the workmen.”


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  Then Shaphan the secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read from it before the king.


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  And the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,


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content:
  “Go, inquire of the LORD for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD, to do according to all that is written in this book.”


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  So Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter) and spoke to her to that effect.


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content:
  Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book that was read before the king of Judah.


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  Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands, therefore my wrath will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.


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  because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.


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  Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place and its inhabitants.’” And they brought back word to the king.


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  And the king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the Levites, all the people both great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.


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  And the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.


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  Then he made all who were present in Jerusalem and in Benjamin join in it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.


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  And Josiah took away all the abominations from all the territory that belonged to the people of Israel and made all who were present in Israel serve the LORD their God. All his days they did not turn away from following the LORD, the God of their fathers. 


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  Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.


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  He appointed the priests to their offices and encouraged them in the service of the house of the LORD.


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content:
  And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, “Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.


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  Prepare yourselves according to your fathers’ houses by your divisions, as prescribed in the writing of David king of Israel and the document of Solomon his son.


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  And stand in the Holy Place according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of your brothers the lay people, and according to the division of the Levites by fathers’ household.


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  And slaughter the Passover lamb, and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the LORD by Moses.”


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  Then Josiah contributed to the lay people, as Passover offerings for all who were present, lambs and young goats from the flock to the number of 30,000, and 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.


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  And his officials contributed willingly to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, the chief officers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings 2,600 Passover lambs and 300 bulls.


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  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings 5,000 lambs and young goats and 500 bulls.


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  When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.


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  And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests threw the blood that they received from them while the Levites flayed the sacrifices.


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  And they set aside the burnt offerings that they might distribute them according to the groupings of the fathers’ houses of the lay people, to offer to the LORD, as it is written in the Book of Moses. And so they did with the bulls.


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  And they roasted the Passover lamb with fire according to the rule; and they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in cauldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the lay people.


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  And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, because the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burnt offerings and the fat parts until night; so the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.


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content:
  The singers, the sons of Asaph, were in their place according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.


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  So all the service of the LORD was prepared that day, to keep the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD, according to the command of King Josiah.


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  And the people of Israel who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days.


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  No Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel had kept such a Passover as was kept by Josiah, and the priests and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


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  After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to meet him.


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  But he sent envoys to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, king of Judah? I am not coming against you this day, but against the house with which I am at war. And God has commanded me to hurry. Cease opposing God, who is with me, lest he destroy you.”


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  Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.


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  And the archers shot King Josiah. And the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”


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  So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.


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  Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah; and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a rule in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.


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  Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds according to what is written in the Law of the LORD,


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  and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. 


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  The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.


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  Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.


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  Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.


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  And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and carried him to Egypt.


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  Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.


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  Nebuchadnezzar also carried part of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.


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content:
  Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and the abominations that he did, and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.


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  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


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  In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the precious vessels of the house of the LORD, and made his brother Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.


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  He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the LORD.


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  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.


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content:
  The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.


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content:
  But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.


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content:
  Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.


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  And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.


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content:
  And they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem and burned all its palaces with fire and destroyed all its precious vessels.


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content:
  He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia,


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content:
  to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.


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label: 2Ch
content:
  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:


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content:
  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the LORD his God be with him. Let him go up.’” 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:


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content:
  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem.


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content:
  And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.


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content:
  Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.


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label: Ezra
content:
  Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.


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content:
  all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem. 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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label: Ezra
content:
  The sons of the gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, and the sons of Shobai, in all 139.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, though they could not prove their fathers’ houses or their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food, until there should be a priest to consult Urim and Thummim.


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label: Ezra
content:
  besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337, and they had 200 male and female singers.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Some of the heads of families, when they came to the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, made freewill offerings for the house of God, to erect it on its site.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  According to their ability they gave to the treasury of the work 61,000 darics of gold, 5,000 minas of silver, and 100 priests’ garments.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now the priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel in their towns. 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.


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label: Ezra
content:
  They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And they kept the Feast of Booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number according to the rule, as each day required,


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  and after that the regular burnt offerings, the offerings at the new moon and at all the appointed feasts of the LORD, and the offerings of everyone who made a freewill offering to the LORD.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together supervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.


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label: Ezra
content:
  And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,


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  so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away. 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the LORD, the God of Israel,


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ houses and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we alone will build to the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”


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  and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  In the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam and Mithredath and Tabeel and the rest of their associates wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the governors, the officials, the Persians, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,


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  and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  (This is a copy of the letter that they sent.) “To Artaxerxes the king: Your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River, send greeting. And now


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now be it known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and the royal revenue will be impaired.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now because we eat the salt of the palace and it is not fitting for us to witness the king’s dishonor, therefore we send and inform the king,


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  in order that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will find in the book of the records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that sedition was stirred up in it from of old. That was why this city was laid waste.


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content:
  We make known to the king that if this city is rebuilt and its walls finished, you will then have no possession in the province Beyond the River.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  The king sent an answer: “To Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and in the rest of the province Beyond the River, greeting. And now


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label: Ezra
content:
  And I made a decree, and search has been made, and it has been found that this city from of old has risen against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made in it.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Therefore make a decree that these men be made to cease, and that this city be not rebuilt, until a decree is made by me.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then, when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their associates, they went in haste to the Jews at Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then the work on the house of God that is in Jerusalem stopped, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak arose and began to rebuild the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and the prophets of God were with them, supporting them.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  At the same time Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: “Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report should reach Darius and then an answer be returned by letter concerning it.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River and Shethar-bozenai and his associates, the governors who were in the province Beyond the River, sent to Darius the king.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Be it known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God. It is being built with huge stones, and timber is laid in the walls. This work goes on diligently and prospers in their hands.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then we asked those elders and spoke to them thus: ‘Who gave you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?’


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  We also asked them their names, for your information, that we might write down the names of their leaders.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And this was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.


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content:
  But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.


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label: Ezra
content:
  However, in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree that this house of God should be rebuilt.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, these Cyrus the king took out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;


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content:
  and he said to him, “Take these vessels, go and put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt on its site.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God that is in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been in building, and it is not yet finished.’


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label: Ezra
content:
  Therefore, if it seems good to the king, let search be made in the royal archives there in Babylon, to see whether a decree was issued by Cyrus the king for the rebuilding of this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send us his pleasure in this matter.” 


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia, in the house of the archives where the documents were stored.


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label: Ezra
content:
  And in Ecbatana, the citadel that is in the province of Media, a scroll was found on which this was written: “A record.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king issued a decree: Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be rebuilt, the place where sacrifices were offered, and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its breadth sixty cubits,


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label: Ezra
content:
  with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the cost be paid from the royal treasury.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem and brought to Babylon, be restored and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. You shall put them in the house of God.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  “Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates the governors who are in the province Beyond the River, keep away.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site.


id: 05a4f407-f61a-494b-8ffe-b99bbb0f4a72
book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Moreover, I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail,


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.


id: 22cce47d-daae-44b4-9db9-55a0383bb426
book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and his house shall be made a dunghill.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  May the God who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  Then, according to the word sent by Darius the king, Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates did with all diligence what Darius the king had ordered.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And the elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. They finished their building by decree of the God of Israel and by decree of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia;


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And the people of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles, celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  They offered at the dedication of this house of God 100 bulls, 200 rams, 400 lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel 12 male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  And they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their divisions, for the service of God at Jerusalem, as it is written in the Book of Moses.


id: 2257c1e1-f04b-4f44-831b-5c8b41a8a927
book: Ezra
label: Ezra
content:
  For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were clean. So they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the returned exiles, for their fellow priests, and for themselves.


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book: Ezra
label: Ezra
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  It was eaten by the people of Israel who had returned from exile, and also by every one who had joined them and separated himself from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the LORD had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, so that he aided them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel. 


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  Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,


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  this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the LORD, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the LORD his God was on him.


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  And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel, and some of the priests and Levites, the singers and gatekeepers, and the temple servants.


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  For on the first day of the first month he began to go up from Babylonia, and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.


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  For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.


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  This is a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a man learned in matters of the commandments of the LORD and his statutes for Israel:


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  “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven. Peace. And now


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  I make a decree that anyone of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.


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  For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand,


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  and also to carry the silver and gold that the king and his counselors have freely offered to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,


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  with all the silver and gold that you shall find in the whole province of Babylonia, and with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests, vowed willingly for the house of their God that is in Jerusalem.


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  With this money, then, you shall with all diligence buy bulls, rams, and lambs, with their grain offerings and their drink offerings, and you shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God that is in Jerusalem.


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  Whatever seems good to you and your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do, according to the will of your God.


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  The vessels that have been given you for the service of the house of your God, you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem.


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  And whatever else is required for the house of your God, which it falls to you to provide, you may provide it out of the king’s treasury.


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  “And I, Artaxerxes the king, make a decree to all the treasurers in the province Beyond the River: Whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, requires of you, let it be done with all diligence,


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  up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.


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  Whatever is decreed by the God of heaven, let it be done in full for the house of the God of heaven, lest his wrath be against the realm of the king and his sons.


