INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_44","052_14_44","1MA","14","44","44","and that it should not be lawful for any of the people or of the priests to nullify any of these things, or to oppose the words that he should speak, or to gather an assembly in the country without him, or to be clothed in purple, or wear a buckle of gold; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_45","052_14_45","1MA","14","45","45","but whoever should do otherwise, or nullify any of these things, he will be liable to punishment.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_46","052_14_46","1MA","14","46","46","All the people consented to ordain for Simon that he should do according to these words. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_47","052_14_47","1MA","14","47","47","So Simon accepted this, and consented to be high priest, and to be captain and governor of the Jews and of the priests, and to be protector of all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_48","052_14_48","1MA","14","48","48","They commanded to put this writing on tablets of brass, and to set them up within the precinct of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M114_49","052_14_49","1MA","14","49","49","and moreover to put copies of them in the treasury, so that Simon and his sons might have them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_1","052_15_1","1MA","15","1","1","Antiochus son of Demetrius the king sent a letter from the islands of the sea to Simon the priest and governor of the Jews, and to all the nation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_2","052_15_2","1MA","15","2","2","Its contents follow: “King Antiochus to Simon the chief priest and governor, and to the nation of the Jews, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_3","052_15_3","1MA","15","3","3","Whereas certain troublemakers have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, but my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as it was before; and moreover I have raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared warships; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_4","052_15_4","1MA","15","4","4","moreover I plan to land in the country, that I may punish those who have destroyed our country, and those who have made many cities in the kingdom desolate; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_5","052_15_5","1MA","15","5","5","now therefore I confirm to you all the tax remissions which the kings who were before me remitted to you, and whatever gifts besides they remitted to you, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_6","052_15_6","1MA","15","6","6","and I permit you to coin money for your country with your own stamp, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_7","052_15_7","1MA","15","7","7","but that Jerusalem and the sanctuary should be free. All the weapons that you have prepared, and the strongholds that you have built, which you have in your possession, let them remain yours. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_8","052_15_8","1MA","15","8","8","Every debt owed to the king, and the things that will be owed to the king from henceforth and for evermore, let them be remitted to you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_9","052_15_9","1MA","15","9","9","Moreover, when we have established our kingdom, we will glorify you and your nation and the temple with great glory, so that your glory will be made manifest in all the earth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_10","052_15_10","1MA","15","10","10","In the one hundred seventy-fourth year, Antiochus went into the land of his fathers; and all the forces came together to him, so that there were few men with Tryphon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_11","052_15_11","1MA","15","11","11","King Antiochus pursued him, and he came, as he fled, to Dor, which is by the sea; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_12","052_15_12","1MA","15","12","12","for he knew that troubles had come upon him all at once, and that his forces had deserted him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_13","052_15_13","1MA","15","13","13","Antiochus encamped against Dor, and with him one hundred twenty thousand men of war and eight thousand cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_14","052_15_14","1MA","15","14","14","He surrounded the city, and the ships joined in the attack from the sea. He harassed the city by land and sea, and permitted no one to go out or in. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_15","052_15_15","1MA","15","15","15","Numenius and his company came from Rome, having letters to the kings and to the countries, in which were written these things: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_16","052_15_16","1MA","15","16","16","“Lucius, consul of the Romans, to King Ptolemy, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_17","052_15_17","1MA","15","17","17","The Jews’ ambassadors came to us as our friends and allies, to renew the old friendship and alliance, being sent from Simon the high priest, and from the people of the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_18","052_15_18","1MA","15","18","18","Moreover they brought a shield of gold weighing one thousand minas. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_19","052_15_19","1MA","15","19","19","It pleased us therefore to write to the kings and to the countries, that they should not seek their harm or fight against them, their cities, and their country, or be allies with those who fight against them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_20","052_15_20","1MA","15","20","20","Moreover, it seemed good to us to receive the shield from them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_21","052_15_21","1MA","15","21","21","If therefore any troublemakers have fled from their country to you, deliver them to Simon the high priest, that he may take vengeance on them according to their law.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_22","052_15_22","1MA","15","22","22","He wrote the same things to King Demetrius, to Attalus, to Arathes, to Arsaces, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_23","052_15_23","1MA","15","23","23","to all the countries, to Sampsames, to the Spartans, to Delos, to Myndos, to Sicyon, to Caria, to Samos, to Pamphylia, to Lycia, to Halicarnassus, to Rhodes, to Phaselis, to Cos, to Side, to Aradus, Gortyna, Cnidus, Cyprus, and Cyrene. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_24","052_15_24","1MA","15","24","24","They also wrote this copy to Simon the high priest. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_25","052_15_25","1MA","15","25","25","But King Antiochus encamped against Dor the second day, bringing his forces up to it continually, and making engines of war; and he shut up Tryphon from going in or out. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_26","052_15_26","1MA","15","26","26","Simon sent him two thousand chosen men to fight on his side, with silver, gold, and instruments of war in abundance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_27","052_15_27","1MA","15","27","27","He would not receive them, but nullified all the covenants which he had made with him before, and was estranged from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_28","052_15_28","1MA","15","28","28","He sent to him Athenobius, one of his friends, to confer with him, saying, “You hold possession of Joppa, Gazara, and the citadel that is in Jerusalem, cities of my kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_29","052_15_29","1MA","15","29","29","You have devastated their territory, and done great harm in the land, and control of many places in my kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_30","052_15_30","1MA","15","30","30","Now therefore hand over the cities which you have taken, and the tributes of the places which you have taken control of outside of the borders of Judea; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_31","052_15_31","1MA","15","31","31","or else give me for them five hundred talents of silver; and for the harm that you have done, and the tributes of the cities, another five hundred talents. Otherwise we will come and subdue you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_32","052_15_32","1MA","15","32","32","Athenobius, the king’s friend, came to Jerusalem. When he saw the glory of Simon, the cupboard of gold and silver vessels, and his great attendance, he was amazed. He reported to him the king’s words. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_33","052_15_33","1MA","15","33","33","Simon answered, and said to him, “We have not taken other men’s land nor do we have possession of that which belongs to others, but of the inheritance of our fathers. However, it had been in possession of our enemies wrongfully for a while. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_34","052_15_34","1MA","15","34","34","But we, having opportunity, firmly hold the inheritance of our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_35","052_15_35","1MA","15","35","35","As for Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm among the people throughout our country. We will give one hundred talents for them.” Athenobius didn’t answer even one word, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_36","052_15_36","1MA","15","36","36","but returned in a rage to the king, and reported to him these words, and the glory of Simon, and all that he had seen; and the king was exceedingly angry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_37","052_15_37","1MA","15","37","37","Meanwhile, Tryphon embarked on board a ship, and fled to Orthosia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_38","052_15_38","1MA","15","38","38","The king appointed Cendebaeus chief captain of the sea coast, and gave him troops of infantry and cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_39","052_15_39","1MA","15","39","39","He commanded him to encamp against Judea, and he commanded him to build up Kidron, and to fortify the gates, and that he should fight against the people; but the king pursued Tryphon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_40","052_15_40","1MA","15","40","40","So Cendebaeus came to Jamnia and began to provoke the people, and to invade Judea, and to take the people captive and kill them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M115_41","052_15_41","1MA","15","41","41","He built Kidron and stationed cavalry and infantry there, to the end that going out they might make raids on the highways of Judea, as the king had commanded him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_1","052_16_1","1MA","16","1","1","John went up from Gazara and told Simon his father what Cendebaeus was doing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_2","052_16_2","1MA","16","2","2","Simon called his two oldest sons, Judas and John, and said to them, “I and my brothers and my father’s house have fought the battles of Israel from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we have often delivered Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_3","052_16_3","1MA","16","3","3","But now I am old, and you moreover, by his mercy, are of a sufficient age. Take the place of me and my brother, and go out and fight for our nation; and let the help which is from heaven be with you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_4","052_16_4","1MA","16","4","4","He chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and cavalry, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_5","052_16_5","1MA","16","5","5","Rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army of infantry and cavalry came to meet them. There was a brook between them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_6","052_16_6","1MA","16","6","6","He encamped near them, he and his people. He saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first. When the men saw him, they passed over after him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_7","052_16_7","1MA","16","7","7","He divided the people, and placed the calvary in the midst of the infantry; but the enemies’ cavalry were exceedingly many. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_8","052_16_8","1MA","16","8","8","They sounded the trumpets; and Cendebaeus and his army were put to flight, and many of them fell wounded to death, but those who were left fled to the stronghold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_9","052_16_9","1MA","16","9","9","At that time Judas, John’s brother, was wounded; but John pursued after them until he came to Kidron, which Cendebaeus had built. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_10","052_16_10","1MA","16","10","10","They fled to the towers that are in the fields of Azotus; and he burned it with fire. About two thousand men men of them fell. Then he returned into Judea in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_11","052_16_11","1MA","16","11","11","Ptolemy the son of Abubus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_12","052_16_12","1MA","16","12","12","for he was the high priest’s son-in-law. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_13","052_16_13","1MA","16","13","13","His heart was lifted up, and he planned to make himself master of the country, and he made deceitful plans against Simon and his sons, to do away with them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_14","052_16_14","1MA","16","14","14","Now Simon was visiting the cities that were in the country, and attending to their needs. He went down to Jericho—himself with Mattathias and Judas his sons—in the one hundred seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_15","052_16_15","1MA","16","15","15","The son of Abubus received them deceitfully into the little stronghold that is called Dok, which he had built, and made them a great banquet, and hid men there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_16","052_16_16","1MA","16","16","16","When Simon and his sons had drunk freely, Ptolemy and his men rose up, took their weapons, rushed in against Simon in the banqueting place, and killed him, his two sons, and some of his servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_17","052_16_17","1MA","16","17","17","He committed a great iniquity, and repaid evil for good. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_18","052_16_18","1MA","16","18","18","Ptolemy wrote these things and sent to the king, that he should send him forces to aid him, and should deliver him their country and the cities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_19","052_16_19","1MA","16","19","19","He sent others to Gazara to do away with John. To the captains of thousands, he sent letters to come to him, that he might give them silver, gold, and gifts. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_20","052_16_20","1MA","16","20","20","He sent others to take possession of Jerusalem and the temple hill. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_21","052_16_21","1MA","16","21","21","One ran before to Gazara, and told John that his father and kindred had perished, and he has sent to kill you also. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_22","052_16_22","1MA","16","22","22","When he heard, he was greatly shocked. He seized the men who came to destroy him and killed them; for he perceived that they were seeking to destroy him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_23","052_16_23","1MA","16","23","23","And the rest of the acts of John and of his wars and of his valiant deeds which he did, and of the building of the walls which he built, and of his achievements, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M116_24","052_16_24","1MA","16","24","24","behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he was made high priest after his father. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_1","053_1_1","2MA","1","1","1","The kindred, the Jews who are in Jerusalem and those who are in the country of Judea, send greetings and good peace to the kindred, the Jews who are throughout Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_2","053_1_2","2MA","1","2","2","May God do good to you, and remember his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, his faithful servants, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_3","053_1_3","2MA","1","3","3","and give you all a heart to worship him and do his will with a strong heart and a willing soul. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_4","053_1_4","2MA","1","4","4","May God open your heart to his law and his statutes, and make peace, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_5","053_1_5","2MA","1","5","5","and listen to your requests, and be reconciled with you, and not forsake you in an evil time. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_6","053_1_6","2MA","1","6","6","Now we are praying for you here. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_7","053_1_7","2MA","1","7","7","In the reign of Demetrius, in the one hundred sixty-ninth year, we the Jews have already written to you in the suffering and in the distress that has come upon us in these years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and the kingdom, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_8","053_1_8","2MA","1","8","8","and set the gate on fire, and shed innocent blood. We prayed to the Lord, and were heard. We offered sacrifices and meal offerings. We lit the lamps. We set out the show bread. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_9","053_1_9","2MA","1","9","9","Now see that you keep the days of the feast of tabernacles in the month Chislev in the one hundred eighty-eighth year. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_10","053_1_10","2MA","1","10","10","The people of Jerusalem and those who are in Judea, with the senate and Judas, to Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s teacher, who is also of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews who are in Egypt, we send greetings and health. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_11","053_1_11","2MA","1","11","11","Having been saved by God out of great perils, as men arrayed against a king, we thank him greatly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_12","053_1_12","2MA","1","12","12","For he threw out into Persia those who fought against us in the holy city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_13","053_1_13","2MA","1","13","13","For when the prince had come there, with an army that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanaea by the treachery of Nanaea’s priests. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_14","053_1_14","2MA","1","14","14","For Antiochus, on the pretense that he would marry her, came into the place, he and his friends who were with him, that they might take a large part of the treasures as a dowry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_15","053_1_15","2MA","1","15","15","And when the priests of Nanaea’s temple had set the treasures out, and he had come there with a small company within the wall of the sacred precinct, they locked the temple when Antiochus had come in. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_16","053_1_16","2MA","1","16","16","Opening the secret door of the panelled ceiling, they threw stones and struck down the prince. They cut him and his company in pieces, and cut off their heads, and threw them to the people who were outside. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_17","053_1_17","2MA","1","17","17","Blessed be our God in all things, who handed over those who had committed impiety. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_18","053_1_18","2MA","1","18","18","Since we are now about to celebrate the purification of the temple in the month Chislev, on the twenty-fifth day, we thought it necessary to notify you, so that you may also keep a feast of tabernacles, and remember the fire which was given when Nehemiah offered sacrifices, after he had built both the temple and the altar. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_19","053_1_19","2MA","1","19","19","For indeed when our fathers were about to be led into the land of Persia, the godly priests of that time took some of the fire of the altar, and hid it secretly in the hollow of a well that was without water, where they made sure that the place was unknown to anyone. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_20","053_1_20","2MA","1","20","20","Now after many years, when it pleased God, Nehemiah, having received a charge from the king of Persia, sent in quest of the fire the descendants of the priests who hid it. When they declared to us that they had found no fire, but thick liquid, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_21","053_1_21","2MA","1","21","21","he commanded them to draw some of it out and bring it to him. When the sacrifices had been offered, Nehemiah commanded the priests to sprinkle with that liquid both the wood and the things laid on it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_22","053_1_22","2MA","1","22","22","When that was done and some time had passed, and the sun shone out, which before was hidden with clouds, a great blaze was kindled, so that all men marveled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_23","053_1_23","2MA","1","23","23","The priests made a prayer while the sacrifice was being consumed—both the priests and all the others. Jonathan led and the rest responded, as Nehemiah did. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_24","053_1_24","2MA","1","24","24","The prayer was like this: “O Lord, Lord God, the Creator of all things, who are awesome, strong, righteous, and merciful, who alone are King and gracious, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_25","053_1_25","2MA","1","25","25","who alone supply every need, who alone are righteous, almighty, and eternal, you who save Israel out of all evil, who chose the ancestors and sanctified them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_26","053_1_26","2MA","1","26","26","accept the sacrifice for all your people Israel, and preserve your own portion, and consecrate it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_27","053_1_27","2MA","1","27","27","Gather together our scattered people, set at liberty those who are in bondage among the heathen, look upon those who are despised and abhorred, and let the heathen know that you are our God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_28","053_1_28","2MA","1","28","28","Punish those who oppress us and in arrogance shamefully entreat us. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_29","053_1_29","2MA","1","29","29","Plant your people in your holy place, even as Moses said.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_30","053_1_30","2MA","1","30","30","Then the priests sang the hymns. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_31","053_1_31","2MA","1","31","31","As soon as the sacrifice was consumed, then Nehemiah commanded that the rest of the liquid be poured on large stones. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_32","053_1_32","2MA","1","32","32","When this was done, a flame was kindled; but when the light from the altar shone back, it went out. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_33","053_1_33","2MA","1","33","33","When the matter became known, and it was told the king of the Persians that, in the place where the priests who were led away had hid the fire, the liquid appeared which Nehemiah and those who were with him purified the sacrifice, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_34","053_1_34","2MA","1","34","34","then the king enclosed the place and made it sacred after he had investigated the matter. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_35","053_1_35","2MA","1","35","35","When the king would show favor to any, he would exchange many presents and give them some of this liquid. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M21_36","053_1_36","2MA","1","36","36","Nehemiah and those who were with him called this thing “Nephthar”, which is by interpretation, “Cleansing”; but most men call it Nephthai. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_1","053_2_1","2MA","2","1","1","It is also found in the records that Jeremiah the prophet commanded those who were carried away to take some of the fire, as has been mentioned, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_2","053_2_2","2MA","2","2","2","and how that the prophet charged those who were carried away, having given them the law, that they should not forget the statutes of the Lord or be led astray in their minds when they saw images of gold and silver, and their adornment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_3","053_2_3","2MA","2","3","3","With other such words exhorted he them, that the law should not depart from their hearts. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_4","053_2_4","2MA","2","4","4","It was in the writing that the prophet, being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should follow with him, when he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and saw God’s inheritance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_5","053_2_5","2MA","2","5","5","Jeremiah came and found a cave, he brought the tabernacle, the ark, and the altar of incense into it; then he sealed the entrance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_6","053_2_6","2MA","2","6","6","Some of those who followed with him came there that they might mark the way, and could not find it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_7","053_2_7","2MA","2","7","7","But when Jeremiah learned about that, he rebuked them, saying, “The place shall be unknown until God gathers the people together again and shows mercy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_8","053_2_8","2MA","2","8","8","Then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord shall be seen with the cloud, as it was also shown to Moses, also as Solomon implored that the place might be consecrated greatly, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_9","053_2_9","2MA","2","9","9","and it was also declared that he, having wisdom, offered a sacrifice of dedication, and of the finishing of the temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_10","053_2_10","2MA","2","10","10","As Moses prayed to the Lord and fire came down out of heaven and consumed the sacrifice, even so Solomon also prayed, and the fire came down and consumed the burnt offerings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_11","053_2_11","2MA","2","11","11","Moses said, ‘Because the sin offering had not been eaten, it was consumed in like manner.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_12","053_2_12","2MA","2","12","12","Likewise Solomon kept the eight days.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_13","053_2_13","2MA","2","13","13","The same things were reported both in the public archives and in Nehemiah’s records, and also how he, founding a library, gathered together the books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of David, and letters of kings about sacred gifts. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_14","053_2_14","2MA","2","14","14","In like manner Judas also gathered together for us all those books that had been scattered by reason of the war, and they are still with us. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_15","053_2_15","2MA","2","15","15","If therefore you have need of them, send some people to bring them to you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_16","053_2_16","2MA","2","16","16","Seeing then that we are about to celebrate the purification, we write to you. You will therefore do well if you celebrate the days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_17","053_2_17","2MA","2","17","17","Now God, who saved all his people, and restored the heritage to all, with the kingdom, the priesthood, and the consecration, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_18","053_2_18","2MA","2","18","18","even as he promised through the law— in God have we hope, that he will soon have mercy upon us, and gather us together out of everywhere under heaven into his holy place; for he delivered us out of great evils, and purified the place. ——————— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_19","053_2_19","2MA","2","19","19","Now the things concerning Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the greatest temple, the dedication of the altar, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_20","053_2_20","2MA","2","20","20","and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and Eupator his son, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_21","053_2_21","2MA","2","21","21","and the manifestations that came from heaven to those who fought with one another in brave deeds for the religion of the Jews; so that, being but a few, they seized the whole country, chased the barbarous multitudes, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_22","053_2_22","2MA","2","22","22","recovered again the temple renowned all the world over, freed the city, and restored the laws which were about to be overthrown, seeing the Lord became gracious to them with all kindness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_23","053_2_23","2MA","2","23","23","These things which have been declared by Jason of Cyrene in five books, we will attempt to abridge in one book. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_24","053_2_24","2MA","2","24","24","For having in view the confused mass of the numbers, and the difficulty which awaits those who would enter into the narratives of the history, by reason of the abundance of the matter, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_25","053_2_25","2MA","2","25","25","we were careful that those who choose to read may be attracted, and that those who wish us well may find it easy to recall, and that all readers may benefit. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_26","053_2_26","2MA","2","26","26","Although to us, who have taken upon ourselves the painful labor of the abridgement, the task is not easy, but a matter of sweat and sleeplessness, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_27","053_2_27","2MA","2","27","27","even as it is no light thing to him who prepares a banquet, and seeks the benefit of others. Nevertheless, for the sake of the gratitude of the many we will gladly endure the painful labor, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_28","053_2_28","2MA","2","28","28","leaving to the historian the exact handling of every particular, and again having no strength to fill in the outlines of our abridgement. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_29","053_2_29","2MA","2","29","29","For as the masterbuilder of a new house must care for the whole structure, and again he who undertakes to decorate and paint it must seek out the things fit for its adorning; even so I think it is also with us. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_30","053_2_30","2MA","2","30","30","To occupy the ground, and to indulge in long discussions, and to be curious in particulars, is fitting for the first author of the history; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_31","053_2_31","2MA","2","31","31","but to strive after brevity of expression, and to avoid a labored fullness in the treatment, is to be granted to him who would bring a writing into a new form. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M22_32","053_2_32","2MA","2","32","32","Here then let’s begin the narration, only adding this much to that which has already been said; for it is a foolish thing to make a long prologue to the history, and to abridge the history itself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_1","053_3_1","2MA","3","1","1","When the holy city was inhabited with unbroken peace and the laws were kept very well because of the godliness of Onias the high priest and his hatred of wickedness, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_2","053_3_2","2MA","3","2","2","it came to pass that even the kings themselves honored the place and glorified the temple with the noblest presents, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_3","053_3_3","2MA","3","3","3","so that even King Seleucus of Asia bore all the costs belonging to the services of the sacrifices out of his own revenues. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_4","053_3_4","2MA","3","4","4","But a man named Simon of the tribe of Benjamin, having been made guardian of the temple, disagreed with the high priest about the ruling of the market in the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_5","053_3_5","2MA","3","5","5","When he couldn’t overcome Onias, he went to Apollonius of Tarsus, who at that time was governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_6","053_3_6","2MA","3","6","6","He brought him word how that the treasury in Jerusalem was full of untold sums of money, so that the multitude of the funds was innumerable, and that they didn’t pertain to the account of the sacrifices, but that it was possible that these should fall under the king’s power. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_7","053_3_7","2MA","3","7","7","When Apollonius met the king, he informed him of the money about which he had been told. So the king appointed Heliodorus, who was his chancellor, and sent him with a command to accomplish the removal of the reported money. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_8","053_3_8","2MA","3","8","8","So Heliodorus set out on his journey at once, ostensibly to visit the cities of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, but in fact to execute the king’s purpose. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_9","053_3_9","2MA","3","9","9","When he had come to Jerusalem and had been courteously received by the high priest of the city, he told him about the information which had been given, and declared why he had come; and he inquired if in truth these things were so. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_10","053_3_10","2MA","3","10","10","The high priest explained to him that there were in the treasury deposits of widows and orphans, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_11","053_3_11","2MA","3","11","11","and moreover some money belonging to Hyrcanus the son of Tobias, a man in very high place, not as that impious Simon falsely alleged; and that in all there were four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_12","053_3_12","2MA","3","12","12","and that it was altogether impossible that wrong should be done to those who had put trust in the holiness of the place, and in the majesty and inviolable sanctity of the temple, honored over all the world. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_13","053_3_13","2MA","3","13","13","But Heliodorus, because of the king’s command given him, said that in any case this money must be confiscated for the king’s treasury. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_14","053_3_14","2MA","3","14","14","So having appointed a day, he entered in to direct the inquiry concerning these matters; and there was no small distress throughout the whole city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_15","053_3_15","2MA","3","15","15","The priests, prostrating themselves before the altar in their priestly garments, and called toward heaven upon him who gave the law concerning deposits, that he should preserve these treasures safe for those who had deposited them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_16","053_3_16","2MA","3","16","16","Whoever saw the appearance of the high priest was wounded in mind; for his countenance and the change of his color betrayed the distress of his soul. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_17","053_3_17","2MA","3","17","17","For a terror and a shuddering of the body had come over the man, by which the pain that was in his heart was plainly shown to those who looked at him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_18","053_3_18","2MA","3","18","18","Those who were in the houses rushed out in crowds to make a universal supplication, because the place was about to come into dishonor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_19","053_3_19","2MA","3","19","19","The women, girded with sackcloth under their breasts, thronged the streets. The virgins who were kept indoors ran together, some to the gates, others to the walls, and some looked out through the windows. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_20","053_3_20","2MA","3","20","20","All, stretching out their hands toward heaven, made their solemn supplication. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_21","053_3_21","2MA","3","21","21","Then it was pitiful to see the multitude prostrating themselves all mixed together, and the anxiety of the high priest in his great distress. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_22","053_3_22","2MA","3","22","22","While therefore they called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things entrusted to them safe and secure for those who had entrusted them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_23","053_3_23","2MA","3","23","23","Heliodorus went on to execute that which had been decreed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_24","053_3_24","2MA","3","24","24","But when he was already present there with his guards near the treasury, the Sovereign of spirits and of all authority caused a great manifestation, so that all who had presumed to come with him, stricken with dismay at the power of God, fainted in terror. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_25","053_3_25","2MA","3","25","25","For they saw a horse with a frightening rider, adorned with beautiful trappings, and he rushed fiercely and struck at Heliodorus with his forefeet. It seemed like he who sat on the horse had complete armor of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_26","053_3_26","2MA","3","26","26","Two others also appeared to him, young men notable in their strength, and beautiful in their glory, and splendid in their apparel, who stood by him on either side, and scourged him unceasingly, inflicting on him many sore stripes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_27","053_3_27","2MA","3","27","27","When he had fallen suddenly to the ground, and great darkness had come over him, his guards picked him up and put him on a stretcher, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_28","053_3_28","2MA","3","28","28","and carried him—this man who had just now entered with a great retinue and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_29","053_3_29","2MA","3","29","29","So, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_30","053_3_30","2MA","3","30","30","they blessed the Lord who acted marvelously for his own place. The temple, which a little before was full of terror and alarm, was filled with joy and gladness after the Almighty Lord appeared. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_31","053_3_31","2MA","3","31","31","But quickly some of Heliodorus’s familiar friends implored Onias to call upon the Most High to grant life to him who lay quite at the last gasp. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_32","053_3_32","2MA","3","32","32","The high priest, secretly fearing lest the king might come to think that some treachery toward Heliodorus had been perpetrated by the Jews, brought a sacrifice for the recovery of the man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_33","053_3_33","2MA","3","33","33","But as the high priest was making the atoning sacrifice, the same young men appeared again to Heliodorus, arrayed in the same garments. They stood and said, “Give Onias the high priest great thanks, for for his sake the Lord has granted you life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_34","053_3_34","2MA","3","34","34","See that you, since you have been scourged from heaven, proclaim to all men the sovereign majesty of God.” When they had spoken these words, they vanished out of sight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_35","053_3_35","2MA","3","35","35","So Heliodorus, having offered a sacrifice to the Lord and vowed great vows to him who had saved his life, and having bidden Onias farewell, returned with his army to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_36","053_3_36","2MA","3","36","36","He testified to all men the works of the greatest God, which he had seen with his eyes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_37","053_3_37","2MA","3","37","37","When the king asked Heliodorus what sort of man was fit to be sent yet once again to Jerusalem, he said, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_38","053_3_38","2MA","3","38","38","“If you have any enemy or conspirator against the state, send him there, and you will receive him back well scourged, if he even escapes with his life; because truly there is some power of God in that place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_39","053_3_39","2MA","3","39","39","For he who has his dwelling in heaven himself has his eyes on that place and helps it. Those who come to hurt it, he strikes and destroys.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M23_40","053_3_40","2MA","3","40","40","This was the history of Heliodorus and the keeping of the treasury. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_1","053_4_1","2MA","4","1","1","The previously mentioned Simon, who had given information about the money against his country, slandered Onias, saying that it was he who had incited Heliodorus and had been the real cause of these evils. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_2","053_4_2","2MA","4","2","2","He dared to call him a conspirator against the state who was actually the benefactor of the city, the guardian of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_3","053_4_3","2MA","4","3","3","When his hatred grew so great that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s approved agents, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_4","053_4_4","2MA","4","4","4","Onias, seeing the danger of the contention, and that Apollonius the son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was increasing Simon’s malice, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_5","053_4_5","2MA","4","5","5","appealed to the king, not to be an accuser of his fellow-citizens, but looking to the good of all the people, both public and private; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_6","053_4_6","2MA","4","6","6","for he saw that without the king’s involvement it was impossible for the state to obtain peace any more, and that Simon would not cease from his madness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_7","053_4_7","2MA","4","7","7","When Seleucus was deceased, and Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, succeeded to the kingdom, Jason the brother of Onias supplanted his brother in the high priesthood, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_8","053_4_8","2MA","4","8","8","having promised to the king at an audience three hundred sixty talents of silver, and out of another fund eighty talents. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_9","053_4_9","2MA","4","9","9","In addition to this, he undertook to assign one hundred fifty more, if it might be allowed him through the king’s authority to set him up a gymnasium and a body of youths to be trained in it, and to register the inhabitants of Jerusalem as citizens of Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_10","053_4_10","2MA","4","10","10","When the king had assented, and Jason had taken possession of the office, he immediately shifted those of his own race to the Greek way of life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_11","053_4_11","2MA","4","11","11","Setting aside the royal ordinances of special favor to the Jews, granted by the means of John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to the Romans to establish friendship and alliance, and seeking to overthrow the lawful ways of living, he brought in new customs forbidden by the law. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_12","053_4_12","2MA","4","12","12","For he eagerly established a gymnasium under the citadel itself, and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_13","053_4_13","2MA","4","13","13","Thus there was an extreme of hellenization, and an advance of a foreign religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, who was an ungodly man and not a high priest; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_14","053_4_14","2MA","4","14","14","so that the priests had no more any zeal for the services of the altar; but despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to enjoy that which was unlawfully provided in the wrestling arena, after the summons to the discus-throwing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_15","053_4_15","2MA","4","15","15","They despised the honors of their fathers, and valued the prestige of the Greeks best of all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_16","053_4_16","2MA","4","16","16","For this reason, severe calamity overtook them. The men whose ways of living they earnestly followed, and to whom they desired to be made like in all things, these became their enemies and punished them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_17","053_4_17","2MA","4","17","17","For it is not a light thing to show irreverence to God’s laws, but later events will make this clear. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_18","053_4_18","2MA","4","18","18","Now when certain games that came every fifth year were kept at Tyre, and the king was present, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_19","053_4_19","2MA","4","19","19","the vile Jason sent sacred envoys, as being Antiochians of Jerusalem, bearing three hundred drachmas of silver to the sacrifice of Hercules, which even the bearers thereof thought not right to use for any sacrifice, because it was not fit, but to spend it for another purpose. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_20","053_4_20","2MA","4","20","20","Although the intended purpose of the sender this money was for the sacrifice of Hercules, yet on account of present circumstances it went to the construction of trireme warships. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_21","053_4_21","2MA","4","21","21","Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the enthronement of Philometor as king, Antiochus, learning that Philometor had shown himself hostile toward the government, took precautions for the security of his realm. Therefore, going to Joppa, he travelled on to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_22","053_4_22","2MA","4","22","22","Being magnificently received by Jason and the city, he was brought in with torches and shouting. Then he led his army down into Phoenicia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_23","053_4_23","2MA","4","23","23","Now after a space of three years, Jason sent Menelaus, the previously mentioned Simon’s brother, to carry the money to the king, and to make reports concerning some necessary matters. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_24","053_4_24","2MA","4","24","24","But he being commended to the king, and having been glorified by the display of his authority, secured the high priesthood for himself, outbidding Jason by three hundred talents of silver. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_25","053_4_25","2MA","4","25","25","After receiving the royal mandates, he returned bringing nothing worthy of the high priesthood, but having the passion of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a savage animal. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_26","053_4_26","2MA","4","26","26","So Jason, who had supplanted his own brother, was supplanted by another and driven as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_27","053_4_27","2MA","4","27","27","Menelaus had possession of the office; but of the money that had been promised to the king nothing was regularly paid, even though Sostratus the governor of the citadel demanded it— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_28","053_4_28","2MA","4","28","28","for his job was the gathering of the revenues—so they were both called by the king to his presence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_29","053_4_29","2MA","4","29","29","Menelaus left his own brother Lysimachus for his deputy in the high priesthood; and Sostratus left Crates, who was over the Cyprians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_30","053_4_30","2MA","4","30","30","Now while this was the state of things, it came to pass that the people of Tarsus and Mallus revolted because they were to be given as a present to Antiochis, the king’s concubine. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_31","053_4_31","2MA","4","31","31","The king therefore quickly came to settle matters, leaving for his deputy Andronicus, a man of high rank. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_32","053_4_32","2MA","4","32","32","Then Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a favorable opportunity, presented to Andronicus certain vessels of gold belonging to the temple, which he had stolen. He had already sold others into Tyre and the neighboring cities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_33","053_4_33","2MA","4","33","33","When Onias had sure knowledge of this, he sharply reproved him, having withdrawn himself into a sanctuary at Daphne, that lies by Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_34","053_4_34","2MA","4","34","34","Therefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus aside, asked him to kill Onias. Coming to Onias, and being persuaded to use treachery, and being received as a friend, Andronicus gave him his right hand with oaths and, though he was suspicious, persuaded him to come out of the sanctuary. Then, with no regard for justice, he immediately put him to death. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_35","053_4_35","2MA","4","35","35","For this reason not only Jews, but many also of the other nations, had indignation and displeasure at the unjust murder of the man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_36","053_4_36","2MA","4","36","36","And when the king had come back from the places in Cilicia, the Jews who were in the city appealed to him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_37","053_4_37","2MA","4","37","37","Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him who was dead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_38","053_4_38","2MA","4","38","38","Being inflamed with anger, he immediately stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed the outrage against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_39","053_4_39","2MA","4","39","39","Now when many sacrileges had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the consent of Menelaus, and when the report of them had spread abroad outside, the people gathered themselves together against Lysimachus, after many vessels of gold had already been stolen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_40","053_4_40","2MA","4","40","40","When the multitudes were rising against him and were filled with anger, Lysimachus armed about three thousand men, and with unrighteous violence began the attack under the leadership of Hauran, a man far gone in years and no less also in folly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_41","053_4_41","2MA","4","41","41","But when they perceived the assault of Lysimachus, some caught up stones, others logs of wood, and some took handfuls of the ashes that lay near, and they flung them all in wild confusion at Lysimachus and those who were with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_42","053_4_42","2MA","4","42","42","As a result, they wounded many of them, they killed some, and they forced the rest of them to flee, but the author of the sacrilege himself they killed beside the treasury. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_43","053_4_43","2MA","4","43","43","But about these matters, there was an accusation laid against Menelaus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_44","053_4_44","2MA","4","44","44","When the king had come to Tyre, the three men who were sent by the senate pleaded the cause before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_45","053_4_45","2MA","4","45","45","But Menelaus, seeing himself now defeated, promised much money to Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, that he might win over the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_46","053_4_46","2MA","4","46","46","Therefore Ptolemy taking the king aside into a cloister, as if to get some fresh air, convinced him to change his mind. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_47","053_4_47","2MA","4","47","47","He who was the cause of all the evil, Menelaus, he discharged from the accusations; but these hapless men, who, if they had pleaded even before Scythians, would have been discharged uncondemned, them he sentenced to death. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_48","053_4_48","2MA","4","48","48","Those who were spokesmen for the city and the families of Israel and the holy vessels soon suffered that unrighteous penalty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_49","053_4_49","2MA","4","49","49","Therefore even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M24_50","053_4_50","2MA","4","50","50","But Menelaus, through the covetous dealings of those who were in power, remained still in his office, growing in wickedness, established as a great conspirator against his fellow-citizens. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_1","053_5_1","2MA","5","1","1","Now about this time Antiochus made his second invasion into Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_2","053_5_2","2MA","5","2","2","It happened that throughout all the city, for almost forty days, cavalry appeared in the midst of the sky in swift motion, wearing robes woven with gold and carrying spears, equipped with troops for battle— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_3","053_5_3","2MA","5","3","3","drawing swords, squadrons of cavalry in array, encounters and pursuits of both armies, shaking shields, multitudes of lances, throwing of missiles, flashing of golden trappings, and putting on all sorts of armor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_4","053_5_4","2MA","5","4","4","Therefore everyone prayed that the manifestation might have been given for good. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_5","053_5_5","2MA","5","5","5","When a false rumor had arisen that Antiochus was dead, Jason took not less than a thousand men, and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When those who were on the wall were being routed, and the city was at length nearly taken, Menelaus took refuge in the citadel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_6","053_5_6","2MA","5","6","6","But Jason slaughtered his own citizens without mercy, not considering that good success against kinsmen is the greatest misfortune, but supposing himself to be setting up trophies over enemies, and not over fellow-countrymen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_7","053_5_7","2MA","5","7","7","He didn’t win control of the government, but receiving shame as the result of his conspiracy, he fled again as a fugitive into the country of the Ammonites. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_8","053_5_8","2MA","5","8","8","At last therefore he met with a miserable end. Having been imprisoned at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as an rebel against the laws, and abhorred as the executioner of his country and his fellow citizens, he was cast ashore in Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_9","053_5_9","2MA","5","9","9","He who had driven many from their own country into exile perished in exile, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, hoping to find shelter there because they were near of kin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_10","053_5_10","2MA","5","10","10","He who had thrown out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him. He didn’t have any funeral at all and no place in the tomb of his ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_11","053_5_11","2MA","5","11","11","Now when news came to the king concerning that which was done, he thought that Judea was in revolt. So, setting out from Egypt in a rage, he took the city by force of weapons, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_12","053_5_12","2MA","5","12","12","and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy those who came in their way, and to kill those who went into their houses. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_13","053_5_13","2MA","5","13","13","Then there was killing of young and old, destruction of boys, women, and children, and slaying of virgins and infants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_14","053_5_14","2MA","5","14","14","In a total of three days, eighty thousand were destroyed, of which forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no fewer were sold into slavery than slain. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_15","053_5_15","2MA","5","15","15","Not content with this, he presumed to enter into the most holy temple of all the earth, having Menelaus for his guide (who had proved himself a traitor both to the laws and to his country), ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_16","053_5_16","2MA","5","16","16","even taking the sacred vessels with his polluted hands, and dragging down with his profane hands the offerings that had been dedicated by other kings to enhance the glory and honor of the place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_17","053_5_17","2MA","5","17","17","Antiochus was lifted up in mind, not seeing that because of the sins of those who lived in the city the Sovereign Lord had been provoked to anger a little while, and therefore his eye was turned away from the place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_18","053_5_18","2MA","5","18","18","But had it not been so that they were already bound by many sins, this man, even as Heliodorus who was sent by King Seleucus to view the treasury, would, as soon as he came forward, have been scourged and turned back from his daring deed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_19","053_5_19","2MA","5","19","19","However the Lord didn’t choose the nation for the place’s sake, but the place for the nation’s sake. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_20","053_5_20","2MA","5","20","20","Therefore also the place itself, having shared in the calamities that happened to the nation, did afterward share in its benefits; and the place which was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty was, at the reconciliation of the great Sovereign, restored again with all glory. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_21","053_5_21","2MA","5","21","21","As for Antiochus, when he had carried away out of the temple one thousand eight hundred talents, he hurried away to Antioch, thinking in his arrogance that he could sail on land and walk on the sea, because his heart was lifted up. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_22","053_5_22","2MA","5","22","22","Moreover he left governors to afflict the race: at Jerusalem, Philip, by race a Phrygian, and in character more barbarous than him who set him there; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_23","053_5_23","2MA","5","23","23","and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest, exalted himself against his fellow-citizens. Having a malicious mind toward the Jews whom he had made his citizens, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_24","053_5_24","2MA","5","24","24","he sent that lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of twenty-two thousand, commanding him to kill all those who were of full age, and to sell the women and the boys as slaves. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_25","053_5_25","2MA","5","25","25","He came to Jerusalem, and pretending to be a man of peace, waited till the holy day of the Sabbath, and finding the Jews at rest from work, he commanded his men to parade fully armed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_26","053_5_26","2MA","5","26","26","He put to the sword all those who came out to the spectacle. Running into the city with the armed men, he killed great multitudes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M25_27","053_5_27","2MA","5","27","27","But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, with about nine others, withdrew himself, and with his company kept himself alive in the mountains like wild animals do. They continued feeding on what grew wild, that they might not be partakers of the defilement. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_1","053_6_1","2MA","6","1","1","Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_2","053_6_2","2MA","6","2","2","and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_3","053_6_3","2MA","6","3","3","The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_4","053_6_4","2MA","6","4","4","For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_5","053_6_5","2MA","6","5","5","The altar was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_6","053_6_6","2MA","6","6","6","A man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of their ancestors, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_7","053_6_7","2MA","6","7","7","On the day of the king’s birth every month, they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices. When the feast of Dionysia came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_8","053_6_8","2MA","6","8","8","A decree went out to the neighboring Greek cities, by the suggestion of Ptolemy, that they should observe the same conduct against the Jews, and should make them eat of the sacrifices, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_9","053_6_9","2MA","6","9","9","and that they should kill those who didn’t choose to go over to the Greek rites. So the present misery was for all to see. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_10","053_6_10","2MA","6","10","10","For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_11","053_6_11","2MA","6","11","11","Others who had run together into the caves nearby to keep the seventh day secretly, were betrayed to Philip and were all burned together, because their piety kept them from defending themselves, in view of the honor of that most solemn day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_12","053_6_12","2MA","6","12","12","I urge those who read this book to not be discouraged because of the calamities, but recognize that these punishments were not for the destruction, but for the chastening of our race. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_13","053_6_13","2MA","6","13","13","For indeed it is a sign of great kindness that those who act impiously are not let alone for a long time, but immediately meet with retribution. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_14","053_6_14","2MA","6","14","14","For in the case of the other nations, the Sovereign Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have attained to the full measure of their sins; but not with us, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_15","053_6_15","2MA","6","15","15","that he may not take vengeance on us afterward, when we have come to the height of our sins. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_16","053_6_16","2MA","6","16","16","Therefore he never withdraws his mercy from us; but though he chastens with calamity, he doesn’t forsake his own people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_17","053_6_17","2MA","6","17","17","However let this that we have spoken suffice to remind you; but after a few words, we must come to the narrative. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_18","053_6_18","2MA","6","18","18","Eleazar, one of the principal scribes, a man already well advanced in years, and of a noble countenance, was compelled to open his mouth to eat swine’s flesh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_19","053_6_19","2MA","6","19","19","But he, welcoming death with honor rather than life with defilement, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat out the flesh, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_20","053_6_20","2MA","6","20","20","as men ought to come who are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_21","053_6_21","2MA","6","21","21","But those who had the charge of that forbidden sacrificial feast took the man aside, for the acquaintance which of old times they had with him, and privately implored him to bring flesh of his own providing, such as was proper for him to use, and to make as if he did eat of the flesh from the sacrifice, as had been commanded by the king; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_22","053_6_22","2MA","6","22","22","that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and so his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_23","053_6_23","2MA","6","23","23","But he, having formed a high resolve, and one that became his years, the dignity of old age, and the gray hairs which he had reached with honor, and his excellent education from a child, or rather the holy laws of God’s ordaining, declared his mind accordingly, bidding them to quickly send him to Hades. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_24","053_6_24","2MA","6","24","24","“For it doesn’t become our years to dissemble,” he said, “that many of the young should suppose that Eleazar, the man of ninety years, had gone over to an alien religion; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_25","053_6_25","2MA","6","25","25","and so they, by reason of my deception, and for the sake of this brief and momentary life, would be led astray because of me, and I defile and disgrace myself in my old age. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_26","053_6_26","2MA","6","26","26","For even if for the present time I would remove from me the punishment of men, yet whether I live or die, I wouldn’t escape the hands of the Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_27","053_6_27","2MA","6","27","27","Therefore, by bravely parting with my life now, I will show myself worthy of my old age, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_28","053_6_28","2MA","6","28","28","and leave behind a noble example to the young to die willingly and nobly a glorious death for the revered and holy laws.” When he had said these words, he went immediately to the instrument of torture. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_29","053_6_29","2MA","6","29","29","When they changed the good will they bore toward him a little before into ill will because these words of his were, as they thought, sheer madness, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_30","053_6_30","2MA","6","30","30","and when he was at the point to die with the blows, he groaned aloud and said, “To the Lord, who has the holy knowledge, it is manifest that, while I might have been delivered from death, I endure severe pains in my body by being scourged; but in soul I gladly suffer these things because of my fear of him.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M26_31","053_6_31","2MA","6","31","31","So this man also died like this, leaving his death for an example of nobleness and a memorial of virtue, not only to the young but also to the great body of his nation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_1","053_7_1","2MA","7","1","1","It came to pass that seven brothers and their mother were at the king’s command taken and shamefully handled with scourges and cords, to compel them to taste of the abominable swine’s flesh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_2","053_7_2","2MA","7","2","2","One of them made himself the spokesman and said, “What would you ask and learn from us? For we are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_3","053_7_3","2MA","7","3","3","The king fell into a rage, and commanded that pans and caldrons be heated. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_4","053_7_4","2MA","7","4","4","When these were immediately heated, he gave orders to cut out the tongue of him who had been their spokesman, and to scalp him, and to cut off his extremities, with the rest of his brothers and his mother looking on. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_5","053_7_5","2MA","7","5","5","And when he was utterly maimed, the king gave orders to bring him to the fire, being yet alive, and to fry him in the pan. And as the smoke from the pan spread far, they and their mother also exhorted one another to die nobly, saying this: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_6","053_7_6","2MA","7","6","6","“The Lord God sees, and in truth is entreated for us, as Moses declared in his song, which witnesses against the people to their faces, saying, ‘And he will have compassion on his servants.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_7","053_7_7","2MA","7","7","7","And when the first had died like this, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, “Will you eat, before your body is punished in every limb?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_8","053_7_8","2MA","7","8","8","But he answered in the language of his ancestors and said to them, “No.” Therefore he also underwent the next torture in succession, as the first had done. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_9","053_7_9","2MA","7","9","9","When he was at the last gasp, he said, “You, miscreant, release us out of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us who have died for his laws up to an everlasting renewal of life.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_10","053_7_10","2MA","7","10","10","After him, the third was made a victim of their mocking. When he was required, he quickly put out his tongue, and stretched out his hands courageously, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_11","053_7_11","2MA","7","11","11","and nobly said, “I got these from heaven. For his laws’ sake I treat these with contempt. From him, I hope to receive these back again.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_12","053_7_12","2MA","7","12","12","As a result, the king himself and those who were with him were astonished at the young man’s soul, for he regarded the pains as nothing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_13","053_7_13","2MA","7","13","13","When he too was dead, they shamefully handled and tortured the fourth in the same way. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_14","053_7_14","2MA","7","14","14","Being near to death he said this: “It is good to die at the hands of men and look for the hope which is given by God, that we will be raised up again by him. For as for you, you will have no resurrection to life.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_15","053_7_15","2MA","7","15","15","Next after him, they brought the fifth and shamefully handled him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_16","053_7_16","2MA","7","16","16","But he looked toward the king and said, “Because you have authority among men, though you are corruptible, you do what you please. But don’t think that our race has been forsaken by God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_17","053_7_17","2MA","7","17","17","But hold on to your ways, and see how his sovereign majesty will torture you and your descendants!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_18","053_7_18","2MA","7","18","18","After him they brought the sixth. When he was about to die, he said, “Don’t be vainly deceived, for we suffer these things for our own doings, as sinning against our own God. Astounding things have come to pass; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_19","053_7_19","2MA","7","19","19","but don’t think you that you will be unpunished, having tried to fight against God!