Elisha<n id="1" /> went back and walked around in the house.<n id="2" /> Then he got up on the bed again<n id="3" /> and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

This is the list of David&#8217;s warriors:<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">Jashobeam, a Hacmonite, was head of the officers.<n id="2" /> He killed three hundred men with his spear in a single battle.<n id="3" />p>

The king had a fleet of large merchant ships<n id="1" /> manned by Huram&#8217;s men<n id="2" /> that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet<n id="3" /> came into port with cargoes of<n id="4" /> gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.<n id="5" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the first year of the reign of<n id="1" /> King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the promise he delivered through Jeremiah,<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> moved<n id="3" /> King Cyrus of Persia to issue a written decree throughout his kingdom.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">In the first<n id="2" /> year of King Cyrus of Persia, in order to fulfill the <sc>Lord&#8217;ssc> message<n id="3" /> spoken through<n id="4" /> Jeremiah,<n id="5" /> the <sc>Lordsc> stirred the mind<n id="6" /> of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated<n id="7" /> a proclamation<n id="8" /> throughout his entire kingdom, announcing in a written edict<n id="9" /> the following:<n id="10" />p>

But he replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You&#8217;re talking like one of the godless<n id="2" /> women would do! Should we receive<n id="3" /> what is good from God, and not also<n id="4" /> receive<n id="5" /> what is evil?&#8221;<n id="6" /> In all this Job did not sin by what he said.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">Carefully read the scroll of the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Not one of these creatures will be missing,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">none will lack a mate.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> has issued the decree,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and his own spirit gathers them.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Who has ever heard of such a thing?p> <p class="poetry">Who has ever seen this?p> <p class="poetry">Can a country<n id="1" /> be brought forth in one day?p> <p class="poetry">Can a nation be born in a single moment?p> <p class="poetry">Yet as soon as Zion goes into labor she gives birth to sons!p>

No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you;<n id="1" /> you were thrown out into the open field<n id="2" /> because you were detested on the day you were born.p>

From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet,<n id="1" /> and the width 1¾ feet;<n id="2" /> and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet,<n id="3" /> and the width 1¾ feet;

in the first year of his reign<n id="1" /> I, Daniel, came to understand from the sacred books<n id="2" /> that, according to the word of the <sc>LORDsc><n id="3" /> disclosed to the prophet Jeremiah, the years for the fulfilling of the desolation of Jerusalem<n id="4" /> were seventy in number.

Moreover, the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all says: &#8216;In just a little while<n id="1" /> I will once again shake the sky<n id="2" /> and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.

As for the stone<n id="1" /> I have set before Joshua &#8211; on the one stone there are seven eyes.<n id="2" /> I am about to engrave an inscription on it,&#8217; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all, &#8216;to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.<n id="3" />

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined<n id="1" /> with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the <sc>Lordsc> had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver<n id="2" /> and a gold ring.<n id="3" />p>

&#8220;All the servants of the king and the people of the king&#8217;s provinces know that there is only one law applicable<n id="1" /> to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court &#8211; that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared.<n id="2" /> Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!&#8221;p>