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  We also notify you that it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll on anyone of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, or other servants of this house of God.


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  “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.


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  Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”


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  Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem,


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  and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counselors, and before all the king’s mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me. 


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  These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:


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  Of the sons of Shecaniah, who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150 men.


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  Of the sons of Adonikam, those who came later, their names being Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah, and with them 60 men.


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  I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.


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  Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,


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  and sent them to Iddo, the leading man at the place Casiphia, telling them what to say to Iddo and his brothers and the temple servants at the place Casiphia, namely, to send us ministers for the house of our God.


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  And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi, son of Israel, namely Sherebiah with his sons and kinsmen, 18;


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  besides 220 of the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set apart to attend the Levites. These were all mentioned by name.


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  Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods.


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  For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.”


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  Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their kinsmen with them.


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  And I weighed out to them the silver and the gold and the vessels, the offering for the house of our God that the king and his counselors and his lords and all Israel there present had offered.


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  I weighed out into their hand 650 talents of silver, and silver vessels worth 200 talents, and 100 talents of gold,


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  And I said to them, “You are holy to the LORD, and the vessels are holy, and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.


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  Guard them and keep them until you weigh them before the chief priests and the Levites and the heads of fathers’ houses in Israel at Jerusalem, within the chambers of the house of the LORD.”


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  So the priests and the Levites took over the weight of the silver and the gold and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem, to the house of our God.


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  Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.


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  On the fourth day, within the house of our God, the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed into the hands of Meremoth the priest, son of Uriah, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.


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  At that time those who had come from captivity, the returned exiles, offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel, twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and as a sin offering twelve male goats. All this was a burnt offering to the LORD.


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  They also delivered the king’s commissions to the king’s satraps and to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and they aided the people and the house of God. 


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  After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


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  For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”


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  As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.


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  Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.


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  And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,


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  saying: “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.


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  From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.


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  But now for a brief moment favor has been shown by the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant and to give us a secure hold within his holy place, that our God may brighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our slavery.


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  For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem.


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  which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.


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  Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’


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  And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,


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  shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?


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  O LORD, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.” 


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  While Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children, gathered to him out of Israel, for the people wept bitterly.


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  And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.


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  Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.


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  Then Ezra arose and made the leading priests and Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do as had been said. So they took the oath.


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  Then Ezra withdrew from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib, where he spent the night, neither eating bread nor drinking water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.


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  And a proclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles that they should assemble at Jerusalem,


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  and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.


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  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled at Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. And all the people sat in the open square before the house of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the heavy rain.


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  And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.


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  Now then make confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”


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  But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.


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  Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”


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  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.


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  Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ houses, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter;


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  and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.


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  Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.


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  They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.


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  And of Israel: of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malchijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Hashabiah, and Benaiah.


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  Of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh.


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  The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,


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  that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem.


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  And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”


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  As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven.


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  And I said, “O LORD God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments,


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  let your ear be attentive and your eyes open, to hear the prayer of your servant that I now pray before you day and night for the people of Israel your servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Even I and my father’s house have sinned.


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  We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses.


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book: Nehemiah
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  Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,


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  but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’


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  They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.


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  O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king. 


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  In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.


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  And the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, seeing you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart.” Then I was very much afraid.


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  I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”


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  And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”


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content:
  And the king said to me (the queen sitting beside him), “How long will you be gone, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me when I had given him a time.


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  And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, let letters be given me to the governors of the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah,


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  and a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress of the temple, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall occupy.” And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me.


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  Then I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen.


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content:
  But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.


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  Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode.


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  I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.


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  Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass.


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  Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.


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  And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, and I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, and the rest who were to do the work.


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  Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.”


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  And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.


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  But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”


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  Then I replied to them, “The God of heaven will make us prosper, and we his servants will arise and build, but you have no portion or right or claim in Jerusalem.” 


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  Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel.


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  The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


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  And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired.


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  Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Gate of Yeshanah. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


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  And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, the seat of the governor of the province Beyond the River.


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  Next to them Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths, repaired. Next to him Hananiah, one of the perfumers, repaired, and they restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.


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  Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush the son of Hashabneiah repaired.


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content:
  Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens.


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  Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.


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  Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the Dung Gate.


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  Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.


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  And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.


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  After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.


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  After him the Levites repaired: Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah, repaired for his district.


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  Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.


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  After him Baruch the son of Zabbai repaired another section from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.


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  After him Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired another section from the door of the house of Eliashib to the end of the house of Eliashib.


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  After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah repaired beside his own house.


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  After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah to the buttress and to the corner.


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label: Neh
content:
  Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the buttress and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king at the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh


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  and the temple servants living on Ophel repaired to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.


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  After him the Tekoites repaired another section opposite the great projecting tower as far as the wall of Ophel.


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  After them Zadok the son of Immer repaired opposite his own house. After him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, repaired.


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content:
  After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah repaired opposite his chamber.


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  After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, opposite the Muster Gate, and to the upper chamber of the corner.


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  And between the upper chamber of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants repaired. 


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content:
  Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.


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content:
  And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”


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  Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”


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  Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives.


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  Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.


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  So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.


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content:
  In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”


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  And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”


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content:
  At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”


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  So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


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label: Neh
content:
  And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”


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content:
  When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.


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label: Neh
content:
  From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah,


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  who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.


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content:
  And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.


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content:
  And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another.


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  In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”


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content:
  So we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears from the break of dawn until the stars came out.


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content:
  I also said to the people at that time, “Let every man and his servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a guard for us by night and may labor by day.”


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  So neither I nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept his weapon at his right hand. 


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content:
  For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”


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content:
  There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”


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label: Neh
content:
  And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.


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content:
  Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”


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label: Neh
content:
  I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.” And I held a great assembly against them


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label: Neh
content:
  and said to them, “We, as far as we are able, have bought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations, but you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us!” They were silent and could not find a word to say.


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label: Neh
content:
  So I said, “The thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of our God to prevent the taunts of the nations our enemies?


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content:
  Moreover, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Let us abandon this exacting of interest.


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label: Neh
content:
  Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”


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label: Neh
content:
  Then they said, “We will restore these and require nothing from them. We will do as you say.” And I called the priests and made them swear to do as they had promised.


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label: Neh
content:
  I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.


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label: Neh
content:
  Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor.


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label: Neh
content:
  The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.


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content:
  I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.


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content:
  Moreover, there were at my table 150 men, Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.


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label: Neh
content:
  Now what was prepared at my expense for each day was one ox and six choice sheep and birds, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor, because the service was too heavy on this people.


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label: Neh
content:
  Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates),


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label: Neh
content:
  Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm.


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label: Neh
content:
  And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”


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label: Neh
content:
  In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king.


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content:
  And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.”


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label: Neh
content:
  Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”


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label: Neh
content:
  For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.”


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label: Neh
content:
  But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”


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label: Neh
content:
  And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.


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content:
  For this purpose he was hired, that I should be afraid and act in this way and sin, and so they could give me a bad name in order to taunt me.


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  Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.


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  And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.


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  Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.


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  For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.


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  Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid. 


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content:
  Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed,


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  I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many.


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  And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.”


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  Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:


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  These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.


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  They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:


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  The gatekeepers: the sons of Shallum, the sons of Ater, the sons of Talmon, the sons of Akkub, the sons of Hatita, the sons of Shobai, 138.


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  The following were those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they could not prove their fathers’ houses nor their descent, whether they belonged to Israel:


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  Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).


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  These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.


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content:
  The governor told them that they were not to partake of the most holy food until a priest with Urim and Thummim should arise.


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  besides their male and female servants, of whom there were 7,337. And they had 245 singers, male and female.


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  Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas of silver.


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  And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver.


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  And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests’ garments.


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  So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns. 


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content:
  And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel.


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label: Neh
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  So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.


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  And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.


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  And Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden platform that they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand, and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand.


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  And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood.


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  And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.


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label: Neh
content:
  Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.


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  They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.


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  And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.


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label: Neh
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  Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”


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  And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.


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label: Neh
content:
  On the second day the heads of fathers’ houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law.


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label: Neh
content:
  And they found it written in the Law that the LORD had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month,


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label: Neh
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  and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.”


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label: Neh
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  So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.


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label: Neh
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  And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing.


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  And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule. 


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  Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.


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label: Neh
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  And the Israelites separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.


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label: Neh
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  And they stood up in their place and read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day; for another quarter of it they made confession and worshiped the LORD their God.


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  On the stairs of the Levites stood Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani; and they cried with a loud voice to the LORD their God.


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content:
  Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the LORD your God from everlasting to everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


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content:
  “You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.


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  You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.


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  You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.


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  and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.


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  And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters.


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  By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.


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  You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments,


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  and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.


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  You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.


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  “But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.


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  They refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them.


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  Even when they had made for themselves a golden calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,


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  you in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go.


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  You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.


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  Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.


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  “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan.


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  You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.


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label: Neh
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  So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hand, with their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.


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  And they captured fortified cities and a rich land, and took possession of houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.


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label: Neh
content:
  “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.


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  Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.


