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That the
land, which ye enter into to possess as an
heritage, is a
land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the
land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.
Moreover ye shall never seek to have peace with them, that ye may be strong, and eat the good things of the
land, and that ye may leave the inheritance of the
land unto your children for
evermore.
And
didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to
transgress thy law, and to
mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the
land.
Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus, one of the sons of Israel, called out, and said, O
Esdras, we have
sinned against the Lord God, we have married strange women of the nations of the
land, and now is all Israel
aloft.
And do his will, and separate
yourselves from the heathen of the
land, and from the strange women.
The son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi; which was
captive in the
land of the Medes, in the reign of Artexerxes king of the Persians.
Am not I even he that brought them out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage? but they have
provoked me unto wrath, and
despised my counsels.
I divided among you a fruitful
land, I cast out the
Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? saith the Lord.
Whose
land lieth in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes: even so also will I do unto them that hear me not, saith the
Almighty Lord.
Nevertheless as coming the
tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the
land shall be barren of faith.
And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly.
One land also shall ask another, and say, Is righteousness that maketh a man righteous gone through thee? And it shall say, No.
Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity?
And of all
lands of the whole world thou hast chosen thee one pit: and of all the flowers thereof one
lily:
Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.
Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my
land, and within my borders: for I have
sanctified them for me from the beginning.
And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own
land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away
captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another
land.
That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
Then was the
land, even the
land of
Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye
yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and
smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the
land thereof.
Also the Carmanians
raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the
land of the Assyrians.
And from the
land of the Assyrians shall the enemy
besiege them, and
consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and
dread, and
strife among their kings.
And in the passage they shall
rush on the idle city, and shall destroy some portion of thy
land, and
consume part of thy glory, and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed.
And shall
consume thee, and thy cities, thy
land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.
I
Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the
land of the Assyrians.
And when I was in mine own country, in the
land of Israel being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the temple of the
habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.
And that I never
polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the
land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near
kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and
pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.
Beware of all
whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father’s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall
inherit the
land.
Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land.
If ye turn to him with your whole heart, and with your whole mind, and deal uprightly before him, then will he turn unto you, and will not hide his face from you. Therefore see what he will do with you, and
confess him with your whole mouth, and praise the Lord of might, and
extol the
everlasting King. In the
land of my captivity do I praise him, and declare his might and majesty to a sinful nation. O ye sinners, turn and do justice before him: who can tell if he will accept you, and have mercy on you?
Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which
Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good
land: and Jerusalem shall be
desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be
desolate for a time;
And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.
And to all that were in Samaria and the cities thereof, and beyond Jordan unto Jerusalem, and Betane, and Chelus, and Kades, and the river of Egypt, and Taphnes, and Ramesse, and all the land of Gesem,
But all the inhabitants of the
land made light of the commandment of Nabuchodonosor king of the Assyrians, neither went they with him to the battle; for they were not afraid of him:
yea, he was before them as one man, and they sent away his ambassadors from them without effect, and with disgrace.
Therefore Nabuchodonosor was very
angry with all this country, and
sware by his throne and kingdom, that he would surely be
avenged upon all those coasts of
Cilicia, and Damascus, and Syria, and that he would
slay with the sword all the inhabitants of the
land of Moab, and the children of
Ammon, and all
Judea, and all that were in Egypt, till ye come to the borders of the two seas.
And destroyed Phud and Lud, and
spoiled all the children of Rasses, and the children of Israel, which were toward the wilderness at the south of the
land of the Chellians.
Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nabuchodonosor only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as god.
Then their God commanded them to depart from the place where they
sojourned, and to go into the
land of Chanaan: where they dwelt, and were increased with gold and silver, and with very much cattle.
But when a famine covered all the
land of Chanaan, they went down into Egypt, and
sojourned there, while they were
nourished, and became there a great multitude, so that one could not number their nation.
Then they
cried unto their God, and he
smote all the
land of Egypt with incurable plagues: so the Egyptians cast them out of their sight.
So they dwelt in the
land of the
Amorites, and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon, and passing over Jordan they possessed all the hill country.
