• The peoples courage melted away like water

    From John Peterson@byyosni_hhavcp@rozzls.zewddw.de to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 20:01:13 2026
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    Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that
    leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee,
    Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over
    So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king
    David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they
    anointed David king over David was thirty years old when he began to
    reign, and he reigned forty years. Blessed are ye, when men shall
    hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and
    shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of
    man's sake. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,
    because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye
    received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word
    of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. Then
    Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy
    sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at
    my petition, and my people at my request: For we are sold, I and my
    people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. Then Moses said
    unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be
    sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I
    will be glorified. And when he came into the house, he suffered no
    man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and
    the mother of the maiden. For my mouth shall speak truth; and
    wickedness is an abomination to my lips. Then said he, What have
    they seen in thine house? His own iniquities shall take the wicked
    himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. How is
    the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!

    He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he
    that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Hereby
    know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus
    Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that
    confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
    and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it
    should come; and even now already is it in the world. And the sons
    of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we
    dwell with thee is too strait for us. And he caused it to be
    proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king
    and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock,
    taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: But let man and
    beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let
    them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is
    in their hands. And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on
    them the names of the children of Israel: Six of their names on one
    stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone,
    according to their birth.

    Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat
    him unto his place. And they brought unto Solomon horses out of
    Egypt, and out of all lands. All things are full of labour; man
    cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear
    filled with hearing. But when he seeth his children, the work of
    mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and
    sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel.
    And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our
    way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children,
    till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and
    prayed. And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all
    that I have is thine. Let a man so account of us, as of the
    ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of Moreover it is
    required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. And they came
    unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond
    Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and
    all men come to him.
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