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  But after they had rest they did evil again before you, and you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies, so that they had dominion over them. Yet when they turned and cried to you, you heard from heaven, and many times you delivered them according to your mercies.


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label: Neh
content:
  And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.


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  Many years you bore with them and warned them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.


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  Nevertheless, in your great mercies you did not make an end of them or forsake them, for you are a gracious and merciful God.


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  “Now, therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.


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  Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.


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label: Neh
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  Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.


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  Even in their own kingdom, and amid your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land that you set before them, they did not serve you or turn from their wicked works.


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label: Neh
content:
  Behold, we are slaves this day; in the land that you gave to our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its good gifts, behold, we are slaves.


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  And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.


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content:
  “Because of all this we make a firm covenant in writing; on the sealed document are the names of our princes, our Levites, and our priests. 


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label: Neh
content:
  “The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,


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  join with their brothers, their nobles, and enter into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law that was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and his rules and his statutes.


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label: Neh
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  And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  “We also take on ourselves the obligation to give yearly a third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:


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  for the showbread, the regular grain offering, the regular burnt offering, the Sabbaths, the new moons, the appointed feasts, the holy things, and the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


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label: Neh
content:
  We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the Law.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  We obligate ourselves to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of the LORD;


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label: Neh
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  also to bring to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God, the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks;


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label: Neh
content:
  and to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.


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label: Neh
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  And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive the tithes. And the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the chambers of the storehouse.


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label: Neh
content:
  For the people of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of grain, wine, and oil to the chambers, where the vessels of the sanctuary are, as well as the priests who minister, and the gatekeepers and the singers. We will not neglect the house of our God.” 


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label: Neh
content:
  Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten remained in the other towns.


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label: Neh
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  These are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem; but in the towns of Judah everyone lived on his property in their towns: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon’s servants.


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  And in Jerusalem lived certain of the sons of Judah and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, of the sons of Perez;


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  and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, son of Col-hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Joiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite.


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  And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah,


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  Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, ruler of the house of God,


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  and their brothers who did the work of the house, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malchijah,


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  and his brothers, heads of fathers’ houses, 242; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,


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  and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were over the outside work of the house of God;


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  and Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader of the praise, who gave thanks, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brothers; and Abda the son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.


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  And the rest of Israel, and of the priests and the Levites, were in all the towns of Judah, every one in his inheritance.


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  The overseer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over the work of the house of God.


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  For there was a command from the king concerning them, and a fixed provision for the singers, as every day required.


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  And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the sons of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king’s side in all matters concerning the people.


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  And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,


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  Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.


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label: Neh
content:
  These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


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  Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


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  And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who with his brothers was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving.


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  And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim the father of Eliashib, Eliashib the father of Joiada,


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  And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers’ houses: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


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  In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers’ houses; so too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian.


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  As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers’ houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.


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  And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers who stood opposite them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, watch by watch.


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content:
  Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storehouses of the gates.


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  These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.


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  And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.


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  And the sons of the singers gathered together from the district surrounding Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites;


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  also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.


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  And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and they purified the people and the gates and the wall.


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  Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate.


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  and certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph;


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  and his relatives, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God. And Ezra the scribe went before them.


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  At the Fountain Gate they went up straight before them by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, to the Water Gate on the east.


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  The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people, on the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, to the Broad Wall,


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  and above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.


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  So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God, and I and half of the officials with me;


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  and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;


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  and Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malchijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader.


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label: Neh
content:
  And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.


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label: Neh
content:
  On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.


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  And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.


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label: Neh
content:
  For long ago in the days of David and Asaph there were directors of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.


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label: Neh
content:
  And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily portions for the singers and the gatekeepers; and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron. 


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content:
  On that day they read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,


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label: Neh
content:
  for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing.


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content:
  Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah,


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content:
  prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.


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content:
  While this was taking place, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. And after some time I asked leave of the king


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  and came to Jerusalem, and I then discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, preparing for him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.


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  Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.


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  I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.


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label: Neh
content:
  So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations.


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label: Neh
content:
  And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and as their assistant Hanan the son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered reliable, and their duty was to distribute to their brothers.


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label: Neh
content:
  Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.


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label: Neh
content:
  Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”


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label: Neh
content:
  As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.


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label: Neh
content:
  Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.


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label: Neh
content:
  And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.


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label: Neh
content:
  And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.


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label: Neh
content:
  Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.


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label: Neh
content:
  Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me.


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book: Nehemiah
label: Neh
content:
  Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.


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label: Neh
content:
  Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work;


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label: Neh
content:
  and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good. 


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label: Est
content:
  in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,


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content:
  while he showed the riches of his royal glory and the splendor and pomp of his greatness for many days, 180 days.


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content:
  And when these days were completed, the king gave for all the people present in Susa the citadel, both great and small, a feast lasting for seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.


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  There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.


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content:
  Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king.


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label: Est
content:
  And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.” For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.


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content:
  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,


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  to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.


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content:
  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.


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content:
  Then the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for this was the king’s procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,


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label: Est
content:
  the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom):


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label: Est
content:
  “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”


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label: Est
content:
  Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.


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label: Est
content:
  For the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.’


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label: Est
content:
  This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s behavior will say the same to all the king’s officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.


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label: Est
content:
  If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.


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label: Est
content:
  So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”


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book: Esther
label: Est
content:
  He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, that every man be master in his own household and speak according to the language of his people. 


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label: Est
content:
  After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.


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label: Est
content:
  Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.


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label: Est
content:
  And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in Susa the citadel, under custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women. Let their cosmetics be given them.


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label: Est
content:
  And let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” This pleased the king, and he did so.


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  Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite,


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  who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away.


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  He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.


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  So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women.


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  And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.


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  Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known.


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  And every day Mordecai walked in front of the court of the harem to learn how Esther was and what was happening to her.


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  Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—


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  when the young woman went in to the king in this way, she was given whatever she desired to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.


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  In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.


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  When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.


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  And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,


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  the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.


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  Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.


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  Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.


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  Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him.


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  In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.


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  And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.


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  When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king. 


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  After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.


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  And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage.


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  Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”


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  And when they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.


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  But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.


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  In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


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  Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.


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  If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”


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  So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.


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  And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”


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  Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.


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  Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.


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  A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.


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  The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was thrown into confusion. 


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  When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.


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  He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.


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  And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.


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  When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.


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  Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.


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  and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.


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  Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her and command her to go to the king to beg his favor and plead with him on behalf of her people.


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  “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”


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  Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.


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  For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”


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  “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”


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  On the third day Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, in front of the king’s quarters, while the king was sitting on his royal throne inside the throne room opposite the entrance to the palace.


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  And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.


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  And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.”


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  And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a feast that I have prepared for the king.”


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  Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, so that we may do as Esther has asked.” So the king and Haman came to the feast that Esther had prepared.


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  And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, “What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”


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  If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”


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  And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.


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  Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.


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  And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.


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  Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.


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  Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made. 


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  On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.


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  And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.


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  And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” The king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”


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  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


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  And the king’s young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”


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  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”


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  let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.


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  And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”


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  Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned.”


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  So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”


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  Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.


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  And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”


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  While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared. 


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  And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, “What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.”


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  Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.


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  For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”


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  And Esther said, “A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.


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  And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king.


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  And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.


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  Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”


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  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated. 


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  On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.


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  And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.


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  Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.


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  And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.


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  For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”


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  Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.


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  But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”


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  The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.


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  And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud,


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  saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods,


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  on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.


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  A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies.


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  So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses that were used in the king’s service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.


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  Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.


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  And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them. 


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  Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.


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  The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.


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  All the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal agents also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.


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  For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.


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  The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.


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  the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they laid no hand on the plunder.


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  And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”


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  And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”


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  So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.


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  The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.


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  Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder.


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  This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.


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  But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.


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  Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.


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  And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,


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  obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,


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  as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.


id: 21084769-afd2-4548-afdf-e05e1ed35b87
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  For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.


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  But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.


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  Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,


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  the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,


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  that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.


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  Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.


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  Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, in words of peace and truth,


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  that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther obligated them, and as they had obligated themselves and their offspring, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.


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  And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?


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  For Mordecai the Jew was second in rank to King Ahasuerus, and he was great among the Jews and popular with the multitude of his brothers, for he sought the welfare of his people and spoke peace to all his people. 


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.


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  He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.


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  His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.


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  And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus Job did continually.


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label: Job
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  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.


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label: Job
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  The LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”


id: 2e96182a-3954-4543-a6cb-f104a01ac118
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label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?”


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  Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.


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label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.


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  Now there was a day when his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,


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  and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,


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  and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


id: 93bf5fcd-2ce4-4bff-8ad6-b4ece75a86a0
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label: Job
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  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


id: d8130295-f6f9-4f41-ab6b-88dd115a140d
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label: Job
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  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The Chaldeans formed three groups and made a raid on the camels and took them and struck down the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


id: bca3d1e5-4fea-4efc-92eb-485be4037b9d
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  While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,


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  and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”


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label: Job
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  And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”


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label: Job
content:
  Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD.


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label: Job
content:
  And the LORD said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.”


