• Because they risked their lives to bring it to him he refused to drink it

    From Maeve Clark@twrsi_nnsnumu.icg@khprx.xn--fhbei to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 19:47:03 2026
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    And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need
    of them; and straightway he will send them. And if a woman shall put
    away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth
    adultery. And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of
    Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto
    him. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan,
    that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which
    dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. The people asked, and he brought
    quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He hath turned
    aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
    For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given;
    and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away
    from him. And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought
    in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known
    unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the
    interpretation of the thing: And I have heard of thee, that thou
    canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst
    read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof,
    thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about
    thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

    Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
    Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which
    have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not
    me? The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the
    wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The merchants of these
    things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the
    fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, And saying, Alas, alas,
    that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and
    scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

    And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now
    into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let
    me not fall into the hand of man. The way of the just is
    uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
    Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the
    ship, more than those things which were spoken by Paul. For the LORD
    heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners. And let the
    priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest
    the LORD break forth upon them. And the nation to whom they shall be
    in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come
    forth, and serve me in this place.

    Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith
    the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following
    the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I was with
    thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies
    out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the
    name of the great men that are in the earth. For he said, Surely
    they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their
    Saviour. And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and,
    behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon
    Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
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