When the new moon came the king sat down to eat his meal
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For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars
of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the
lowest and the middlemost from the ground. And Mordecai told him of
all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that
Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to
destroy them. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? All the
fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young,
and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. And he prepared great
provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them
away, and they went to their master. Doth not the ear try words?
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty
in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? Keep thee far from a
false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I
will not justify the wicked. Then certain philosophers of the
Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. Hearken unto me, O
house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which
are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And
even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry
you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will
deliver you. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. But he
said, Then bring meal.
Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! In his neck
remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. And
there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
great company. But I have used none of these things: neither have I
written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were
better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying
void. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they
gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Thy congregation hath dwelt
therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
Hast thou faith? Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken
the crown of thy head.
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