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label: Job
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  And the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you incited me against him to destroy him without reason.”


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label: Job
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  Then Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.


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label: Job
content:
  So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.


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label: Job
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  But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.


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label: Job
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  Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him.


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label: Job
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  And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.


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label: Job
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  And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great. 


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label: Job
content:
  Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.


id: e5e9b9c3-6a4c-4381-b33b-807c75118115
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label: Job
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  That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.


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label: Job
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  Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,


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label: Job
content:
  It stood still, but I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; there was silence, then I heard a voice:


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  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.


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label: Job
content:
  His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.


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label: Job
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  The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.


id: 8f324de8-0de8-403b-8a61-8ed3049f12b7
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label: Job
content:
  He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.


id: 8cc5893f-2c2c-4d62-9985-adb8c65b9acc
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.


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label: Job
content:
  For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.


id: f4031b70-b96c-48c2-9dab-bf9d20d5f3f9
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label: Job
content:
  You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.


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label: Job
content:
  For the arrows of the Almighty are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.


id: 652a5ff9-13de-472a-b9a2-408fda4277f9
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label: Job
content:
  Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?


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label: Job
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  This would be my comfort; I would even exult in pain unsparing, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.


id: f7b350d5-8a41-4008-8df4-0f23cfc8561c
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label: Job
content:
  When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise?’ But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.


id: e64c9b2b-45a9-46e4-9c1f-2bd617cf5195
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label: Job
content:
  “Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.


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label: Job
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  If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of mankind? Why have you made me your mark? Why have I become a burden to you?


id: 913aeb9c-bdd4-4040-ab8a-8c7df48b8485
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label: Job
content:
  Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.” 


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label: Job
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  If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression.


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label: Job
content:
  if you are pure and upright, surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.


id: e9df8c44-b778-407c-8d12-b4532f4ba422
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label: Job
content:
  If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?


id: d5ad2221-7ce6-40a7-a135-594e0cda276d
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label: Job
content:
  Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.


id: 9e996959-0501-4b67-8627-510ee472932f
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?


id: 7a71db7e-0a9c-462e-8794-ed34073d59de
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label: Job
content:
  “I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.


id: b2567e88-b7a9-4c19-9079-9bb5749acc65
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label: Job
content:
  Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?


id: 6c10c523-04df-4c8a-a1ed-e06011cc2248
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label: Job
content:
  If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.


id: 8b3908fb-3df5-48d9-88e0-f808842d6515
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label: Job
content:
  You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.


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label: Job
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  the land of gloom like thick darkness, like deep shadow without any order, where light is as thick darkness.” 


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label: Job
content:
  and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.


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label: Job
content:
  And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.


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label: Job
content:
  But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.” 


id: f40bd8f8-9a51-4434-b5b1-eb800ad121b7
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label: Job
content:
  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?


id: a26ca355-fcf7-4694-969c-a8f3bcb31520
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label: Job
content:
  I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.


id: 1c4b920b-90a6-491c-adc3-710debc8dff5
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label: Job
content:
  In the thought of one who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; it is ready for those whose feet slip.


id: bc892440-a649-4c97-8c31-9b98eaa3b133
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label: Job
content:
  The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, who bring their god in their hand.


id: 23f074ac-e3a1-4191-91c2-a3c543be4867
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth and makes them wander in a trackless waste.


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label: Job
content:
  Since his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass,


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label: Job
content:
  “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots will not cease.


id: 40ec4437-9251-4a14-9969-96c5bfc6470c
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label: Job
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  so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.


id: fd02a701-51ce-4905-a899-8df4a2feca2a
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!


id: 4cdc53de-f7d3-448f-b57d-82beb95d246f
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my service I would wait, till my renewal should come.


id: 04e53c9e-7cd0-48f5-8ff8-3201feb985b9
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.


id: c4fb47ae-2e53-4e08-a6db-e52b491216dd
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The wicked man writhes in pain all his days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.


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label: Job
content:
  He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at his hand;


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label: Job
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  and has lived in desolate cities, in houses that none should inhabit, which were ready to become heaps of ruins;


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label: Job
content:
  he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;


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label: Job
content:
  he will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoots, and by the breath of his mouth he will depart.


id: 422ec994-d71c-4ef3-b50a-bbc6656b5148
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label: Job
content:
  I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you.


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label: Job
content:
  And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me, and my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.


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label: Job
content:
  He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.


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label: Job
content:
  Men have gaped at me with their mouth; they have struck me insolently on the cheek; they mass themselves together against me.


id: b99a42f6-a44b-4dfe-88e6-6989d377e1db
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label: Job
content:
  I was at ease, and he broke me apart; he seized me by the neck and dashed me to pieces; he set me up as his target;


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label: Job
content:
  his archers surround me. He slashes open my kidneys and does not spare; he pours out my gall on the ground.


id: 8864ec83-1448-4b24-8081-f6985925bcde
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label: Job
content:
  He who informs against his friends to get a share of their property— the eyes of his children will fail.


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?


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label: Job
content:
  His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.


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label: Job
content:
  The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.


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label: Job
content:
  be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” 


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label: Job
content:
  He will give back the fruit of his toil and will not swallow it down; from the profit of his trading he will get no enjoyment.


id: 8a081afd-3202-4f43-87fa-dfed11c336a7
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label: Job
content:
  “Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.


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label: Job
content:
  In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress; the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.


id: 9fdf2307-e754-421f-b377-5afc041bd028
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  To fill his belly to the full, God will send his burning anger against him and rain it upon him into his body.


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label: Job
content:
  It is drawn forth and comes out of his body; the glittering point comes out of his gallbladder; terrors come upon him.


id: 49c42f53-c907-4c75-8669-b1610b528620
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label: Job
content:
  Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures; a fire not fanned will devour him; what is left in his tent will be consumed.


id: 8d20f3e2-c6a7-4e65-b3e4-f46de421dc93
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?


id: 6e1adf9d-c365-4273-acc2-39906744a9be
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label: Job
content:
  You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.


id: 51ee8542-d3c6-4186-ac1a-f0c031efb34d
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label: Job
content:
  The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.


id: 9119e468-0e3f-4aac-8f9e-db395d2f6d1a
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” 


id: e9118015-955c-472a-a458-2af1f7f96af4
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?


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label: Job
content:
  He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” 


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label: Job
content:
  on the left hand when he is working, I do not behold him; he turns to the right hand, but I do not see him.


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label: Job
content:
  I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.


id: 0a46208c-2a4e-4e8a-8ff4-90d6749a2d04
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Why are not times of judgment kept by the Almighty, and why do those who know him never see his days?


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label: Job
content:
  Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert the poor go out to their toil, seeking game; the wasteland yields food for their children.


id: 23556bcb-da22-44a0-8882-116c13bea1da
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label: Job
content:
  (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast, and they take a pledge against the poor.)


id: 904571f1-cc4f-47d0-aa16-88e086b98487
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  From out of the city the dying groan, and the soul of the wounded cries for help; yet God charges no one with wrong.


id: 62ad11e2-a43c-4656-a09b-7d1a9abffb7f
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label: Job
content:
  “There are those who rebel against the light, who are not acquainted with its ways, and do not stay in its paths.


id: b9d96cf4-2f92-4ff5-88ec-dfab674f88a0
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label: Job
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  The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.


id: 548d9b82-c9c1-4bba-9252-d42a28bbde42
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label: Job
content:
  The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me’; and he veils his face.


id: ff879cfc-c03a-4e05-8396-0b6668200783
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label: Job
content:
  For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.


id: 8b718815-caf7-4c2f-b12b-f83cbc983e57
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “You say, ‘Swift are they on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the land; no treader turns toward their vineyards.


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label: Job
content:
  The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’


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label: Job
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  They are exalted a little while, and then are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like the heads of grain.


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label: Job
content:
  Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?” 


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label: Job
content:
  I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.


id: 6a383921-ea3e-491f-9d71-b5498efc69f6
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty:


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness.


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label: Job
content:
  He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.


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label: Job
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  He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’” 


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The blessing of him who was about to perish came upon me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.


id: 143e02dc-affa-462b-8af0-5f45eda0c497
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners. 


id: 1dd5451f-5249-4324-bbfa-17587488d4cf
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.


id: 962d1778-613f-4b81-9359-aa4c093500dc
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.


id: 10ff5cd1-bfcd-411d-b002-0c66a1c2f744
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.


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label: Job
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  if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,


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label: Job
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  for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase.


id: ecdc6ea4-4abe-4a5e-aba5-3becc6dca9f7
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label: Job
content:
  “If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me,


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label: Job
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  (for from my youth the fatherless grew up with me as with a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow),


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label: Job
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  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges, for I would have been false to God above.


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label: Job
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  because I stood in great fear of the multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—


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label: Job
content:
  Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.


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label: Job
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  He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong.


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label: Job
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  And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.


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label: Job
content:
  “Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.


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label: Job
content:
  I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.


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label: Job
content:
  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,


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label: Job
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  If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him,


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label: Job
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  and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom;


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label: Job
content:
  then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.


