• Then JerubBaal son of Joash went home and settled down

    From August Smith@rbhs@bwoktc.rich to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 20:17:59 2026
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    And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an
    incurable disease. And he brought me to the inner court by the south
    gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
    And the little chambers thereof, and the posts thereof, and the
    arches thereof, according to these measures: and there were windows
    in it and in the arches thereof round about: it was fifty cubits
    long, and five and twenty cubits broad. It is as high as heaven;
    what canst thou do? It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the
    mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told
    these things unto the apostles. I have sent also unto you all my
    servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying,
    Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings,
    and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the
    land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not
    inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me. I will praise thee; for I
    am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and
    that my soul knoweth right well. For thus saith the LORD God of
    Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause
    all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And she went to
    enquire of the LORD. This is also vanity.

    So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us, them
    will we possess. And he wrote a letter after this manner: Claudius
    Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. Keep
    the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded
    thee. And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young
    lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men. Therefore
    thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again,
    and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious
    from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee;
    but return not thou unto them. For their mother hath played the
    harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said,
    I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my
    wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. And in Gibeon dwelt the
    father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife's name was Maachah, And his
    firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and
    Nadab, And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and And Mikloth begat
    Shimeam. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well
    nigh slipped.
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