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The Song of Moses and Israel 15 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. 2 The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is…
1The great king Artaxerxes vnto the princes and gouernours of an hundreth and seuen and twenty prouinces, from India vnto Ethiopia, and vnto all our faithfull Subiects, greeting. 2Many, the more often they are honoured with the great bountie of their gracious princes, the more proud they are waxen, 3And endeauour to hurt not our…
1And upon the third day when she had ended her prayer, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel. 2And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder, and Saviour of all things, she took two maids with her. 3And upon the one she leaned as…
1Queene Esther also being in fear of death, resorted unto the Lord, 2And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish, & mourning: and instead of previous ointments, she covered her head with ashes, & doing, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled…
1The copy of the letters was this. The great king Artaxerxes, writeth these things to the princes, and gouernours that are vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia, in an hundred and seuen and twentie prouinces. 2After that I became Lord ouer many nations, and had dominion ouer the whole world, not lifted vp with presumption…
1And Mardocheus tooke his rest in the court with Gabatha, and Tharra, the two Eunuches of the king, and keepers of the palace. 2And he heard their deuices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands vpon Artaxerxes the king, and so he certified the king of them. 3Then…
1In the fourth yeere of the raigne of Ptolomeus, and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said hee was a priest and Leuite, and Ptolomeus his sonne brought this Epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the sonne of Ptolomeus, that was in Ierusalem, had interpreted it. 2In the second yeere of the…
5For I remember a dreame, which I sawe concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed. 6A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Esther, whō the King married and made Queene. 7And the two Dragons are I, and Aman. 8And the nations were…
1But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the sabbath day. 2Nevertheless the Jews that were compelled to go with him said, O destroy not so cruelly and barbarously, but give honour to that day, which he, that seeth…
1After three years was Judas informed, that Demetrius the son of Seleucus, having entered by the haven of Tripolis with a great power and navy, 2Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his protector. 3Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled himself wilfully in the times of their mingling…