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label: Job
content:
  in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’


id: 872048df-c46c-4911-9827-7f1c9c2ae8e4
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding: far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.


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label: Job
content:
  For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.


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label: Job
content:
  who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?


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label: Job
content:
  In a moment they die; at midnight the people are shaken and pass away, and the mighty are taken away by no human hand.


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label: Job
content:
  When he is quiet, who can condemn? When he hides his face, who can behold him, whether it be a nation or a man?—


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.


id: 55581ef2-34f6-4ae8-849e-ec325ecd7255
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.” 


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label: Job
content:
  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?


id: 9c1e62bb-fe3c-476c-b148-7502f95b4827
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label: Job
content:
  “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.


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label: Job
content:
  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!


id: 73984611-63a9-41ed-a022-db1f6ccf6ca3
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label: Job
content:
  He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.


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label: Job
content:
  If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasantness.


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label: Job
content:
  He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.


id: b81f2f1a-494a-4f01-a44c-524e377e2d43
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label: Job
content:
  After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.


id: 238a81b7-7728-4d67-9cc1-58c3d90a0c2b
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label: Job
content:
  They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.


id: 9b727e0a-3cce-4a93-b55c-205f18c7f656
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.


id: f09ee36d-77bb-48d0-839b-61697041466e
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label: Job
content:
  What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?


id: 06ba6e09-7678-4d1d-9f1c-fe2bf211470a
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Who provides for the raven its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and wander about for lack of food? 


id: 4ba45273-1da5-4486-840a-62a90e92e086
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  She deals cruelly with her young, as if they were not hers; though her labor be in vain, yet she has no fear,


id: a6172d39-078a-4045-86f4-cf92ac26873f
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  When the trumpet sounds, he says ‘Aha!’ He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.


id: 22f24af4-f931-4b0e-8e69-bfb0d2e4e5f1
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Behold, if the river is turbulent he is not frightened; he is confident though Jordan rushes against his mouth.


id: de0e860a-a492-48a8-8659-a17c8cf4d0bc
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.


id: a9c3aa65-6699-46a5-9596-b4e2adbb3166
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.


id: a2a82e59-1d13-427c-823e-93baecf85b1a
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.”


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book: Job
label: Job
content:
  So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did what the LORD had told them, and the LORD accepted Job’s prayer.


id: c0f86936-03e7-4b6a-9b04-c3adbc8197bf
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD restored the fortunes of Job, when he had prayed for his friends. And the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.


id: be175054-e2f6-4f04-abce-dcd35382772a
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.


id: 8a828e78-762b-49ef-9624-9e68a2ea4939
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. And he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.


id: 4ee7fd3f-0290-4b40-aff8-52abf9e298e4
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And he called the name of the first daughter Jemimah, and the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-happuch.


id: 4ef232bb-6a0d-4aed-83f4-4b9c5ed035ec
book: Job
label: Job
content:
  And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job’s daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.


id: 6a6857a3-82fe-4a8b-8453-21935811b69c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;


id: e3a556aa-7be8-4185-a7e1-1fc1b4afe741
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label: Ps
content:
  He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.


id: ca46b14b-c4ba-4aeb-9ae8-7d5143dc8df2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;


id: dd5b2f94-3b4a-4b13-94c9-4fe811961f57
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,


id: 86ed6a8e-d8fd-4ed7-9564-7c9ab009d40c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. 


id: cac772a2-8392-46f0-97ec-fa57cb731d8a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.


id: 89366915-6140-4700-a900-600b8a80d9fd
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!


id: f2e1877f-01fd-4d86-a891-64be10976644
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah


id: 0a893034-d710-43c8-96a2-690ec415fb80
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O LORD!”


id: be115f7d-6379-41f4-b417-1e61d3cfd2d0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.


id: 3903ba27-3c71-4eb3-b031-b3b8334ea0c4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.


id: f0b1889b-c2e4-4396-b37b-58a79184f89a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.


id: f96073db-7cd0-46b6-86c5-e2302dd9a1ac
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.


id: b09f52ff-87e0-40fe-8fa0-46a2db5186eb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.


id: f74109f4-c2e3-4a38-b6de-f9f247e432e6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. 


id: 3a971762-2b80-44e8-9b05-5ad849715d53
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah


id: a2b91d0a-e0fc-407e-bd61-07a26dfd1347
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.


id: 590001e7-73a8-4f98-ad25-4b4074b77cca
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.


id: 3658d9bf-c816-407d-b902-6444f867f16f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!


id: 81babae7-2873-4b4a-8f7e-b5158b02c5cc
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High. 


id: 412892e2-6744-411f-95db-1673c7087eb5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.


id: 64cc9f8d-669c-49bb-8b32-d2b13a770d9c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.


id: 0063b4cc-8c3e-40a8-941c-b701c9f897a9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,


id: d1fcbf99-950f-4aa2-b0ec-8f17a2d8d4d9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.


id: 6eca8374-a2e2-41f7-8502-8d6b9a21f448
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.


id: ed302390-27e2-4547-9346-7cd816e50d9c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.


id: 06d29031-f2f1-4ed6-b136-fbe11b05cc9c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be gracious to me, O LORD! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,


id: a85d37a9-8b69-4229-b3a4-e3a504fef684
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.


id: 1cf349e2-fb4e-448c-b4dc-77849bc4e5cf
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.


id: b9f3be45-62d4-4da7-aa32-f5ef92e403e7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah


id: ab9905db-9bd8-4791-90af-f1c845d86314
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.


id: e81de19e-643d-497f-8e2b-870fdb21cf46
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.


id: 8770be8e-6421-47e7-b851-3580431a0170
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.


id: 8b927a37-a6b4-4dc4-825b-82f942333125
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”


id: 74f2696d-f2bb-4ebf-9817-dc96a29ca618
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.


id: 09f7e4e3-66d8-451f-9b03-90c0b20bac8a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;


id: 557ca6ad-25e0-4f50-8d5e-33eb5039ab60
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.


id: 074ab4d2-52e8-4c13-8faf-5a69035d2f40
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.


id: fbca9c42-e69a-4e6b-8ea3-6cd484d87c62
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear


id: 3f42e7a5-d4a2-4582-a822-ba6832a19f32
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. 


id: 916cc2fd-4e06-4156-910a-e3df02853c55
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  for behold, the wicked bend the bow; they have fitted their arrow to the string to shoot in the dark at the upright in heart;


id: cad4b445-6917-479f-a32a-04d20493d32f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.


id: 08736b67-5052-4410-8692-141dfb7b2195
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.


id: 9341a8ad-0b21-491a-91f1-870548c05119
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.


id: c9145f8a-d22e-4d9d-98ea-3dfa911ecef1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”


id: 99d2ac98-23c7-42ff-85c4-669b1f295ef3
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.


id: 195d54b6-8b44-4b6d-a25d-2e5dfc7545be
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?


id: 3b49cb7c-ea72-4b49-87a7-7592c2fb4514
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.


id: a60ea830-a3ff-4eef-a49a-4104c0619f9f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.


id: 4ab1657e-ace7-41d0-a09b-23ac5780288a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.


id: 57b6a539-d166-4618-89a0-5bf71c56e6f6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the LORD?


id: 13723934-5583-4fd5-bf7a-f1eb5f0319ca
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 


id: 19870d4c-f066-4101-9424-894d0812da83
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;


id: 3370adff-9085-4796-9f3f-35c291d7afa1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; who swears to his own hurt and does not change;


id: 1ff25dda-27e3-4086-85a9-82610a6c19b1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who does not put out his money at interest and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. 


id: ec8cb66a-766e-4763-ad58-442f50390681
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips.


id: 128add4a-d2b6-45ce-8a2a-997ceabbb3e2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. 


id: d259e533-620b-4e72-8300-f7d6ed885246
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.


id: 0d22db5f-ca1d-4437-b36b-02f1e7b48c88
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.


id: f3df0bd6-48d7-4ac5-bff9-a968817ebf2f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.


id: ee9b1d06-ace0-451f-8c50-ecefa682ad4f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. 


id: 215edcf6-e35e-4d7b-b2bc-0fcce96542fc
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.


id: a2b30976-ac88-4fa9-bd44-5b1b15b9a05f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In my distress I called upon the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.


id: 195eae4c-e3f6-4bec-93dd-b60957e23303
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.


id: 215074ef-d7a4-44eb-ac24-aebabd171f1e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.


id: 633a31ca-67a0-48e1-a1f5-060bc0f3d2d6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.


id: c0f5782a-cdb8-430f-a3c3-ad4fb36baaa6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he rewarded me.


id: 1a4c349b-50a3-4cf0-9ded-6c3b2bab4018
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.


id: 2a6862b1-d6e4-405a-ab72-41d65df3978a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great.


id: 26cd5028-15e5-4c72-8c25-15914a495cc7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They cried for help, but there was none to save; they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.


id: faa38c01-bdea-4d29-b694-6abc5daa3bfc
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.


id: 1871d6b4-e218-436a-a716-e97ebe948b79
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who rescued me from my enemies; yes, you exalted me above those who rose against me; you delivered me from the man of violence.