But when they departed from the way which he appointed them, they were destroyed in many battles very
sore, and were led
captives into a
land that was not their’s, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
Then the children of
Esau went up with the children of
Ammon, and camped in the hill country over against Dothaim: and they sent some of them toward the south, and toward the east over against Ekrebel, which is near unto Chusi, that is upon the
brook Mochmur; and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain, and covered the face of the whole
land; and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude.
She was also of a goodly countenance, and very beautiful to behold: and her husband Manasses had left her gold, and silver, and menservants and maidservants, and cattle, and lands; and she remained upon them.
Of whose wickedness even to this day the waste
land that smoketh is a testimony, and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness: and a standing
pillar of salt is a monument of an unbelieving soul.
For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,
That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.
And at another time it burneth even in the midst of water above the power of fire, that it might destroy the fruits of an unjust land.
Thine
Almighty word
leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a
land of destruction,
As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood before, dry
land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without
impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:
For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they
sojourned in the strange
land, how the ground brought forth
flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
He that tilleth his
land shall increase his
heap: and he that pleaseth great men shall get
pardon for iniquity.
His blessing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it as a flood.
Therefore he
assured him by an oath, that he would
bless the nations in his seed, and that he would multiply him as the dust of the earth, and
exalt his seed as the stars, and cause them to
inherit from sea to sea, and from the river unto the utmost part of the
land.
Howbeit in the
land of the people he had no inheritance, neither had he any portion among the people: for the Lord himself is his portion and inheritance.
And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two were preserved to bring them in to the
heritage, even unto the
land that floweth with milk and honey.
The Lord gave strength also unto
Caleb, which remained with him unto his old age: so that he entered upon the high places of the
land, and his seed obtained it for an
heritage:
And their sins were multiplied exceedingly, that they were driven out of the land.
For all this the people
repented not, neither departed they from their sins, till they were
spoiled and carried out of their
land, and were scattered through all the earth: yet there remained a small people, and a ruler in the house of David:
At the same time when he received the vessels of the house of the Lord, that were carried out of the temple, to return them into the
land of Juda, the tenth day of the month
Sivan, namely, silver vessels, which Sedecias the son of Josias king of Jada had made,
After that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away Jechonias, and the princes, and the
captives, and the mighty men, and the people of the
land, from Jerusalem, and brought them unto Babylon.
Since the day that the Lord brought our forefathers out of the
land of Egypt, unto this present day, we have been
disobedient unto the Lord our God, and we have been
negligent in not hearing his voice.
Wherefore the evils
cleaved unto us, and the
curse, which the Lord appointed by Moses his servant at the time that he brought our fathers out of the
land of Egypt, to give us a
land that floweth with milk and honey, like as it is to see this day.
And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the
land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast
gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:
Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers.
I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of
mirth, and the voice of joy, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the
bride: and the whole
land shall be
desolate of inhabitants.
For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the
land of their
captivities they shall remember themselves.
And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,
And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished.
And I will make an
everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the
land that I have given them.
How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’
land, that thou art
waxen old in a strange country, that thou art
defiled with the dead,
For neither can they set up a king in the land, nor give rain unto men.
And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the
Macedonian, who came out of the
land of Chettiim, had
smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his
stead, the first over Greece,
Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.
And when he had taken all away, he went into his own
land, having made a great
massacre, and spoken very proudly.
The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the land,
Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that
forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the
land;
Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the
heritage of the
land.
And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the
dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the
land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;
And that he should place strangers in all their quarters, and divide their land by lot.
And with them he sent forty thousand
footmen, and seven thousand
horsemen, to go into the
land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.
And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them, took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp to
buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of the
land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.
They fled every one into the land of strangers.
Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to their brethren in the land of Galaad:
Then
Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great host, to the end they might come into the
land of
Judea.
Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying, Let us pass through your
land to go into our own country, and none shall do you any
hurt; we will only pass through on foot:
howbeit they would not open unto him.
And
Judas gathered together those that came behind, and
exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the
land of
Judea.
Afterward went
Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of
Esau in the
land toward the south, where he
smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.
From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
So
Judas turned to
Azotus in the
land of the Philistines, and when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images with fire, and
spoiled their cities, he returned into the
land of
Judea.
Moreover there came one who brought him
tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the
land of
Judea, were put to flight:
I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because they had no
victuals there to
endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the
land.