id: 0a7b58cd-71bb-47c8-a7ba-5270bf8b33b6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. 


id: 23692ff7-ce83-449a-baef-5aafc0ae1e74
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,


id: fdd175b3-ba7c-43db-8bac-d9ab02bac2e5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.


id: c06894fb-a9e1-4ad0-9b4f-2ab5947f522a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.


id: 4c89d5cf-00ca-4255-ac03-1ddf4d03a53a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;


id: 77d37b85-83b1-42b4-87b8-c190ef4450d4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;


id: c049d839-76ca-4338-8792-238e1739e6e7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.


id: c8ecd8cc-dda8-4ae4-8762-e4d27de6ccd6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.


id: 8b57afe0-e35c-454c-b4af-3899e58146ae
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.


id: 939677dc-6d72-45e8-b90a-d51b1e19830e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. 


id: 211eda37-3b93-4d0a-9941-fe8eea2c96c2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the LORD fulfill all your petitions!


id: 9685ff29-8069-45ab-9dab-baa168efa926
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.


id: 37077a46-14aa-4bf1-bd56-d5e1833d3047
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.


id: b9f2631d-bdf8-48bc-b315-eb4ecbc8e7f2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.


id: 2e7f301b-0ebc-4263-a0d1-d497d685b0bc
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.


id: 7a112ae8-824b-469e-9156-d750c17cde01
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?


id: a35f794b-0f54-44e7-8b47-a1f5a3dae4ee
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;


id: 09793154-8ff3-4c9b-831e-002902b38474
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.


id: 6e0e3733-fadc-4f0c-8588-897ab2199299
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!


id: 641566a4-2eb9-41af-a224-97fa5584a5b9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.


id: 2d0f4703-8b06-45d1-890e-a5440d887bb4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him.


id: 92499fa7-4860-4d9b-9a46-5fb6f7f0a05f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the LORD! May your hearts live forever!


id: 04bd560b-b1e1-4eed-a754-42e0ae53b051
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.


id: ff386d86-699a-4a7f-837d-a88d090663dd
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.


id: 0aa1d2ee-8070-456b-b537-aefab5fb6697
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.


id: eae8ee95-ead0-4c8e-bff4-768f46a673e0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.


id: bfbfaec7-8735-42c5-872e-6b8d968afc2a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever. 


id: 2044a35c-b6ff-41fd-969d-6b3bc6aaf523
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.


id: 4c6a5ebd-4506-4d73-9352-21450e8567f1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous.


id: fb7c4421-1d44-4334-b83f-e9cec9e46837
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.


id: a0d765f2-22b4-42d0-9109-07895d2a5812
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!


id: 642518c0-e388-4df6-a23b-87f022f300ab
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.


id: 460966ff-f843-4b5b-ba9e-993a372828af
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.


id: a1485907-46f5-42c5-8792-d7a646eeef1a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?


id: a024da19-6530-435d-ab2a-510d4ef83940
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.


id: e2a058b5-0a8a-4f1b-b412-19b39d11ac13
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.


id: 0421958f-12f5-4e57-9cf7-d6f6988a3f92
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple.


id: 8b8a8d0f-bbd5-41c9-8523-f48d9c238883
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.


id: 73a52331-88ab-49db-acf7-f65e57484e52
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD.


id: 0815e1df-6981-4197-9833-eddab598904e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!


id: 6434edc4-73d8-4075-bf05-c42b3c2b6059
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.


id: 9ecfb023-2b1c-4e7d-aee5-570fb34420dc
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  To you, O LORD, I call; my rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if you be silent to me, I become like those who go down to the pit.


id: 0e9474d6-54de-435d-a55f-123052b840fb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.


id: 87d212be-e553-460f-a58b-3facbe54be39
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.


id: f911350b-fb75-4224-b726-eb8f3306274b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.


id: dad8e42f-d0f9-473a-bbf5-011bc51bf5ee
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.


id: 2fef5c54-3848-499c-9aec-031ee7010d5a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.


id: fbfa93e9-d9b8-482c-af19-7c3059ae202e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The voice of the LORD makes the deer give birth and strips the forests bare, and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”


id: 119586b0-3552-449d-a602-d9643c4e3182
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.


id: 45fdbe83-e268-4e7b-90e4-f663951af299
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.


id: f6734a1e-a501-4af8-b3a4-4439791d8bcf
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?


id: 35369b04-2647-4291-9533-d5fafb7bbee1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,


id: 1fb1d41e-9040-4853-965a-5c0463b4356f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! 


id: 9a1e1219-c85b-4920-aa9c-bd9910855699
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily! Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me!


id: 01117439-25bf-4ff3-9dee-6c7e8f750d27
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,


id: 1a8f3d81-4b01-4e49-b9c6-970aa013dfb8
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.


id: db2cc766-2de1-4054-86f9-35bcd7718cad
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.


id: 4fe53366-949e-4f47-bc58-954dc34af69e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me.


id: a95b313a-f6b6-41cd-8731-1c2b8996473e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.


id: 9aa6efac-4cee-486d-bac8-125767ac7e36
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.


id: 32c91081-5955-47bf-9f8b-42dd8ff201c9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!


id: 6e4ecd71-7bb2-453d-b456-30087c4b05fe
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.


id: 4b581fbb-a2e1-4971-b355-017c07ff1a9e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city.


id: 996190aa-267e-4d5e-9389-3a81059c9ade
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I had said in my alarm, “I am cut off from your sight.” But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.


id: f215e10c-197f-4c5d-806a-992e6ac7347a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.


id: 5838b8ff-3a2d-435d-a28a-b5274b656210
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.


id: d1d38561-c0e7-413f-9b89-5a77e47712b8
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah


id: e0e492ab-136d-4e66-a0f7-65a5797886c7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah


id: e81cf72e-af69-4956-b7f9-4b5ca27564d5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.


id: 4a39a08b-26ad-4024-af4d-f2837d33d70e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah


id: 03e60373-4feb-4edf-be97-f599bf4fd3ce
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.


id: d5b3bab4-1bd1-4f1d-b480-55349cf356d1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.


id: 7eaf1504-76f2-4791-940d-9c5f12216669
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!


id: 15aafc84-1c25-4fd7-ac86-2c09bbdcff7b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction!


id: 8e382780-429a-4c42-b7c2-05cd3f06a1f6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All my bones shall say, “O LORD, who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs him?”


id: 7f1383f1-4902-4956-8067-17a7c0c97e06
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I, when they were sick— I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.


id: 2c143e47-6974-4d6f-9fd9-b97cc4cde29f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother; as one who laments his mother, I bowed down in mourning.


id: 6d4ca782-c845-4e45-903a-ef1ac34ae084
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;


id: 655a1ccb-6127-4ad2-b416-dc6b93fb5067
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  How long, O Lord, will you look on? Rescue me from their destruction, my precious life from the lions!


id: 6fba3f64-fa35-481c-b484-a1baeea4be77
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.


id: 737709c1-3c49-45e8-9a8b-2714e79d294c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For they do not speak peace, but against those who are quiet in the land they devise words of deceit.


id: db0ac596-782e-4d31-a352-514917b28fea
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, our heart’s desire!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”


id: a5ea4269-a565-4528-85fd-13311def879e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let them be put to shame and disappointed altogether who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!


id: 70b7950c-edc3-4bcd-9370-41f5a127f8ef
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!”


id: 96645324-5ac5-4530-ab31-d703c9492cc7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.


id: 63d9f9f1-a241-4731-bb7e-f34b6a0a7b50
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD.


id: 64a04f48-5620-4779-b843-8be203abef20
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.


id: 6f9d5182-cfe9-45ab-abfd-d08f37a1d542
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart!


id: e2def14d-f35e-4533-b450-48a9a0b09a0e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!


id: 4e8d086e-1a04-4654-b852-5bd00852b4de
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there.


id: 9836310f-fca2-47bc-9ddc-6e162a2e4b2c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;


id: 33bf1c3b-ee38-45a3-851e-15e154db8f91
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish—like smoke they vanish away.


id: 22b52799-6b3c-4cb0-8971-ec71141467ac
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.


id: 392840a6-66c2-4bc6-98e7-75abbf5d93ec
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the LORD loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.


id: d353d377-3646-42ab-8f7f-44ac119a615e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Wait for the LORD and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.


id: c7aae44c-4dc9-4093-a472-fb40154c48b1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The LORD helps them and delivers them; he delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. 


id: 7419f2c1-a147-4a78-84fa-be2dd13557ba
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin.


id: b500ffa4-8977-43f5-b6cb-a6b5802db824
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.


id: ab29f112-954b-4f0e-a320-52bdd28cd6d0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”


id: adf04d23-7166-4c1a-93bb-9ac42d73ca35
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah


id: fb8bb78a-90d2-48fe-bf82-d25896857edb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!


id: e22e507d-7b1d-4778-8d45-031c3bb08948
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah


id: e770557a-4ed2-4f25-b78f-cd64569d98fa
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.


id: 7c8192a4-1806-40b4-b54d-34978f46705d
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.


id: c2b003c6-3c50-4b6f-92b1-c3906c861fb0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.


id: 12f0def3-b12e-4741-aadf-731e1f09ec8b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!


id: a25d8e85-49f4-4dfb-b8c4-b99d5a158047
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.


id: 7d0d43ca-bb3e-4266-8881-99bedd7863d4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.


id: fb4c8931-ac08-4fea-8dc3-eb374c032700
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.


id: db857d44-2ce9-4b67-9a8e-748b5da39006
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.


id: 1288b856-5c56-4c67-b67c-511ac19427c5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!


id: 8485b7c8-384f-433c-b3d4-d4ffbc8c7237
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.


id: e21564dc-bb6f-4eac-8cfe-08a6c3fb16f1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!


id: 5bc6514a-f8ca-4600-91bc-9ce2a7fe3df3
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the LORD!”


id: 551d1f4f-d255-4755-befb-38bef0c0e554
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God! 


id: dde0344e-723b-4eec-aa36-874fc267c00c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; you do not give him up to the will of his enemies.


id: ff4d38cd-3324-4fa5-a2db-aa5f8e97208f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers iniquity; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.


id: 67e3df46-7983-4805-a356-fcb06e23364b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”


id: 8524ac8d-f15b-48b2-9454-2180c52498dd
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.


id: 464365ef-14cd-4d6b-a6f8-29ded60388ff
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation


id: 75b2de47-3453-44e0-ac0f-55a7e22a421e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.


id: 5ece7e27-9c08-4824-949d-54bff09858b0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.


id: 5754f9c0-4dcb-4e45-9a16-d8b3338646b5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  By day the LORD commands his steadfast love, and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.


id: 252c6ec1-4fdd-4436-94bf-523a47550e6e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”


id: e6ac227f-6dd9-4372-b951-e51eaff1e725
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”


id: e48955c5-83c9-4eca-84fd-5e755e562fb0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. 


id: cd0ee41c-f9cf-42c3-a609-e252e08b45c3
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!


id: 6b05ad41-767d-4232-bf75-af374610664f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?


id: 383fe072-e241-4a2e-9ef7-1fc2a58d8aa9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!


id: 3f4660e6-49c0-4003-bac5-35a27c42b5ed
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you with the lyre, O God, my God.


id: ac6a7a92-04bb-4185-9541-6ed5111b8ef0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:


id: 7c186929-6368-4cdc-a27f-d5471f280ab4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free;


id: 0511aa4a-3b80-420f-8301-7ad37b7b6433
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them.


id: c77da74b-d721-4628-833b-15aff5af9cde
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.


id: 3a3a4868-866e-4046-9a95-e205f7db75f2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe.


id: 2b890131-f42f-4729-8837-36473e16bd1e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.


id: dbc8fe40-79ee-4850-8fa3-3e897eeaeb73
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!


id: d5b7c264-268f-4b38-b267-3e042ef1adf9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;


id: 92d1678a-9928-4e23-8abb-8b1f9c78b2b5
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;


id: 8af97d09-ff29-4fc1-bb46-6893c361e9aa
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.


id: 9ad2cde0-87ce-4df5-9e41-0c485170fa6a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever. 


id: b26cd2ca-acb8-4ecd-94aa-3699b9df6288
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,


id: 83fa8eb7-e916-47e7-a188-47496ced772f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.


id: 1eadea9e-c8b1-4548-b375-598b441b44e6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”


id: 9e0435f8-ff58-493b-a189-bb5c17faaa27
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted! 


id: ff0c5552-4b55-47ef-ada5-38320ca46187
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.


id: 239487b1-becd-4b4d-a0bb-2cb322eec9e1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah


id: 3d731231-1f64-4fe5-8b1c-344c873a387a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.


id: 099ab221-7786-45c0-a9ce-211c6eab8088
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label: Ps
content:
  For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.


id: 9fd57c8a-ddf5-4c6d-bcd3-ea7064f677e1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.


id: 727e4fb5-35cd-458c-9d3e-129fe3803bce
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah


id: 78408156-d81b-4c4c-a6a5-ae893c50141c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell.


id: 8ec70eee-7511-400a-9954-740d8ff96f22
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed —and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—


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book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.


id: 0bca85a4-9526-4531-b07c-e966b602c7e6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.


id: b171123f-4f5c-4ee3-8440-30288ede87c0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?


id: 5aa9a536-d5c4-4976-a6f0-1ab95b28a589
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.


id: 71003a85-354b-4aa5-abd6-19c9d162e461
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” 


id: 39e76f7d-8295-4bf6-92ab-b59cdc05dab1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.


id: 050736c8-32ad-4f42-99f4-3cc2c68a0f62
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.


id: 4ac1a09e-93c1-49e3-92a4-f64398ea80eb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.


id: 96008b68-8170-4f98-bffd-c87947f405eb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.


id: a20b2dd4-61ea-4b1a-926a-19126356240b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


id: 8cf3ff7e-e293-4397-8715-b8f5ba7565e6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar. 


id: 0f4d6a2a-9976-4f71-a091-4eebe66b0361
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah


id: b165757f-4e2f-49d6-95f1-ed71d2d439ca
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”


id: 9699a5aa-f235-4fa4-b64a-f39941be9597
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.


id: 678465d1-9946-49d2-b198-c7c84209324e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly. 


id: 36cfcb5d-324a-4583-a04f-622dc0b2a9bb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.


id: e4776eba-fa45-4757-b9cd-d566e1a5d71c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.


id: 8ea151fe-eec4-4545-bb5d-3ebfec3803eb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.


id: 54b90b14-1d74-427d-a90c-7af7c26a71e2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?


id: 68c16cd6-0511-4cde-9c28-b285dcefc93a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.


id: e4e04c73-8465-4fa2-89b9-bd1428e99266
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. 


id: 1339c70c-f9d1-4930-9482-b558c23ec142
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah


id: ae4a95d0-e471-4fe4-b829-96298b4fa8ab
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O LORD, for it is good.


id: 6380d34f-a506-4a10-8a27-fc83466daf02
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  because of the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they drop trouble upon me, and in anger they bear a grudge against me.


id: 03d1823f-7aa9-4ac4-a9be-d2cd30afa0fd
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him.


id: 82c7f3a6-f8ae-4c07-9559-1c4e88b22a4f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.


id: b2c312b5-ed3b-4f7b-8265-1fac8e1e347c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  God will give ear and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah because they do not change and do not fear God.


id: ca11085f-50c3-457e-be3e-b0786f5f9e8b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.


id: 4e67b047-5c07-4b36-8224-da0ff6c2437c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.


id: fdb54fbd-f9e6-435c-afce-f516531999eb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. 


id: 76b428b7-29e4-4662-bdba-eb8e2f93cb72
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. 


id: 4dd0d597-a496-49e3-b0b7-fce7a540c204
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.


id: 7967ab79-f673-471b-81da-247f76b7a971
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He will send from heaven and save me; he will put to shame him who tramples on me. Selah God will send out his steadfast love and his faithfulness!


id: 6c2370d5-328f-4a2b-9116-5dfd8541072a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.


id: 10ab25ec-d0fe-488c-9dab-d00693247aa7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down. They dug a pit in my way, but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah


id: 89559f03-d223-46b5-8975-f57e9a364da6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.


id: 7d946661-6b95-4450-951c-871ed5a4ac2c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.


id: 4ed54519-5b3b-4461-a6b3-31183142a637
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” 


id: 17bc234d-3683-4956-9c7a-91c879ef6770
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,


id: a1953736-1e43-42d0-9886-c5611eb3f8fa
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You, LORD God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah


id: dcbe4175-a731-46a5-8875-38f391e81137
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”


id: a692e171-eecc-40c0-af9b-9f5b7f984026
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!


id: 4ee2d0a3-54c5-4119-b398-b8bd5cd81ea9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,


id: c4c08c15-a052-4367-bb84-028594c2f418
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, that they may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah


id: e9d4ca58-8f48-48b8-bff2-e1da6635a697
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.


id: c95d4278-1808-4e26-92ff-3982e764c8ea
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. 


id: b80206f4-ed57-4565-bee3-37395dfa8457
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  God has spoken in his holiness: “With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.


id: 3f0ca1df-df81-4e80-ae86-95aa4ec323c6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I,


id: 2b3ed1df-b660-4a58-98ac-994f69610070
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah


id: f0668193-5f9d-4ed7-877a-5f63b3ecb137
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.


id: 0d575e20-c28c-4f00-90c5-010aabdea511
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.


id: 7ec8147f-3259-4751-aad4-4c4ffba38668
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  and that to you, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For you will render to a man according to his work. 


id: 357c0501-05c2-4645-b996-9c3494620ecb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.


id: b893d809-44d6-4b5a-8ea7-a19cb2e0f5a2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall exult, for the mouths of liars will be stopped. 


id: 1b6ec4cf-7061-4223-b502-76e74acd1222
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”


id: 902a7307-9e62-4d68-90f3-0e4e67d0e8e2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.


id: 344fb1f9-f5ad-4222-899b-d808bac2a4af
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.


id: 695f5c25-067b-41e6-bef3-46bb8097d417
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let the righteous one rejoice in the LORD and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart exult! 


id: 629ba605-8c0b-41b8-a839-d09dc4840255
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!


id: eb21b737-05bf-4941-817d-6ab2fc3b4b72
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas;


id: 2bdbed4d-30e9-42f1-8278-9d3259b489ee
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.


id: 5c74c0e8-cc1c-4f28-b517-ba721bd3568c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You visit the earth and water it; you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; you provide their grain, for so you have prepared it.


id: 26e20a07-480a-49e8-a676-4a245865893c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.


id: 30db66b1-e664-448b-a398-91da29c324ae
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy. 


id: 1abc8f2e-df18-481a-be07-e42cd2011633
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.


id: 5007cba3-b1f8-4cee-9986-b6fcd3f12e7c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,


id: 8a0f37bd-2155-4851-8997-542e2f7d4b8f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah


id: 09c9b409-a155-4c0d-a59a-d074b10f8808
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.


id: 559a74bf-a69f-4836-98ab-3a4ce8e35d5a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah


id: 19a67472-7d76-4230-b9d0-edcbb290d91d
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Selah


id: faed2bc5-d161-4d20-b64e-b00c953d7089
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!


id: 18eb272d-684f-4c21-b40e-8b337f80e5ef
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the LORD; exult before him!


id: edbf3bf8-f59c-47bc-b66e-b201e3cc10e0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.


id: a8373edf-4ae0-43ac-a9fd-f74ad634e1a2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.


id: 026639f9-8700-41f7-b3fb-120a743ae836
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.


id: 4dc2206c-a85f-4cd6-ae8f-8666b4f94170
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode, yes, where the LORD will dwell forever?


id: 4d4bc1bd-5fdd-4458-8ede-4ac65df811e3
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.


id: d08d913f-d747-4af7-8954-cf50e065051b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.


id: d2e926f4-5284-4a56-9c34-657165fb05bf
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,


id: 85545efe-8154-45bd-9af7-fd8d66ad5c83
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that you may strike your feet in their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe.”


id: 5cd1d045-48fe-4ea4-8cb9-1391b363294e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead, the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.


id: 352af274-66db-48ed-bd27-73146987f367
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute; scatter the peoples who delight in war.


id: 6ffd623e-82d3-4266-a73e-d02482ac8486
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.


id: 9cbf9c0e-0ac8-480c-a6fb-7d10525bf786
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Awesome is God from his sanctuary; the God of Israel—he is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God! 


id: ec58fce3-0149-4705-b9dc-67805f25d285
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.


id: fe4064ca-d34b-472a-8319-1cac319a46d7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?


id: 693c2995-59a7-4373-a152-b6eef8be27a8
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts; let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.


id: 0435aff7-b015-4d2a-8ea8-186aba718112
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.


id: 24eea30c-d5f5-42f7-8e44-1109a1d09d47
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.


id: d4517a31-26a8-4319-81c4-4ff5383fd597
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Reproaches have broken my heart, so that I am in despair. I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.


id: f6b731d7-9f5d-4e03-9ca3-57b12263c0a6
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded.


id: c2c99552-a0e6-41e4-8ea4-0bed1a3b1075
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah, and people shall dwell there and possess it;


id: 133b3112-c9df-4aa1-a289-32068b70d8aa
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!


id: 33ec3167-12bc-41aa-ae81-aaf83fdfe94c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!”


id: ac1f2d9e-3cb4-48cf-a609-651dc2d79519
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay! 


id: 6ae95a36-fbee-4b8c-85f4-22114b844b7f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.


id: 0498890e-a5eb-472f-b157-7bcc8ccd7e66
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Upon you I have leaned from before my birth; you are he who took me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.


id: db664211-8ece-4b2f-9f3c-e859c5accc26
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.


id: a514e9a4-b464-48fb-97b4-4c7c8dc36f23
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.


id: c21fa223-bf14-4df5-aa8a-5f9e1081a771
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.


id: b8fa5f36-d416-44b5-b0b4-0a4c806395e9
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.


id: 376e1181-b47b-46df-b0e5-98a64982af03
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you?


id: 0b3d98e7-fe78-426d-b2db-f07a9a2f3473
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.


id: 85e28077-7643-4249-8d10-17fda71275dd
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praises to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.


id: b990e400-9ba0-4875-9355-d33f2151e7f0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointed who sought to do me hurt. 


id: 788df514-ad0a-4de6-a30b-38aeee8fcae8
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor!


id: 7043000e-6c06-401a-a37e-9c3038e5128c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May the kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands render him tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!


id: 0c3311f2-1057-4c4a-833f-6acfc0f59265
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!


id: 3ea6d1e8-05b2-45f4-bc42-f5f1b5b607d0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May there be abundance of grain in the land; on the tops of the mountains may it wave; may its fruit be like Lebanon; and may people blossom in the cities like the grass of the field!


id: 417889c6-50e5-4d80-91a1-877b0eeb9582
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May people be blessed in him, all nations call him blessed!


id: 50f3e9bc-2f02-4c08-a371-9c4bfe8e7ffb
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.


id: c4f4b434-b376-4fcb-b9db-2fc6e5d0b2af
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. 


id: 6edb529e-ec7f-4608-a935-cd87f8a0f807
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.


id: caaf7651-d4e4-4295-93e5-ce6de18e152d
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.


id: 48fbb773-a9aa-47fc-ae94-23fb32fb3953
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.


id: 1ee9dde9-0fe7-4337-a631-211e78a3c552
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.


id: b7047738-1639-4f17-a068-0a82e1992593
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it from the fold of your garment and destroy them!


id: 845e2c5e-1a0f-4bf5-a4ae-c5206b602c0a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.


id: b3d1c226-a585-419f-afa7-2ae4a3a42819
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Have regard for the covenant, for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.


id: 490d7390-f931-44a4-abe5-50e1805c827e
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually! 


id: 41c47bb2-49d2-4f25-8416-e2d27d2842c3
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.


id: 9cdae832-3cc6-4a88-8e9d-92d8f71861ae
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.


id: c3faff0e-e8cf-4d58-8b13-d4b1bea4b11f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.


id: 603a7e2a-75e0-4439-8dda-3eac6f54f9d2
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Make your vows to the LORD your God and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,


id: a569bf56-c6cd-4a74-93f4-b02ffcff3e95
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.


id: 9aacde73-637d-4256-9b29-dab1fec79098
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:


id: 150ffc50-2336-4045-b4d7-d9c5184e1b7d
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.


id: 4e97ba2d-6694-4782-8a91-0ec0611950ee
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.


id: aa633de8-9f9d-4f87-894e-21e8ba4f5e49
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.


id: f5df3b69-e410-479e-a521-a1b3e23e206b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,


id: c8471440-8d5b-4feb-aa4c-377b470be4ec
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,


id: 20526120-309f-4737-90f1-3f5da742e1e0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;


id: 8590c7f6-6b28-4e9b-8376-8fa6f0f8b1b0
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.


id: 474deade-41b2-4270-bc47-89dca9d638b4
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?”


id: b20fc5c4-c205-4380-b30e-f968466c8168
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,


id: 24232f66-00c7-4d98-b20e-9f6fa11c5309
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.


id: 88e7c86a-7f20-4e69-b409-46cd938e4887
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.


id: 97399abb-f926-4f41-bcf6-2d0ff255e0da
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.


id: 14910988-ad4d-4d64-ae81-e050c7958a44
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.


id: fd7cda9e-9997-46fb-a958-2dcb2cbe174d
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.


id: 104231c0-e84d-413f-ac2a-24a8c55a552f
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.


id: e2976658-54ab-4214-875d-a58159c8da7a
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.


id: b33982ec-aab1-49bd-b5a6-32295b86c69b
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They have given the bodies of your servants to the birds of the heavens for food, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth.


id: 92884a02-d853-4c22-ac75-d760efca9b59
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.


id: 8c62aa5b-c59f-4f5b-bf0f-7cb9925d2a72
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call upon your name!


id: 39c1c4f9-8139-4655-a52d-f3256221ffef
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.


id: a1102bb3-3ad1-4e97-9be3-f7e66f36a2e7
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and atone for our sins, for your name’s sake!


id: 760cdc4a-335e-4941-a14e-a49beb2534e1
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes!


id: 90fbe4b0-4023-4837-a769-9902b86bf772
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!


id: e79715cd-a208-4632-8e5d-29ec99515bad
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise. 


id: 60b44713-a62c-44f3-aae4-c2e702852b80
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock. You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth.


id: 057c8abc-db05-4dd5-8ee0-f5987eb9428c
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!


id: fa47facc-490d-4d3d-b001-c64f574e0eab
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:


id: 158e1c30-36de-43f8-aca3-e3b211f7e871
book: Psalms
label: Ps
content:
  In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah