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_20","053_7_20","2MA","7","20","20","But above all, the mother was marvelous and worthy of honorable memory; for when she watched seven sons perishing within the space of one day, she bore the sight with a good courage because of her hope in the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_21","053_7_21","2MA","7","21","21","She exhorted each one of them in the language of their fathers, filled with a noble spirit and stirring up her woman’s thoughts with manly courage, saying to them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_22","053_7_22","2MA","7","22","22","“I don’t know how you came into my womb. It wasn’t I who gave you your spirit and your life. It wasn’t I who brought into order the first elements of each one of you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_23","053_7_23","2MA","7","23","23","Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the first origin of man and devised the first origin of all things, in mercy gives back to you again both your spirit and your life, as you now treat yourselves with contempt for his laws’ sake.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_24","053_7_24","2MA","7","24","24","But Antiochus, thinking himself to be despised, and suspecting the reproachful voice, while the youngest was yet alive didn’t only make his appeal to him by words, but also at the same time promised with oaths that he would enrich him and raise him to high honor if he would turn from the ways of his ancestors, and that he would take him for his friend and entrust him with public affairs. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_25","053_7_25","2MA","7","25","25","But when the young man would in no way listen, the king called to him his mother, and urged her to advise the youth to save himself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_26","053_7_26","2MA","7","26","26","When he had urged her with many words, she undertook to persuade her son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_27","053_7_27","2MA","7","27","27","But bending toward him, laughing the cruel tyrant to scorn, she spoke this in the language of her fathers: “My son, have pity upon me who carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you three years, and nourished and brought you up to this age, and sustained you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_28","053_7_28","2MA","7","28","28","I beg you, my child, to lift your eyes to the sky and the earth, and to see all things that are in it, and thus to recognize that God made them not of things that were, and that the race of men in this way comes into being. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_29","053_7_29","2MA","7","29","29","Don’t be afraid of this butcher, but, proving yourself worthy of your brothers, accept your death, that in God’s mercy I may receive you again with your brothers.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_30","053_7_30","2MA","7","30","30","But before she had finished speaking, the young man said, “What are you all waiting for? I don’t obey the commandment of the king, but I listen to the commandment of the law that was given to our fathers through Moses. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_31","053_7_31","2MA","7","31","31","But you, who have devised all kinds of evil against the Hebrews, will in no way escape God’s hands. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_32","053_7_32","2MA","7","32","32","For we are suffering because of our own sins. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_33","053_7_33","2MA","7","33","33","If for rebuke and chastening, our living Lord has been angered a little while, yet he will again be reconciled with his own servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_34","053_7_34","2MA","7","34","34","But you, O unholy man and of all most vile, don’t be vainly lifted up in your wild pride with uncertain hopes, raising your hand against the heavenly children. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_35","053_7_35","2MA","7","35","35","For you have not yet escaped the judgment of the Almighty God who sees all things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_36","053_7_36","2MA","7","36","36","For these our brothers, having endured a short pain that brings everlasting life, have now died under God’s covenant. But you, through God’s judgment, will receive in just measure the penalties of your arrogance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_37","053_7_37","2MA","7","37","37","But I, as my brothers, give up both body and soul for the laws of our fathers, calling upon God that he may speedily become gracious to the nation, and that you, amidst trials and plagues, may confess that he alone is God, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_38","053_7_38","2MA","7","38","38","and that in me and my brothers you may bring to an end the wrath of the Almighty which has been justly brought upon our whole race.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_39","053_7_39","2MA","7","39","39","But the king, falling into a rage, handled him worse than all the rest, being exasperated at his mocking. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_40","053_7_40","2MA","7","40","40","So he also died pure, putting his whole trust in the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_41","053_7_41","2MA","7","41","41","Last of all, after her sons, the mother died. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M27_42","053_7_42","2MA","7","42","42","Let it then suffice to have said thus much concerning the sacrificial feasts and the extreme tortures. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_1","053_8_1","2MA","8","1","1","But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, and those who were with him, making their way secretly into the villages, called to them their kindred. Taking to them those who had continued in the Jews’ religion, gathered together about six thousand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_2","053_8_2","2MA","8","2","2","They called upon the Lord to look at the people who were oppressed by all, and to have compassion on the sanctuary that had been profaned by the ungodly men, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_3","053_8_3","2MA","8","3","3","and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to listen to the blood that cried out to him, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_4","053_8_4","2MA","8","4","4","and to remember the lawless destruction of the innocent infants, and concerning the blasphemies that had been committed against his name, and to show his hatred of wickedness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_5","053_8_5","2MA","8","5","5","When Maccabaeus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_6","053_8_6","2MA","8","6","6","Coming without warning, he set fire to cities and villages. And in winning back the most important positions, putting to flight no small number of the enemies, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_7","053_8_7","2MA","8","7","7","he especially took advantage of the nights for such assaults. His courage was loudly talked of everywhere. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_8","053_8_8","2MA","8","8","8","But when Philip saw the man gaining ground little by little, and increasing more and more in his success, he wrote to Ptolemy, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, that he should support the king’s cause. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_9","053_8_9","2MA","8","9","9","Ptolemy quickly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king’s chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations, to destroy the whole race of Judea. With him he joined Gorgias also, a captain and one who had experience in matters of war. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_10","053_8_10","2MA","8","10","10","Nicanor resolved by the sale of the captive Jews to make up for the king the tribute of two thousand talents which he was to pay to the Romans. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_11","053_8_11","2MA","8","11","11","Immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, inviting them to buy Jewish slaves, promising to deliver seventy slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgment that was to overtake him from the Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_12","053_8_12","2MA","8","12","12","News came to Judas concerning Nicanor’s invasion. When he communicated to those who were with him the presence of the army, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_13","053_8_13","2MA","8","13","13","those who were cowardly and distrustful of God’s judgment ran away and left the country. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_14","053_8_14","2MA","8","14","14","Others sold all that they had left, and at the same time implored the Lord to deliver those who had been sold as slaves by the impious Nicanor before he ever met them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_15","053_8_15","2MA","8","15","15","if not for their own sakes, then for the covenants made with their ancestors, and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_16","053_8_16","2MA","8","16","16","So Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them, but to fight nobly, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_17","053_8_17","2MA","8","17","17","setting before their eyes the outrage that had been lawlessly perpetrated upon the holy place, and the torture of the city that had been turned to mockery, and further the overthrow of the way of life received from their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_18","053_8_18","2MA","8","18","18","“For they,” he said, “trust their weapons and daring deeds, but we trust in the almighty God, since he is able at a nod to cast down those who are coming against us, and even the whole world.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_19","053_8_19","2MA","8","19","19","Moreover, he recounted to them the help given from time to time in the days of their ancestors, both in the days of Sennacherib, when one hundred eighty-five thousand perished, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_20","053_8_20","2MA","8","20","20","and in the land of Babylon, in the battle that was fought against the Gauls, how they came to the battle with eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, and how, the Macedonians being hard pressed, the six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand because of the help which they had from heaven, and took a great deal of plunder. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_21","053_8_21","2MA","8","21","21","And when he had with these words filled them with courage and made them ready to die for the laws and their country, he divided his army into four parts. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_22","053_8_22","2MA","8","22","22","He appointed his brothers, Simon, Joseph, and Jonathan, to be leaders of the divisions with him, giving each the command of one thousand five hundred men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_23","053_8_23","2MA","8","23","23","Moreover Eleazer also, having read aloud the sacred book, and having given as watchword, “THE HELP OF GOD”, leading the first band himself, joined battle with Nicanor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_24","053_8_24","2MA","8","24","24","Since the Almighty fought on their side, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy, and wounded and disabled most of Nicanor’s army, and compelled them all to flee. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_25","053_8_25","2MA","8","25","25","They took the money of those who had come there to buy them as slaves. After they had pursued them for some distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_26","053_8_26","2MA","8","26","26","for it was the day before the Sabbath, and for this reason they made no effort to chase them far. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_27","053_8_27","2MA","8","27","27","When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, and had stripped off their spoils, they kept the Sabbath, greatly blessing and thanking the Lord who had saved them to this day, because he had begun to show mercy to them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_28","053_8_28","2MA","8","28","28","After the Sabbath, when they had given some of the spoils to the maimed, and to the widows and orphans, they distributed the rest among themselves and their children. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_29","053_8_29","2MA","8","29","29","When they had accomplished these things and had made a common supplication, they implored the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_30","053_8_30","2MA","8","30","30","Having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of exceedingly high strongholds, and divided very much plunder, giving the maimed, orphans, widows, and the aged an equal share with themselves. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_31","053_8_31","2MA","8","31","31","When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most strategic positions, and they carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_32","053_8_32","2MA","8","32","32","They killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much harm. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_33","053_8_33","2MA","8","33","33","As they celebrated the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set the sacred gates on fire, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a little house. So they received the proper reward for their impiety. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_34","053_8_34","2MA","8","34","34","The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews as slaves, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_35","053_8_35","2MA","8","35","35","being through the help of the Lord humbled by them who in his eyes were held to be of least account, took off his glorious apparel, and passing through the country, shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at Antioch, having, as he thought, had the greatest possible good fortune, though his army was destroyed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M28_36","053_8_36","2MA","8","36","36","He who had taken upon himself to make tribute sure for the Romans by the captivity of the men of Jerusalem published abroad that the Jews had One who fought for them, and that because this was so, the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_1","053_9_1","2MA","9","1","1","Now about that time, Antiochus retreated in disorder from the region of Persia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_2","053_9_2","2MA","9","2","2","For he had entered into the city called Persepolis, and he attempted to rob a temple and to control the city. Therefore the multitudes rushed in and the people of the country turned to defend themselves with weapons; and it came to pass that Antiochus was put to flight by the people of the country and broke his camp with disgrace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_3","053_9_3","2MA","9","3","3","While he was at Ecbatana, news was brought to him about what had happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timotheus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_4","053_9_4","2MA","9","4","4","Being overcome by his anger, he planned to make the Jews suffer for the evil deeds of those who had put him to flight. Therefore, with judgment from heaven even now accompanying him, he ordered his charioteer to drive without ceasing until he completed the journey; for he arrogantly said this: “I will make Jerusalem a common graveyard of Jews when I come there.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_5","053_9_5","2MA","9","5","5","But the All-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him with a fatal and invisible stroke. As soon as he had finished speaking this word, an incurable pain of the bowels seized him, with bitter torments of the inner parts— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_6","053_9_6","2MA","9","6","6","and that most justly, for he had tormented other men’s bowels with many and strange sufferings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_7","053_9_7","2MA","9","7","7","But he in no way ceased from his rude insolence. No, he was filled with even more arrogance, breathing fire in his passion against the Jews, and giving orders to hasten the journey. But it came to pass moreover that he fell from his chariot as it rushed along, and having a grievous fall was tortured in all of the members of his body. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_8","053_9_8","2MA","9","8","8","He who had just supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding because he was so superhumanly arrogant, and who thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, showing to all that the power was obviously God’s, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_9","053_9_9","2MA","9","9","9","so that worms swarmed out of the impious man’s body, and while he was still living in anguish and pains, his flesh fell off, and by reason of the stench all the army turned with loathing from his decay. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_10","053_9_10","2MA","9","10","10","The man who a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry because of his intolerable stench. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_11","053_9_11","2MA","9","11","11","Therefore he began in great part to cease from his arrogance, being broken in spirit, and to come to knowledge under the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_12","053_9_12","2MA","9","12","12","When he himself could not stand his own smell, he said these words: “It is right to be subject to God, and that one who is mortal should not think they are equal to God.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_13","053_9_13","2MA","9","13","13","The vile man vowed to the sovereign Lord, who now no more would have pity upon him, saying ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_14","053_9_14","2MA","9","14","14","that the holy city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_15","053_9_15","2MA","9","15","15","Concerning the Jews, whom he had decided not even to count worthy of burial, but to cast them out to the animals with their infants for the birds to devour, he would make them all equal to citizens of Athens. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_16","053_9_16","2MA","9","16","16","The holy sanctuary, which before he had plundered, he would adorn with best offerings, and would restore all the sacred vessels many times multiplied, and out of his own revenues would defray the charges that were required for the sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_17","053_9_17","2MA","9","17","17","Beside all this, he said that he would become a Jew and would visit every inhabited place, proclaiming the power of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_18","053_9_18","2MA","9","18","18","But when his sufferings did in no way cease, for the judgment of God had come upon him in righteousness, having given up all hope for himself, he wrote to the Jews the letter written below, having the nature of a supplication, to this effect: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_19","053_9_19","2MA","9","19","19","“To the worthy Jewish citizens, Antiochus, king and general, wishes much joy and health and prosperity. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_20","053_9_20","2MA","9","20","20","May you and your children fare well, and may your affairs be as you wish. Having my hope in heaven, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_21","053_9_21","2MA","9","21","21","I remembered with affection your honor and good will. Returning out of the region of Persia, and being taken with an annoying sickness, I deemed it necessary to take thought for the common safety of all, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_22","053_9_22","2MA","9","22","22","not despairing of myself, but having great hope to escape from the sickness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_23","053_9_23","2MA","9","23","23","But considering that my father also, at the time he led an army into the upper country, appointed his successor, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_24","053_9_24","2MA","9","24","24","to the end that, if anything fell out contrary to expectation, or if any unwelcome tidings were brought, the people in the country, knowing to whom the state had been left, might not be troubled, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_25","053_9_25","2MA","9","25","25","and, moreover, observing how the princes who are along the borders and neighbors to my kingdom watch for opportunities and look for the future event, I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I often entrusted and commended to most of you when I was hurrying to the upper provinces. I have written to him what is written below. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_26","053_9_26","2MA","9","26","26","I therefore urge you and beg you, having in your remembrance the benefits done to you in common and severally, to preserve your present good will, each of you, toward me and my son. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_27","053_9_27","2MA","9","27","27","For I am persuaded that he in gentleness and kindness will follow my purpose and treat you with moderation and kindness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_28","053_9_28","2MA","9","28","28","So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the most intense sufferings, even as he had dealt with other men, ended his life among the mountains by a most piteous fate in a strange land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M29_29","053_9_29","2MA","9","29","29","Philip his foster brother took the body home and then, fearing the son of Antiochus, he withdrew himself to Ptolemy Philometor in Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_1","053_10_1","2MA","10","1","1","Then Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_2","053_10_2","2MA","10","2","2","They pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the foreigners, and also the sacred enclosures. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_3","053_10_3","2MA","10","3","3","Having cleansed the sanctuary, they made another altar of sacrifice. Striking flint and starting a fire, they offered sacrifices after they had ceased for two years, burned incense, lit lamps, and set out the show bread. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_4","053_10_4","2MA","10","4","4","When they had done these things, they fell prostrate and implored the Lord that they might fall no more into such evils; but that, if they ever did sin, they might be chastened by him with forbearance, and not be delivered to blaspheming and barbarous heathen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_5","053_10_5","2MA","10","5","5","Now on the same day that the sanctuary was profaned by foreigners, upon that very day it came to pass that the sanctuary was cleansed, even on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which is Chislev. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_6","053_10_6","2MA","10","6","6","They observed eight days with gladness in the manner of the feast of tabernacles, remembering how not long before, during the feast of tabernacles, they were wandering in the mountains and in the caves like wild animals. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_7","053_10_7","2MA","10","7","7","Therefore carrying wands wreathed with leaves, and beautiful branches, and palm fronds also, they offered up hymns of thanksgiving to him who had successfully brought to pass the cleansing of his own place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_8","053_10_8","2MA","10","8","8","They ordained also with a public statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should observe these days every year. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_9","053_10_9","2MA","10","9","9","Such were the events of the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_10","053_10_10","2MA","10","10","10","Now we will declare what came to pass under Antiochus Eupator, who proved himself a son of that ungodly man, and will summarize the main evils of the wars. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_11","053_10_11","2MA","10","11","11","For this man, when he succeeded to the kingdom, appointed one Lysias to be chancellor and supreme governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_12","053_10_12","2MA","10","12","12","For Ptolemy who was called Macron, setting an example of observing justice toward the Jews because of the wrong that had been done to them, endeavored to deal with them on peaceful terms. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_13","053_10_13","2MA","10","13","13","Whereupon being accused by the king’s friends before Eupator, and hearing himself called traitor at every turn because he had abandoned Cyprus which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had withdrawn himself to Antiochus Epiphanes, and failing to uphold the honor of his office, he took poison and did away with himself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_14","053_10_14","2MA","10","14","14","But when Gorgias was made governor of the district, he maintained a force of mercenaries, and at every turn kept up war with the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_15","053_10_15","2MA","10","15","15","Together with him the Idumaeans also, being masters of important strongholds, harassed the Jews; and received those who had taken refuge from Jerusalem, they endeavored to keep up the war. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_16","053_10_16","2MA","10","16","16","But Maccabaeus and his men, having made solemn supplication and having implored God to fight on their side, rushed upon the strongholds of the Idumaeans. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_17","053_10_17","2MA","10","17","17","Assaulting them vigorously, they took control of the positions, and kept off all who fought upon the wall, and killed those whom they encountered, killing no fewer than twenty thousand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_18","053_10_18","2MA","10","18","18","Because no fewer than nine thousand had fled into two very strong towers having everything needed for a seige, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_19","053_10_19","2MA","10","19","19","Maccabaeus, having left Simon and Joseph, and also Zacchaeus and those who were with him, a force sufficient to besiege them, departed himself to places where he was most needed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_20","053_10_20","2MA","10","20","20","But Simon and those who were with him, yielding to covetousness, were bribed by some of those who were in the towers, and receiving seventy thousand drachmas, let some of them slip away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_21","053_10_21","2MA","10","21","21","But when word was brought to Maccabaeus of what was done, he gathered the leaders of the people together, and accused those men of having sold their kindred for money by setting their enemies free to fight against them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_22","053_10_22","2MA","10","22","22","So he killed these men for having turned traitors, and immediately took possession of the two towers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_23","053_10_23","2MA","10","23","23","Prospering with his weapons in everything he undertook, he destroyed more than twenty thousand in the two strongholds. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_24","053_10_24","2MA","10","24","24","Now Timotheus, who had been defeated by the Jews before, having gathered together foreign forces in great multitudes, and having collected the cavalry which belonged to Asia, not a few, came as though he would take Judea by force of weapons. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_25","053_10_25","2MA","10","25","25","But as he drew near, Maccabaeus and his men sprinkled dirt on their heads and girded their loins with sackcloth, in supplication to God, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_26","053_10_26","2MA","10","26","26","and falling down upon the step in front of the altar, implored him to become gracious to them, and be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_27","053_10_27","2MA","10","27","27","Rising from their prayer they took up their weapons, and advanced some distance from the city. When they had come near to their enemies, they halted. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_28","053_10_28","2MA","10","28","28","When the dawn was now breaking, the two armies joined in battle, the one part having this, beside virtue, for a pledge of success and victory, that they had fled to the Lord for refuge, the others making their passion their leader in the fight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_29","053_10_29","2MA","10","29","29","When the battle became strong, there appeared out of heaven to their adversaries five splendid men on horses with bridles of gold, and two of them, leading on the Jews, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_30","053_10_30","2MA","10","30","30","and taking Maccabaeus in the midst of them, and covering him with their own armor, guarded him from wounds, while they shot arrows and thunderbolts at the enemies. For this reason, they were blinded and thrown into confusion, and were cut to pieces, filled with bewilderment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_31","053_10_31","2MA","10","31","31","Twenty thousand five hundred were slain, beside six hundred cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_32","053_10_32","2MA","10","32","32","Timotheus himself fled into a stronghold called Gazara, a fortress of great strength, where Chaereas was in command. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_34","053_10_34","2MA","10","34","34","Those who were within, trusting in the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and hurled out impious words. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_36","053_10_36","2MA","10","36","36","Others climbing up in the same way, while the enemies were distracted with those who had made their way within, set fire to the towers, and kindled fires that burned the blasphemers alive, while others broke open the gates, and, having given entrance to the rest of the band, occupied the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_37","053_10_37","2MA","10","37","37","They killed Timotheus, who was hidden in a cistern, and his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M210_38","053_10_38","2MA","10","38","38","When they had accomplished these things, they blessed the Lord with hymns and thanksgiving, blessing him who provides great benefits to Israel and gives them the victory. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_1","053_11_1","2MA","11","1","1","Now after a very little time, Lysias, the king’s guardian, kinsman, and chancellor, being very displeased about the things that had happened, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_2","053_11_2","2MA","11","2","2","collected about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews, planing to make the city a home for Greeks, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_3","053_11_3","2MA","11","3","3","and to levy tribute on the temple, as on the other sacred places of the nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_4","053_11_4","2MA","11","4","4","He took no account of God’s power, but was puffed up with his ten thousands of infantry, his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_5","053_11_5","2MA","11","5","5","Coming into Judea and approaching Bethsuron, which was a strong place and about five stadia away from Jerusalem, he pressed it hard. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_6","053_11_6","2MA","11","6","6","When Maccabaeus and his men learned that he was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people with lamentations and tears made supplication to the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_7","053_11_7","2MA","11","7","7","Maccabaeus himself took up weapons first, and exhorted the others to put themselves in jeopardy together with him and help their kindred; and they went out with him very willingly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_8","053_11_8","2MA","11","8","8","As they were there, close to Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head in white apparel, brandishing weapons of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_9","053_11_9","2MA","11","9","9","They all together praised the merciful God, and were yet more strengthened in heart, being ready to assail not only men but the wildest animals and walls of iron, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_10","053_11_10","2MA","11","10","10","they advanced in array, having him who is in heaven to fight on their side, for the Lord had mercy on them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_11","053_11_11","2MA","11","11","11","Hurling themselves like lions against the enemy, they killed eleven thousand infantry and one thousand six hundred cavalry, and forced all the rest to flee. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_12","053_11_12","2MA","11","12","12","Most of them escaped wounded and naked. Lysias himself also escaped by shameful flight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_13","053_11_13","2MA","11","13","13","But as he was a man not void of understanding, pondering the defeat which had befallen him, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome because the Almighty God fought on their side, he sent again ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_14","053_11_14","2MA","11","14","14","and persuaded them to come to terms on condition that all their rights were acknowledged, and promised that he would also persuade the king to become their friend. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_15","053_11_15","2MA","11","15","15","Maccabaeus gave consent upon all the conditions which Lysias proposed to him, being careful of the common good; for whatever requests Maccabaeus delivered in writing to Lysias concerning the Jews the king allowed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_16","053_11_16","2MA","11","16","16","The letter written to the Jews from Lysias was to this effect: “Lysias to the people of the Jews, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_17","053_11_17","2MA","11","17","17","John and Absalom, who were sent from you, having delivered the document written below, made request concerning the things written therein. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_18","053_11_18","2MA","11","18","18","Whatever things therefore needed to be brought before the king I declared to him, and what things were possible he allowed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_19","053_11_19","2MA","11","19","19","If then you will all preserve your good will toward the government, I will also endeavor in the future to contribute to your good. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_20","053_11_20","2MA","11","20","20","Concerning this, I have given order in detail, both to these men and to those who are sent from me, to confer with you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_21","053_11_21","2MA","11","21","21","Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the twenty-fourth day of the month Dioscorinthius.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_22","053_11_22","2MA","11","22","22","And the king’s letter contained these words: “King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_23","053_11_23","2MA","11","23","23","Seeing that our father passed to the gods having the wish that the subjects of his kingdom should be undisturbed and give themselves to the care of their own affairs, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_24","053_11_24","2MA","11","24","24","we, having heard that the Jews do not consent to our father’s purpose to turn them to the customs of the Greeks, but choose rather their own way of living, and make request that the customs of their law be allowed to them— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_25","053_11_25","2MA","11","25","25","choosing therefore that this nation also should be free from disturbance, we determine that their temple is to be restored to them, and that they live according to the customs that were in the days of their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_26","053_11_26","2MA","11","26","26","You will therefore do well to send messengers to them and give them the right hand of friendship, that they, knowing our mind, may be of good heart, and gladly occupy themselves with the conduct of their own affairs.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_27","053_11_27","2MA","11","27","27","And to the nation, the king’s letter was as follows: “King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_28","053_11_28","2MA","11","28","28","If you are all well, it is as we desire. We ourselves also are in good health. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_29","053_11_29","2MA","11","29","29","Menelaus informed us that your desire was to return home and follow your own business. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_30","053_11_30","2MA","11","30","30","They therefore who depart home up to the thirtieth day of Xanthicus shall have our friendship, with full permission ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_31","053_11_31","2MA","11","31","31","that the Jews use their own foods and observe their own laws, even as formerly. None of them shall be in any way molested for the things that have been done in ignorance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_32","053_11_32","2MA","11","32","32","Moreover I have sent Menelaus also, that he may encourage you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_33","053_11_33","2MA","11","33","33","Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_34","053_11_34","2MA","11","34","34","The Romans also sent to them a letter in these words: “Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_35","053_11_35","2MA","11","35","35","In regard to the things which Lysias the king’s kinsman granted you, we also give consent. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_36","053_11_36","2MA","11","36","36","But as for the things which he judged should be referred to the king, send someone promptly, after you have considered them, that we may publish such decrees as are appropriate for your case; for we are on our way to Antioch. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_37","053_11_37","2MA","11","37","37","Therefore send someone with speed, that we also may learn what is your mind. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M211_38","053_11_38","2MA","11","38","38","Farewell. Written in the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_1","053_12_1","2MA","12","1","1","So when this agreement had been made, Lysias departed to the king, and the Jews went about their farming. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_2","053_12_2","2MA","12","2","2","But some of the governors of districts, Timotheus and Apollonius the son of Gennaeus, and also Hieronymus and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to enjoy tranquillity and live in peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_3","053_12_3","2MA","12","3","3","Men of Joppa perpetrated this great impiety: they invited the Jews who lived among them to go with their wives and children into the boats which they had provided, as though they had no ill will toward them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_4","053_12_4","2MA","12","4","4","When the Jews, relying on the public vote of the city, accepted the invitation, as men desiring to live in peace and suspecting nothing, they took them out to sea and drowned not less than two hundred of them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_5","053_12_5","2MA","12","5","5","When Judas heard of the cruelty done to his fellow-countrymen, giving command to the men that were with him ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_6","053_12_6","2MA","12","6","6","and calling upon God the righteous Judge, he came against the murderers of his kindred, and set the harbor on fire at night, burned the boats, and put to the sword those who had fled there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_7","053_12_7","2MA","12","7","7","But when the town gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_8","053_12_8","2MA","12","8","8","But learning that the men of Jamnia intended to do the same thing to the Jews who lived among them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_9","053_12_9","2MA","12","9","9","he attacked the Jamnites at night, and set fire to the harbor together with the fleet, so that the glare of the light was seen at Jerusalem, two hundred forty furlongs distant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_10","053_12_10","2MA","12","10","10","Now when they had drawn off nine furlongs from there, as they marched against Timotheus, an army of Arabians attacked him, no fewer than five thousand infantry and five hundred cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_11","053_12_11","2MA","12","11","11","And when a hard battle had been fought, and Judas and his company, by the help of God, had good success, the nomads being overcome implored Judas to grant them friendship, promising to give him livestock, and to help his people in all other ways. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_12","053_12_12","2MA","12","12","12","So Judas, thinking that they would indeed be profitable in many things, agreed to live in peace with them; and receiving pledges of friendship they departed to their tents. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_13","053_12_13","2MA","12","13","13","He also attacked a certain city, strong and fenced with earthworks and walls, and inhabited by a mixed multitude of various nations. It was named Caspin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_14","053_12_14","2MA","12","14","14","Those who were within, trusting in the strength of the walls and their store of provisions, behaved themselves rudely toward Judas and those who were with him, railing, and furthermore blaspheming and speaking impious words. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_15","053_12_15","2MA","12","15","15","But Judas and his company, calling upon the great Sovereign of the world, who without rams and cunning engines of war hurled down Jericho in the times of Joshua, rushed wildly against the wall. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_16","053_12_16","2MA","12","16","16","Having taken the city by the will of God, they made unspeakable slaughter, so much that the adjoining lake, which was two furlongs broad, appeared to be filled with the deluge of blood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_17","053_12_17","2MA","12","17","17","When they had gone seven hundred fifty furlongs from there, they made their way to Charax, to the Jews that are called Tubieni. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_18","053_12_18","2MA","12","18","18","They didn’t find Timotheus in that district, for he had by then departed from the district without accomplishing anything, but had left behind a very strong garrison in one place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_19","053_12_19","2MA","12","19","19","But Dositheus and Sosipater, who were captains under Maccabaeus, went out and destroyed those who had been left by Timotheus in the stronghold, more than ten thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_20","053_12_20","2MA","12","20","20","Maccabaeus, arranging his own army in divisions, set these two over the bands, and marched in haste against Timotheus, who had with him one hundred twenty thousand infantry and two thousand five hundred cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_21","053_12_21","2MA","12","21","21","When Timotheus heard of the approach of Judas, he at once sent away the women and the children with the baggage into the fortress called Carnion; for the place was hard to besiege and difficult of access by reason of the narrowness of the approaches on all sides. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_22","053_12_22","2MA","12","22","22","When the band of Judas, who led the first division, appeared in sight, and when terror and fear came upon the enemy, because the manifestation of him who sees all things came upon them, they fled in every direction, carried this way and that, so that they were often injured by their own men, and pierced with the points of their own swords. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_23","053_12_23","2MA","12","23","23","Judas continued the pursuit more vigorously, putting the wicked wretches to the sword, and he destroyed as many as thirty thousand men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_24","053_12_24","2MA","12","24","24","Timotheus himself, falling in with the company of Dositheus and Sosipater, implored them with much crafty guile to let him go with his life, because he had in his power the parents of many of them and the kindred of some. “Otherwise, he said, little regard will be shown to these.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_25","053_12_25","2MA","12","25","25","So when he had with many words confirmed the agreement to restore them without harm, they let him go that they might save their kindred. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_26","053_12_26","2MA","12","26","26","Then Judas, marching against Carnion and the temple of Atergatis, killed twenty-five thousand people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_27","053_12_27","2MA","12","27","27","After he had put these to flight and destroyed them, he marched against Ephron also, a strong city, wherein were multitudes of people of all nations. Stalwart young men placed on the walls made a vigorous defense. There were great stores of war engines and darts there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_28","053_12_28","2MA","12","28","28","But calling upon the Sovereign who with might shatters the strength of the enemy, they took the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were in it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_29","053_12_29","2MA","12","29","29","Setting out from there, they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is six hundred furlongs away from Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_30","053_12_30","2MA","12","30","30","But when the Jews who were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kind treatment of them in the times of their misfortune, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_31","053_12_31","2MA","12","31","31","they gave thanks, and further exhorted them to remain well disposed toward the race for the future. Then they went up to Jerusalem, the feast of weeks being close at hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_32","053_12_32","2MA","12","32","32","But after the feast called Pentecost, they marched in haste against Gorgias the governor of Idumaea. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_33","053_12_33","2MA","12","33","33","He came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_34","053_12_34","2MA","12","34","34","When they had set themselves in array, it came to pass that a few of the Jews fell. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_35","053_12_35","2MA","12","35","35","A certain Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s company, who was on horseback and was a strong man, pressed hard on Gorgias, and taking hold of his cloke dragged him along by main force. While he planned to take the accursed man alive, one of the Thracian cavalry bore down on him and disabled his shoulder, and so Gorgias escaped to Marisa. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_36","053_12_36","2MA","12","36","36","When those who were with Esdris had been fighting long and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself, fighting on their side and leading in the battle. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_37","053_12_37","2MA","12","37","37","Then in the language of his ancestors he raised the battle cry joined with hymns. Then he rushed against Gorgias’ troops when they were not expecting it, and put them to flight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_38","053_12_38","2MA","12","38","38","Judas gathered his army and came to the city of Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_39","053_12_39","2MA","12","39","39","On the following day, when it had become necessary, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of those who had fallen, and in company with their kinsmen to bring them back to the sepulchres of their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_40","053_12_40","2MA","12","40","40","But under the garments of each one of the dead they found consecrated tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to have anything to do with. It became clear to all that it was for this cause that they had fallen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_41","053_12_41","2MA","12","41","41","All therefore, blessing the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hidden, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_42","053_12_42","2MA","12","42","42","turned themselves to supplication, praying that the sin committed might be wholly blotted out. The noble Judas exhorted the multitude to keep themselves from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_43","053_12_43","2MA","12","43","43","When he had made a collection man by man to the sum of two thousand drachmas of silver, he sent to Jerusalem to offer a sacrifice for sin, doing very well and honorably in this, in that he took thought for the resurrection. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_44","053_12_44","2MA","12","44","44","For if he wasn’t expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would be superfluous and idle to pray for the dead. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M212_45","053_12_45","2MA","12","45","45","But if he was looking forward to an honorable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who die in godliness, then the thought was holy and godly. Therefore he made the atoning sacrifice for those who had died, that they might be released from their sin. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_1","053_13_1","2MA","13","1","1","In the one hundred forty-ninth year, news was brought to Judas and his company that Antiochus Eupator was coming with multitudes against Judea, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_2","053_13_2","2MA","13","2","2","and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, each having a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_3","053_13_3","2MA","13","3","3","And Menelaus also joined himself with them, and with great hypocrisy encouraged Antiochus, not for the saving of his country, but because he thought that he would be set over the government. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_4","053_13_4","2MA","13","4","4","But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the wicked wretch. When Lysias informed him that this man was the cause of all the evils, the king commanded to bring him to Beroea, and to put him to death in the way customary in that place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_5","053_13_5","2MA","13","5","5","Now there is in that place a tower that is fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all around it a circular rim sloping steeply on every side into the ashes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_6","053_13_6","2MA","13","6","6","Here one who is guilty of sacrilege or notorious for other crimes is pushed down to destruction. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_7","053_13_7","2MA","13","7","7","By such a fate it happened that the breaker of the law, Menelaus, died, without obtaining so much as a grave in the earth, and that justly; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_8","053_13_8","2MA","13","8","8","for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_9","053_13_9","2MA","13","9","9","Now the king, infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had been done in his father’s time. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_10","053_13_10","2MA","13","10","10","But when Judas heard of these things, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord day and night, if ever at any other time, so now to help those who were at the point of being deprived of the law, their country, and the holy temple, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_11","053_13_11","2MA","13","11","11","and not to allow the people who had just begun to be revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_12","053_13_12","2MA","13","12","12","So when they had all done the same thing together, begging the merciful Lord with weeping and fastings and prostration for three days without ceasing, Judas exhorted them and commanded they should join him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_13","053_13_13","2MA","13","13","13","Having consulted privately with the elders, he resolved that before the king’s army entered into Judea and made themselves masters of the city, they should go out and decide the matter by the help of God. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_15","053_13_15","2MA","13","15","15","He gave out to his men the watchword, “VICTORY IS GOD’S”, with a chosen force of the bravest young men he attacked by the king’s pavilion by night, and killed of his army as many as two thousand men, and brought down the leading elephant with him who was in the tower on him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_16","053_13_16","2MA","13","16","16","At last they filled the army with terror and alarm, and departed with good success. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_17","053_13_17","2MA","13","17","17","This had been accomplished when the day was just dawning, because of the Lord’s protection that gave Judas help. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_18","053_13_18","2MA","13","18","18","But the king, having had a taste of the exceeding boldness of the Jews, made strategic attacks on their positions, ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_20","053_13_20","2MA","13","20","20","Judas sent the things that were necessary to those who were within. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_21","053_13_21","2MA","13","21","21","But Rhodocus, from the Jewish ranks, made secrets known to the enemy. He was sought out, arrested, and shut up in prison. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_22","053_13_22","2MA","13","22","22","The king negotiated with them in Bethsura the second time, gave his hand, took theirs, departed, attacked the forces of Judas, was put to the worse, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_23","053_13_23","2MA","13","23","23","heard that Philip who had been left as chancellor in Antioch had become reckless, was confounded, made to the Jews an overture of peace, submitted himself and swore to acknowledge all their rights, came to terms with them and offered sacrifice, honored the sanctuary and the place, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_24","053_13_24","2MA","13","24","24","showed kindness and graciously received Maccabaeus, left Hegemonides governor from Ptolemais even to the Gerrenians, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_25","053_13_25","2MA","13","25","25","and came to Ptolemais. The men of Ptolemais were displeased at the treaty, for they had exceedingly great indignation against the Jews. They desired to annul the articles of the agreement. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M213_26","053_13_26","2MA","13","26","26","Lysias came forward to speak, made the best defense that was possible, persuaded, pacified, gained their good will, and departed to Antioch. This was the issue of the attack and departure of the king. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_2","053_14_2","2MA","14","2","2","had taken possession of the country, having made away with Antiochus and his guardian Lysias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_3","053_14_3","2MA","14","3","3","But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had willfully polluted himself in the times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, considering that there was no deliverance for him in any way, nor any more access to the holy altar, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_4","053_14_4","2MA","14","4","4","came to King Demetrius in about the one hundred fifty-first year, presenting to him a crown of gold and a palm, and beside these some of the festal olive boughs of the temple. For that day, he held his peace; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_5","053_14_5","2MA","14","5","5","but having gotten opportunity to further his own madness, being called by Demetrius into a meeting of his council, and asked how the Jews stood affected and what they intended, he answered: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_6","053_14_6","2MA","14","6","6","“Those of the Jews called Hasidaeans, whose leader is Judas Maccabaeus, keep up war and are seditious, not allowing the kingdom to find tranquillity. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_7","053_14_7","2MA","14","7","7","Therefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—I have now come here, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_8","053_14_8","2MA","14","8","8","first for the genuine care I have for the things that concern the king, and secondly because I have regard also to my own fellow citizens. For through the unadvised dealing of those of whom I spoke before, our whole race is in no small misfortune. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_9","053_14_9","2MA","14","9","9","O king, having informed yourself of these things, take thought both for our country and for our race, which is surrounded by enemies, according to the gracious kindness with which you receive all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_10","053_14_10","2MA","14","10","10","For as long as Judas remains alive, it is impossible for the government to find peace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_11","053_14_11","2MA","14","11","11","When he had spoken such words as these, at once the rest of the king’s friends, having ill will against Judas, inflamed Demetrius yet more. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_12","053_14_12","2MA","14","12","12","He immediately appointed Nicanor, who had been master of the elephants, and made him governor of Judea. He sent him out, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_13","053_14_13","2MA","14","13","13","giving him written instructions to kill Judas himself and to scatter those who were with him, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the great temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_14","053_14_14","2MA","14","14","14","Those in Judea who had driven Judas into exile thronged to Nicanor in flocks, supposing that the misfortunes and calamities of the Jews would be successes to themselves. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_15","053_14_15","2MA","14","15","15","But when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s advance and the assault of the heathen, they sprinkled dirt on their heads and made solemn prayers to him who had established his own people for evermore, and who always, making manifest his presence, upholds those who are his own heritage. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_16","053_14_16","2MA","14","16","16","When the leader had given orders, he immediately set out from there and joined battle with them at a village called Lessau. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_17","053_14_17","2MA","14","17","17","But Simon, the brother of Judas, had encountered Nicanor, yet not till late, having been delayed by reason of the sudden consternation caused by his adversaries. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_18","053_14_18","2MA","14","18","18","Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the valor of those who were with Judas, and their courage in fighting for their country, shrank from bringing the matter to the decision of the sword. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_19","053_14_19","2MA","14","19","19","Therefore he sent Posidonius, Theodotus, and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_20","053_14_20","2MA","14","20","20","So when these proposals had been long considered, and the leader had made the troops acquainted with them, and it appeared that they were all of like mind, they consented to the covenants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_21","053_14_21","2MA","14","21","21","They appointed a day on which to meet together by themselves. A chariot came forward from each army. They set up seats of honor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_22","053_14_22","2MA","14","22","22","Judas stationed armed men ready in convenient places, lest perhaps there should suddenly be treachery on the part of the enemy. They held a conference as was appropriate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_23","053_14_23","2MA","14","23","23","Nicanor waited in Jerusalem, and did nothing to cause disturbance, but dismissed the flocks of people that had gathered together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_24","053_14_24","2MA","14","24","24","He kept Judas always in his presence. He had gained a hearty affection for the man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_25","053_14_25","2MA","14","25","25","He urged him to marry and have children. He married, settled quietly, and took part in common life. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_26","053_14_26","2MA","14","26","26","But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, and having taken possession of the covenants that had been made, came to Demetrius and told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, for he had appointed that conspirator against his kingdom, Judas, to be his successor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_27","053_14_27","2MA","14","27","27","The king, falling into a rage, and being exasperated by the false accusations of that most wicked man, wrote to Nicanor, signifying that he was displeased at the covenants, and commanding him to send Maccabaeus prisoner to Antioch in all haste. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_28","053_14_28","2MA","14","28","28","When this message came to Nicanor, he was confounded, and was very troubled at the thought of annulling the articles that had been agreed upon, the man having done no wrong; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_29","053_14_29","2MA","14","29","29","but because there was no opposing the king, he watched his time to execute this purpose by strategy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_30","053_14_30","2MA","14","30","30","But Maccabaeus, when he perceived that Nicanor was behaving more harshly in his dealings with him, and that he had become ruler in his customary bearing, understanding that this harshness came not of good, gathered together not a few of his men, and concealed himself from Nicanor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_31","053_14_31","2MA","14","31","31","But the other, when he became aware that he had been bravely defeated by the strategy of Judas, came to the great and holy temple, while the priests were offering the usual sacrifices, and commanded them to hand over the man. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_32","053_14_32","2MA","14","32","32","When they declared with oaths that they had no knowledge where the man was whom he sought, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_33","053_14_33","2MA","14","33","33","he stretched out his right hand toward the sanctuary, and swore this oath: “If you won’t deliver up to me Judas as a prisoner, I will level this temple of God even with the ground, break down the altar, and I will erect here a temple to Dionysus for all to see. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_34","053_14_34","2MA","14","34","34","And having said this, he departed. But the priests, stretching forth their hands toward heaven, called upon him who always fights for our nation, in these words: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_35","053_14_35","2MA","14","35","35","“You, O Lord of the universe, who in yourself have need of nothing, were well pleased that a sanctuary of your habitation should be set among us. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_36","053_14_36","2MA","14","36","36","So now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled forever this house that has been recently cleansed.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_37","053_14_37","2MA","14","37","37","Now information was given to Nicanor against one Razis, an elder of Jerusalem, who was a lover of his countrymen and a man of very good report, and one called Father of the Jews for his good will. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_38","053_14_38","2MA","14","38","38","For in the former times when there was no mingling with the Gentiles, he had been accused of following the Jews’ religion, and had risked body and life with all earnestness for the religion of the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_39","053_14_39","2MA","14","39","39","Nicanor, wishing to make evident the ill will that he bore against the Jews, sent above five hundred soldiers to seize him; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_40","053_14_40","2MA","14","40","40","for he thought by seizing him to inflict an injury on them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_41","053_14_41","2MA","14","41","41","But when the troops were at the point of taking the tower, and were forcing the door of the court, and asked for fire to burn the doors, he, being surrounded on every side, fell upon his sword, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_42","053_14_42","2MA","14","42","42","choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_43","053_14_43","2MA","14","43","43","But since he missed his stroke through the excitement of the struggle, and the crowds were now rushing within the door, he ran bravely up to the wall and cast himself down bravely among the crowds. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_44","053_14_44","2MA","14","44","44","But as they quickly gave back, a space was made, and he fell on the middle of his side. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_45","053_14_45","2MA","14","45","45","Still having breath within him, and being inflamed with anger, he rose up, and though his blood gushed out in streams and his wounds were grievous, he ran through the crowds, and standing upon a steep rock, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M214_46","053_14_46","2MA","14","46","46","when as his blood was now well near spent, he drew forth his bowels through the wound, and taking them in both his hands he shook them at the crowds. Calling upon him who is Lord of life and spirit to restore him these again, he died like this. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_1","053_15_1","2MA","15","1","1","But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the region of Samaria, resolved to attack them with complete safety on the day of rest. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_2","053_15_2","2MA","15","2","2","When the Jews who were compelled to follow him said, “Don’t destroy so savagely and barbarously, but give due glory to the day which he who sees all things has honored and hallowed above other days.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_3","053_15_3","2MA","15","3","3","Then the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a Sovereign in heaven who had commanded to keep the Sabbath day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_4","053_15_4","2MA","15","4","4","When they declared, “There is the Lord, living himself as Sovereign in heaven, who told us observe the seventh day.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_5","053_15_5","2MA","15","5","5","He replied, “I also am a sovereign on the earth, who commands you to take up weapons and execute the king’s business.” Nevertheless he didn’t prevail to execute his cruel plan. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_6","053_15_6","2MA","15","6","6","And Nicanor, in his utter boastfulness and arrogance, had determined to set up a monument of complete victory over Judas and all those who were with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_7","053_15_7","2MA","15","7","7","But Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_8","053_15_8","2MA","15","8","8","He exhorted his company not to be fearful at the assault of the heathen, but keeping in mind the help which in former times they had often received from heaven, so now also to look for the victory which would come to them from the Almighty, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_9","053_15_9","2MA","15","9","9","and encouraging them out of the law and the prophets, and reminding them of the conflicts that they had won, he made them more eager. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_10","053_15_10","2MA","15","10","10","And when he had aroused their courage, he gave them orders, at the same time pointing out the faithlessness of the heathen and their breach of their oaths. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_11","053_15_11","2MA","15","11","11","Arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defense of shields and spears as with the encouragement of good words, and moreover relating to them a dream worthy to be believed, he made them all exceedingly glad. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_12","053_15_12","2MA","15","12","12","The vision of that dream was this: Onias, he who had been high priest, a noble and good man, modest in bearing, yet gentle in manner and well-spoken, and trained from a child in all points of virtue, with outstretched hands invoking blessings on the whole body of the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_13","053_15_13","2MA","15","13","13","Then he saw a man appear, of venerable age and exceeding glory, and the dignity around him was wonderful and most majestic. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_14","053_15_14","2MA","15","14","14","Onias answered and said, “This is the lover of the kindred, he who prays much for the people and the holy city: Jeremiah the prophet of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_15","053_15_15","2MA","15","15","15","Jeremiah stretched out his right hand and delivered to Judas a gold sword, and in giving it addressed him thus: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_16","053_15_16","2MA","15","16","16","“Take this holy sword, a gift from God, with which you shall strike down the adversaries.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_17","053_15_17","2MA","15","17","17","Being encouraged by the words of Judas, which were noble and effective, and able to incite to virtue and to stir the souls of the young to manly courage, they determined not to carry on a campaign, but nobly to bear down upon the enemy, and fighting hand to hand with all courage bring the matter to a conclusion, because the city, the sanctuary, and the temple were in danger. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_18","053_15_18","2MA","15","18","18","For their fear for wives and children, and furthermore for family and relatives, was less important to them; but greatest and first was their fear for the consecrated sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_19","053_15_19","2MA","15","19","19","Also those who were shut up in the city were in no light distress, being troubled because of the encounter in the open country. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_20","053_15_20","2MA","15","20","20","When all were now waiting for the decision of the issue, and the enemy had already joined battle, and the army had been set in array, and the elephants brought back to a convenient post, and the cavalry deployed on the flanks, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_21","053_15_21","2MA","15","21","21","Maccabaeus, perceiving the presence of the troops, and the various weapons with which they were equipped, and the savageness of the elephants, holding up his hands to heaven called upon the Lord who works wonders, knowing that success comes not by weapons, but that, according to how the Lord judges, he gains the victory for those who are worthy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_22","053_15_22","2MA","15","22","22","And calling upon God, he said this: “You, O Sovereign Lord, sent your angel in the time of King Hezekiah of Judea, and he killed of the army of Sennacherib as many as one hundred eighty-five thousand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_23","053_15_23","2MA","15","23","23","So now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_24","053_15_24","2MA","15","24","24","Through the greatness of your arm let them be stricken with dismay who with blasphemy have come here against your holy people.” As he finished these words, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_25","053_15_25","2MA","15","25","25","Nicanor and his company advanced with trumpets and victory songs; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_26","053_15_26","2MA","15","26","26","but Judas and his company joined battle with the enemy with invocation and prayers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_27","053_15_27","2MA","15","27","27","Fighting with their hands and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty-five thousand men, being made exceedingly glad by the manifestation of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_28","053_15_28","2MA","15","28","28","When the engagement was over and they were returning again with joy, they recognized Nicanor lying dead in full armor. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_29","053_15_29","2MA","15","29","29","Then there was shouting and noise, and they blessed the Sovereign Lord in the language of their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_30","053_15_30","2MA","15","30","30","He who in all things was in body and soul the foremost champion of his fellow-citizens, he who kept through life the good will of his youth toward his countrymen, ordered that Nicanor’s head be cut off with his hand and arm, and that they be brought to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_31","053_15_31","2MA","15","31","31","When he had arrived there and had called his countrymen together and set the priests before the altar, he sent for those who were in the citadel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_32","053_15_32","2MA","15","32","32","Showing the head of the vile Nicanor and the hand of that profane man, which with proud brags he had stretched out against the holy house of the Almighty, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_33","053_15_33","2MA","15","33","33","and cutting out the tongue of the impious Nicanor, he said that he would give it in pieces to the birds, and hang up these rewards of his folly near the sanctuary. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_34","053_15_34","2MA","15","34","34","They all, looking up to heaven, blessed the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, “Blessed is he who has preserved his own place undefiled!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_35","053_15_35","2MA","15","35","35","He hung Nicanor’s head and shoulder from the citadel, a clear sign evident to all of the help of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_36","053_15_36","2MA","15","36","36","They all ordained with a common decree to in no way let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian language), the day before the day of Mordecai. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_37","053_15_37","2MA","15","37","37","This then having been the account of the attempt of Nicanor, and the city having from those times been held by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my book. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_38","053_15_38","2MA","15","38","38","If I have written well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if its poorly done and mediocre, this is the best I could do. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M215_39","053_15_39","2MA","15","39","39","For as it is distasteful to drink wine alone and likewise to drink water alone, while the mingling of wine with water at once gives full pleasantness to the flavor; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story. Here is the end. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_1","054_1_1","1ES","1","1","1","Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_2","054_1_2","1ES","1","2","2","having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the Lord’s temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_3","054_1_3","1ES","1","3","3","He spoke to the Levites, the temple servants of Israel, that they should make themselves holy to the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon the son of David had built. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_4","054_1_4","1ES","1","4","4","He said, “You no longer need to carry it on your shoulders. Now therefore serve the Lord your God, and minister to his people Israel, and prepare yourselves by your fathers’ houses and kindred, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_5","054_1_5","1ES","1","5","5","according to the writing of King David of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his son. Stand in the holy place according to the divisions of your Levite families who minister in the presence of your kindred the descendants of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_6","054_1_6","1ES","1","6","6","Offer the Passover in order, prepare the sacrifices for your kindred, and keep the Passover according to the Lord’s commandment, which was given to Moses. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_13","054_1_13","1ES","1","13","13","and set them before all the people. Afterward they prepared for themselves and for their kindred the priests, the sons of Aaron. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_16","054_1_16","1ES","1","16","16","Moreover the gatekeepers were at every gate. No one needed to depart from his daily duties, for their kindred the Levites prepared for them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_17","054_1_17","1ES","1","17","17","So the things that belonged to the Lord’s sacrifices were accomplished in that day, in holding the Passover, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_18","054_1_18","1ES","1","18","18","and offering sacrifices on the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_25","054_1_25","1ES","1","25","25","Now after all these acts of Josias, it came to pass that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates; and Josias went out against him. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_27","054_1_27","1ES","1","27","27","I wasn’t sent out from the Lord God against you, for my war is against the Euphrates. Now the Lord is with me, yes, the Lord is with me hastening me forward. Depart from me, and don’t be against the Lord.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_28","054_1_28","1ES","1","28","28","However, Josias didn’t turn back to his chariot, but tried to fight with him, not regarding the words of the prophet Jeremy from the Lord’s mouth, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_29","054_1_29","1ES","1","29","29","but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the commanders came down against King Josias. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_31","054_1_31","1ES","1","31","31","Then he got into his second chariot. After he was brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_32","054_1_32","1ES","1","32","32","All Judea mourned for Josias. Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief men with the women made lamentation for him to this day. This was given out for an ordinance to be done continually in all the nation of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_33","054_1_33","1ES","1","33","33","These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the acts that Josias did, and his glory, and his understanding in the law of the Lord, and the things that he had done before, and the things now told, are reported in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_35","054_1_35","1ES","1","35","35","He reigned in Judah and Jerusalem for three months. Then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_36","054_1_36","1ES","1","36","36","He set a tax upon the people of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_37","054_1_37","1ES","1","37","37","The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judea and Jerusalem. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_40","054_1_40","1ES","1","40","40","King Nabuchodonosor of Babylon came up against him, bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him to Babylon. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_42","054_1_42","1ES","1","42","42","But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the chronicles of the kings. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_44","054_1_44","1ES","1","44","44","He reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil before the Lord. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_46","054_1_46","1ES","1","46","46","and made Sedekias king of Judea and Jerusalem when he was twenty-one years old. He reigned eleven years. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_49","054_1_49","1ES","1","49","49","Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, exceeding all the defilements of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_50","054_1_50","1ES","1","50","50","The God of their ancestors sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compassion on them and on his dwelling place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_51","054_1_51","1ES","1","51","51","But they mocked his messengers. In the day when the Lord spoke, they scoffed at his prophets ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_52","054_1_52","1ES","1","52","52","until he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_53","054_1_53","1ES","1","53","53","They killed their young men with the sword around their holy temple, and spared neither young man or young woman, old man or child; but he delivered all of them into their hands. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_55","054_1_55","1ES","1","55","55","They burned the Lord’s house, broke down Jerusalem’s walls, and burned its towers with fire. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_56","054_1_56","1ES","1","56","56","As for her glorious things, they didn’t stop until they had brought them all to nothing. He carried the people who weren’t slain with the sword to Babylon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E11_57","054_1_57","1ES","1","57","57","They were servants to him and to his children until the Persians reigned, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy: ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_1","054_2_1","1ES","2","1","1","In the first year of King Cyrus of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremy might be accomplished, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_2","054_2_2","1ES","2","2","2","the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of the Persians, and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also by writing, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_3","054_2_3","1ES","2","3","3","saying, “Cyrus king of the Persians says: The Lord of Israel, the Most High Lord, has made me king of the whole world, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_4","054_2_4","1ES","2","4","4","and commanded me to build him a house at Jerusalem that is in Judea. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_5","054_2_5","1ES","2","5","5","If therefore there are any of you that are of his people, let the Lord, even his Lord, be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem that is in Judea, and build the house of the Lord of Israel. He is the Lord who dwells in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_6","054_2_6","1ES","2","6","6","Therefore, of those who dwell in various places, let those who are in his own place help each one with gold, with silver, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_7","054_2_7","1ES","2","7","7","with gifts, with horses, and cattle, beside the other things which have been added by vow for the temple of the Lord which is in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_8","054_2_8","1ES","2","8","8","Then the chief of the families of Judah and of the tribe of Benjamin stood up, with the priests, the Levites, and all whose spirit the Lord had stirred to go up, to build the house for the Lord which is in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_9","054_2_9","1ES","2","9","9","Those who lived around them helped them in all things with silver and gold, with horses and cattle, and with very many gifts that were vowed by a great number whose minds were so moved. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_10","054_2_10","1ES","2","10","10","King Cyrus also brought out the holy vessels of the Lord, which Nabuchodonosor had carried away from Jerusalem and had stored in his temple of idols. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_11","054_2_11","1ES","2","11","11","Now when King Cyrus of the Persians had brought them out, he delivered them to Mithradates his treasurer, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_12","054_2_12","1ES","2","12","12","and by him they were delivered to Sanabassar the governor of Judea. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_13","054_2_13","1ES","2","13","13","This was the number of them: one thousand gold cups, one thousand silver cups, twenty-nine silver censers, thirty gold bowls, two thousand four hundred ten silver bowls, and one thousand other vessels. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_14","054_2_14","1ES","2","14","14","So all the vessels of gold and of silver were brought up, even five thousand four hundred seventy-nine, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_15","054_2_15","1ES","2","15","15","and were carried back by Sanabassar, together with the returning exiles, from Babylon to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_16","054_2_16","1ES","2","16","16","In the time of King Artaxerxes of the Persians, Belemus, Mithradates, Tabellius, Rathumus, Beeltethmus, and Samellius the scribe, with their other associates, dwelling in Samaria and other places, wrote to him against those who lived in Judea and Jerusalem the following letter: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_17","054_2_17","1ES","2","17","17","“To King Artaxerxes our Lord, from your servants, Rathumus the recorder, Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges who are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_18","054_2_18","1ES","2","18","18","Let it now be known to our lord the king, that the Jews that have come up from you to us, having come to Jerusalem, are building that rebellious and wicked city, and are repairing its marketplaces and walls, and are laying the foundation of a temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_19","054_2_19","1ES","2","19","19","Now if this city is built and its walls are finished, they will not only refuse to give tribute, but will even stand up against kings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_20","054_2_20","1ES","2","20","20","Since the things pertaining to the temple are now in hand, we think it appropriate not to neglect such a matter, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_21","054_2_21","1ES","2","21","21","but to speak to our lord the king, to the intent that, if it is your pleasure, search may be made in the books of your ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_22","054_2_22","1ES","2","22","22","You will find in the chronicles what is written concerning these things, and will understand that that city was rebellious, troubling both kings and cities, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_23","054_2_23","1ES","2","23","23","and that the Jews were rebellious, and kept starting wars there in the past. For this cause, this city was laid waste. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_24","054_2_24","1ES","2","24","24","Therefore now we do declare to you, O lord the king, that if this city is built again, and its walls set up again, you will from then on have no passage into Coelesyria and Phoenicia.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_25","054_2_25","1ES","2","25","25","Then the king wrote back again to Rathumus the recorder, Beeltethmus, Samellius the scribe, and to the rest that of their associates who lived in Samaria, Syria, and Phoenicia, as follows: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_26","054_2_26","1ES","2","26","26","“I have read the letter which you have sent to me. Therefore I commanded to make search, and it has been found that that city of old time has fought against kings, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_27","054_2_27","1ES","2","27","27","and the men were given to rebellion and war in it, and that mighty and fierce kings were in Jerusalem, who reigned and exacted tribute in Coelesyria and Phoenicia. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_28","054_2_28","1ES","2","28","28","Now therefore I have commanded to prevent those men from building the city, and heed to be taken that there be nothing done contrary to this order, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_29","054_2_29","1ES","2","29","29","and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E12_30","054_2_30","1ES","2","30","30","Then King Artaxerxes, his letters being read, Rathumus, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their associates, went in haste to Jerusalem with cavalry and a multitude of people in battle array, and began to hinder the builders. So the building of the temple in Jerusalem ceased until the second year of the reign of King Darius of the Persians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_1","054_3_1","1ES","3","1","1","Now King Darius made a great feast for all his subjects, for all who were born in his house, for all the princes of Media and of Persia, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_2","054_3_2","1ES","3","2","2","and for all the local governors and captains and governors who were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the one hundred twenty seven provinces. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_3","054_3_3","1ES","3","3","3","They ate and drank, and when they were satisfied went home. Then King Darius went into his bedchamber slept, but awakened out of his sleep. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_4","054_3_4","1ES","3","4","4","Then the three young men of the bodyguard, who guarded the king, spoke one to another: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_5","054_3_5","1ES","3","5","5","“Let every one of us state what one thing is strongest. King Darius will give he whose statement seems wiser than the others great gifts and great honors in token of victory. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_6","054_3_6","1ES","3","6","6","He shall be clothed in purple, drink from gold cups, sleep on a gold bed, and have a chariot with bridles of gold, a fine linen turban, and a chain around his neck. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_7","054_3_7","1ES","3","7","7","He shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called cousin of Darius.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_8","054_3_8","1ES","3","8","8","Then they each wrote his sentence, sealed them, and laid them under King Darius’ pillow, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_9","054_3_9","1ES","3","9","9","and said, “When the king wakes up, someone will give him the writing. Whoever the king and the three princes of Persia judge that his sentence is the wisest, to him shall the victory be given, as it is written.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_10","054_3_10","1ES","3","10","10","The first wrote, “Wine is the strongest.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_11","054_3_11","1ES","3","11","11","The second wrote, “The king is strongest.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_12","054_3_12","1ES","3","12","12","The third wrote, “Women are strongest, but above all things Truth is the victor.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_13","054_3_13","1ES","3","13","13","Now when the king woke up, they took the writing and gave it to him, so he read it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_14","054_3_14","1ES","3","14","14","Sending out, he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, the local governors, the captains, the governors, and the chief officers ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_15","054_3_15","1ES","3","15","15","and sat himself down in the royal seat of judgment; and the writing was read before them. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_23","054_3_23","1ES","3","23","23","But when they awake from their wine, they don’t remember what they have done. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E13_24","054_3_24","1ES","3","24","24","O sirs, isn’t wine the strongest, seeing that it forces people to do this?” And when he had said this, he stopped speaking. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_1","054_4_1","1ES","4","1","1","Then the second, who had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_5","054_4_5","1ES","4","5","5","They kill and are killed, and don’t disobey the king’s commandment. If they win the victory, they bring everything to the king—all the plunder and everything else. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_6","054_4_6","1ES","4","6","6","Likewise for those who are not soldiers, and don’t have anything to do with wars, but farm, when they have reaped again that which they had sown, they bring some to the king and compel one another to pay tribute to the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_7","054_4_7","1ES","4","7","7","He is just one man! If he commands people to kill, they kill. If he commands them to spare, they spare. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_8","054_4_8","1ES","4","8","8","If he commands them to strike, they strike. If he commands them to make desolate, they make desolate. If he commands to build, they build. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_9","054_4_9","1ES","4","9","9","If he commands them to cut down, they cut down. If he commands them to plant, they plant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_10","054_4_10","1ES","4","10","10","So all his people and his armies obey him. Furthermore, he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_11","054_4_11","1ES","4","11","11","and these keep watch around him. None of them may depart and do his own business. They don’t disobey him in anything. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_12","054_4_12","1ES","4","12","12","O sirs, how could the king not be the strongest, seeing that he is obeyed like this?” Then he stopped talking. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_13","054_4_13","1ES","4","13","13","Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_14","054_4_14","1ES","4","14","14","“O sirs, isn’t the king great, and men are many, and isn’t wine strong? Who is it then who rules them, or has the lordship over them? Aren’t they women? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_15","054_4_15","1ES","4","15","15","Women have given birth to the king and all the people who rule over sea and land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_16","054_4_16","1ES","4","16","16","They came from women. Women nourished up those who planted the vineyards, from where the wine comes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_17","054_4_17","1ES","4","17","17","Women also make garments for men. These bring glory to men. Without women, men can’t exist. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_18","054_4_18","1ES","4","18","18","Yes, and if men have gathered together gold and silver and any other beautiful thing, and see a woman who is lovely in appearance and beauty, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_19","054_4_19","1ES","4","19","19","they let all those things go and gape at her, and with open mouth stare at her. They all have more desire for her than for gold, or silver, or any other beautiful thing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_20","054_4_20","1ES","4","20","20","A man leaves his own father who brought him up, leaves his own country, and joins with his wife. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_21","054_4_21","1ES","4","21","21","With his wife he ends his days, with no thought for his father, mother, or country. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_22","054_4_22","1ES","4","22","22","By this also you must know that women have dominion over you. Don’t you labor and toil, and bring it all to give to women? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_23","054_4_23","1ES","4","23","23","Yes, a man takes his sword and goes out to travel, to rob, to steal, and to sail on the sea and on rivers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_24","054_4_24","1ES","4","24","24","He sees a lion and walks in the darkness. When he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to the woman he loves. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_25","054_4_25","1ES","4","25","25","Therefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_26","054_4_26","1ES","4","26","26","Yes, there are many who have lost their minds for women, and become slaves for their sakes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_27","054_4_27","1ES","4","27","27","Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_28","054_4_28","1ES","4","28","28","Now don’t you believe me? Isn’t the king great in his power? Don’t all regions fear to touch him? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_29","054_4_29","1ES","4","29","29","Yet I saw him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_30","054_4_30","1ES","4","30","30","and taking the crown from the king’s head, and setting it upon her own head. Yes, she struck the king with her left hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_31","054_4_31","1ES","4","31","31","At this, the king gaped and gazed at her with open mouth. If she smiles at him, he laughs. But if she takes any displeasure at him, he flatters her, that she might be reconciled to him again. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_32","054_4_32","1ES","4","32","32","O sirs, how can it not be that women are strong, seeing they do this?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_33","054_4_33","1ES","4","33","33","Then the king and the nobles looked at one another. So he began to speak concerning truth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_34","054_4_34","1ES","4","34","34","“O sirs, aren’t women strong? The earth is great. The sky is high. The sun is swift in its course, for it circles around the sky, and returns on its course again in one day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_35","054_4_35","1ES","4","35","35","Isn’t he who makes these things great? Therefore the truth is great, and stronger than all things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_36","054_4_36","1ES","4","36","36","All the earth calls upon truth, and the sky blesses truth. All works shake and tremble, but with truth there is no unrighteous thing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_37","054_4_37","1ES","4","37","37","Wine is unrighteous. The king is unrighteous. Women are unrighteous. All the children of men are unrighteous, and all their works are unrighteous. There is no truth in them. They shall also perish in their unrighteousness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_38","054_4_38","1ES","4","38","38","But truth remains, and is strong forever. Truth lives and conquers forevermore. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_39","054_4_39","1ES","4","39","39","With truth there is no partiality toward persons or rewards, but truth does the things that are just, instead of any unrighteous or wicked things. All men approve truth’s works. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_40","054_4_40","1ES","4","40","40","In truth’s judgment is not any unrighteousness. Truth is the strength, the kingdom, the power, and the majesty of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_41","054_4_41","1ES","4","41","41","With that, he stopped speaking. Then all the people shouted and said, “Great is truth, and strong above all things!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_42","054_4_42","1ES","4","42","42","Then the king said to him, “Ask what you wish, even more than is appointed in writing, and we will give it to you, because you are found wisest. You shall sit next me, and shall be called my cousin.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_43","054_4_43","1ES","4","43","43","Then he said to the king, “Remember your vow, which you vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_44","054_4_44","1ES","4","44","44","and to send back all the vessels that were taken out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and vowed to send them back there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_45","054_4_45","1ES","4","45","45","You also vowed to build the temple which the Edomites burned when Judea was made desolate by the Chaldeans. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_46","054_4_46","1ES","4","46","46","Now, O lord the king, this is what I request, and what I desire of you, and this is the princely generosity that may proceed from you: I ask therefore that you make good the vow, the performance of which you have vowed to the King of Heaven with your own mouth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_47","054_4_47","1ES","4","47","47","Then King Darius stood up, kissed him, and wrote letters for him to all the treasurers and governors and captains and local governors, that they should safely bring on their way both him, and all those who would go up with him to build Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_48","054_4_48","1ES","4","48","48","He wrote letters also to all the governors who were in Coelesyria and Phoenicia, and to them in Libanus, that they should bring cedar wood from Libanus to Jerusalem, and that they should help him build the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_49","054_4_49","1ES","4","49","49","Moreover he wrote for all the Jews who would go out of his realm up into Judea concerning their freedom, that no officer, no governor, no local governor, nor treasurer, should forcibly enter into their doors, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_50","054_4_50","1ES","4","50","50","and that all the country which they occupied should be free to them without tribute, and that the Edomites should give up the villages of the Jews which they held at that time, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_51","054_4_51","1ES","4","51","51","and that there should be given twenty talents yearly toward the building of the temple, until the time that it was built, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_52","054_4_52","1ES","4","52","52","and another ten talents yearly for burnt offerings to be presented upon the altar every day, as they had a commandment to make seventeen offerings, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_53","054_4_53","1ES","4","53","53","and that all those who would come from Babylonia to build the city should have their freedom—they and their descendants, and all the priests that came. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_54","054_4_54","1ES","4","54","54","He wrote also to give them their support and the priests’ vestments in which they minister. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_55","054_4_55","1ES","4","55","55","For the Levites he wrote that their support should be given them until the day that the house was finished and Jerusalem built up. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_56","054_4_56","1ES","4","56","56","He commanded that land and wages should be given to all who guarded the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_57","054_4_57","1ES","4","57","57","He also sent away all the vessels from Babylon that Cyrus had set apart, and all that Cyrus had given in commandment, he commanded also to be done and to be sent to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_58","054_4_58","1ES","4","58","58","Now when this young man had gone out, he lifted up his face to heaven toward Jerusalem, and praised the King of heaven, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_59","054_4_59","1ES","4","59","59","and said, “From you comes victory. From you comes wisdom. Yours is the glory, and I am your servant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_60","054_4_60","1ES","4","60","60","Blessed are you, who have given me wisdom. I give thanks to you, O Lord of our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_61","054_4_61","1ES","4","61","61","So he took the letters, went out, came to Babylon, and told it all his kindred. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_62","054_4_62","1ES","4","62","62","They praised the God of their ancestors, because he had given them freedom and liberty ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E14_63","054_4_63","1ES","4","63","63","to go up and to build Jerusalem and the temple which is called by his name. They feasted with instruments of music and gladness seven days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_1","054_5_1","1ES","5","1","1","After this, the chiefs of fathers’ houses were chosen to go up according to their tribes, with their wives, sons, and daughters, with their menservants and maidservants, and their livestock. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_2","054_5_2","1ES","5","2","2","Darius sent with them one thousand cavalry to bring them back to Jerusalem with peace, with musical instruments, drums, and flutes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_3","054_5_3","1ES","5","3","3","All their kindred were making merry, and he made them go up together with them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_4","054_5_4","1ES","5","4","4","These are the names of the men who went up, according to their families among their tribes, after their several divisions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_5","054_5_5","1ES","5","5","5","The priests, the sons of Phinees, the sons of Aaron: Jesus the son of Josedek, the son of Saraias, and Joakim the son of Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, of the house of David, of the lineage of Phares, of the tribe of Judah, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_6","054_5_6","1ES","5","6","6","who spoke wise words before Darius the king of Persia in the second year of his reign, in the month Nisan, which is the first month. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_7","054_5_7","1ES","5","7","7","These are the of Judeans who came up from the captivity, where they lived as foreigners, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_8","054_5_8","1ES","5","8","8","They returned to Jerusalem and to the other parts of Judea, every man to his own city, who came with Zorobabel, with Jesus, Nehemias, Zaraias, Resaias, Eneneus, Mardocheus, Beelsarus, Aspharsus, Reelias, Roimus, and Baana, their leaders. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_9","054_5_9","1ES","5","9","9","The number of them of the nation and their leaders: the sons of Phoros, two thousand one hundred seventy two; the sons of Saphat, four hundred seventy two; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_10","054_5_10","1ES","5","10","10","the sons of Ares, seven hundred fifty six; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_11","054_5_11","1ES","5","11","11","the sons of Phaath Moab, of the sons of Jesus and Joab, two thousand eight hundred twelve; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_12","054_5_12","1ES","5","12","12","the sons of Elam, one thousand two hundred fifty four; the sons of Zathui, nine hundred forty five; the sons of Chorbe, seven hundred five; the sons of Bani, six hundred forty eight; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_13","054_5_13","1ES","5","13","13","the sons of Bebai, six hundred twenty three; the sons of Astad, one thousand three hundred twenty two; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_14","054_5_14","1ES","5","14","14","the sons of Adonikam, six hundred sixty seven; the sons of Bagoi, two thousand sixty six; the sons of Adinu, four hundred fifty four; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_15","054_5_15","1ES","5","15","15","the sons of Ater, of Ezekias, ninety two; the sons of Kilan and Azetas, sixty seven; the sons of Azaru, four hundred thirty two; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_16","054_5_16","1ES","5","16","16","the sons of Annis, one hundred one; the sons of Arom, the sons of Bassai, three hundred twenty three; the sons of Arsiphurith, one hundred twelve; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_17","054_5_17","1ES","5","17","17","the sons of Baiterus, three thousand five; the sons of Bethlomon, one hundred twenty three; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_18","054_5_18","1ES","5","18","18","those from Netophas, fifty five; those from Anathoth, one hundred fifty eight; those from Bethasmoth, forty two; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_19","054_5_19","1ES","5","19","19","those from Kariathiarius, twenty five: those from Caphira and Beroth, seven hundred forty three; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_20","054_5_20","1ES","5","20","20","the Chadiasai and Ammidioi, four hundred twenty two; those from Kirama and Gabbe, six hundred twenty one; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_21","054_5_21","1ES","5","21","21","those from Macalon, one hundred twenty two; those from Betolion, fifty two; the sons of Niphis, one hundred fifty six; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_22","054_5_22","1ES","5","22","22","the sons of Calamolalus and Onus, seven hundred twenty five; the sons of Jerechu, three hundred forty five; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_23","054_5_23","1ES","5","23","23","and the sons of Sanaas, three thousand three hundred thirty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_24","054_5_24","1ES","5","24","24","The priests: the sons of Jeddu, the son of Jesus, among the sons of Sanasib, nine hundred seventy two; the sons of Emmeruth, one thousand fifty two; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_25","054_5_25","1ES","5","25","25","the sons of Phassurus, one thousand two hundred forty seven; and the sons of Charme, one thousand seventeen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_26","054_5_26","1ES","5","26","26","The Levites: the sons of Jesus, Kadmiel, Bannas, and Sudias, seventy four. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_27","054_5_27","1ES","5","27","27","The holy singers: the sons of Asaph, one hundred twenty eight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_28","054_5_28","1ES","5","28","28","The gatekeepers: the sons of Salum, the sons of Atar, the sons of Tolman, the sons of Dacubi, the sons of Ateta, the sons of Sabi, in all one hundred thirty nine. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_29","054_5_29","1ES","5","29","29","The temple servants: the sons of Esau, the sons of Asipha, the sons of Tabaoth, the sons of Keras, the sons of Sua, the sons of Phaleas, the sons of Labana, the sons of Aggaba. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_30","054_5_30","1ES","5","30","30","the sons of Acud, the sons of Uta, the sons of Ketab, the sons of Accaba, the sons of Subai, the sons of Anan, the sons of Cathua, the sons of Geddur, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_31","054_5_31","1ES","5","31","31","the sons of Jairus, the sons of Daisan, the sons of Noeba, the sons of Chaseba, the sons of Gazera, the sons of Ozias, the sons of Phinoe, the sons of Asara, the sons of Basthai, the sons of Asana, the sons of Maani, the sons of Naphisi, the sons of Acub, the sons of Achipha, the sons of Asur, the sons of Pharakim, the sons of Basaloth, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_32","054_5_32","1ES","5","32","32","the sons of Meedda, the sons of Cutha, the sons of Charea, the sons of Barchus, the sons of Serar, the sons of Thomei, the sons of Nasi, the sons of Atipha. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_33","054_5_33","1ES","5","33","33","The sons of the servants of Solomon: the sons of Assaphioth, the sons of Pharida, the sons of Jeeli, the sons of Lozon, the sons of Isdael, the sons of Saphuthi, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_34","054_5_34","1ES","5","34","34","the sons of Agia, the sons of Phacareth, the sons of Sabie, the sons of Sarothie, the sons of Masias, the sons of Gas, the sons of Addus, the sons of Subas, the sons of Apherra, the sons of Barodis, the sons of Saphat, the sons of Allon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_35","054_5_35","1ES","5","35","35","All the temple-servants and the sons of the servants of Solomon were three hundred seventy two. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_36","054_5_36","1ES","5","36","36","These came up from Thermeleth, and Thelersas, Charaathalan leading them, and Allar; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_37","054_5_37","1ES","5","37","37","and they could not show their families, nor their stock, how they were of Israel: the sons of Dalan the son of Ban, the sons of Nekodan, six hundred fifty two. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_38","054_5_38","1ES","5","38","38","Of the priests, those who usurped the office of the priesthood and were not found: the sons of Obdia, the sons of Akkos, the sons of Jaddus, who married Augia one of the daughters of Zorzelleus, and was called after his name. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_40","054_5_40","1ES","5","40","40","for Nehemias and Attharias told them that they should not be partakers of the holy things until a high priest wearing Urim and Thummim should arise. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_41","054_5_41","1ES","5","41","41","So all those of Israel, from twelve years old and upward, beside menservants and women servants, were in number forty two thousand three hundred sixty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_42","054_5_42","1ES","5","42","42","Their menservants and handmaids were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven; the minstrels and singers, two hundred forty five; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_43","054_5_43","1ES","5","43","43","four hundred thirty and five camels, seven thousand thirty six horses, two hundred forty five mules, and five thousand five hundred twenty five beasts of burden. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_44","054_5_44","1ES","5","44","44","And some of the chief men of their families, when they came to the temple of God that is in Jerusalem, vowed to set up the house again in its own place according to their ability, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_45","054_5_45","1ES","5","45","45","and to give into the holy treasury of the works one thousand minas of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly vestments. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_46","054_5_46","1ES","5","46","46","The priests and the Levites and some of the people lived in Jerusalem and the country. The holy singers also and the gatekeepers and all Israel lived in their villages. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_47","054_5_47","1ES","5","47","47","But when the seventh month was at hand, and when the children of Israel were each in their own place, they all came together with one purpose into the broad place before the first porch which is toward the east. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_48","054_5_48","1ES","5","48","48","Then Jesus the son of Josedek, his kindred the priests, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and his kindred stood up and made the altar of the God of Israel ready ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_50","054_5_50","1ES","5","50","50","Some people joined them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were hostile to them and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices at the proper times and burnt offerings to the Lord both morning and evening. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_51","054_5_51","1ES","5","51","51","They also held the feast of tabernacles, as it is commanded in the law, and offered sacrifices daily, as appropriate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_52","054_5_52","1ES","5","52","52","After that, they offered the continual oblations and the sacrifices of the Sabbaths, of the new moons, and of all the consecrated feasts. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_56","054_5_56","1ES","5","56","56","In the second year after his coming to the temple of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, Jesus the son of Josedek, their kindred, the Levitical priests, and all those who had come to Jerusalem out of the captivity began work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_57","054_5_57","1ES","5","57","57","They laid the foundation of God’s temple on the new moon of the second month, in the second year after they had come to Judea and Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_58","054_5_58","1ES","5","58","58","They appointed the Levites who were at least twenty years old over the Lord’s works. Then Jesus, with his sons and kindred, Kadmiel his brother, the sons of Jesus, Emadabun, and the sons of Joda the son of Iliadun, and their sons and kindred, all the Levites, with one accord stood up and started the business, laboring to advance the works in the house of God. So the builders built the Lord’s temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_59","054_5_59","1ES","5","59","59","The priests stood arrayed in their vestments with musical instruments and trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with their cymbals, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_60","054_5_60","1ES","5","60","60","singing songs of thanksgiving and praising the Lord, according to the directions of King David of Israel. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_62","054_5_62","1ES","5","62","62","All the people sounded trumpets and shouted with a loud voice, singing songs of thanksgiving to the Lord for the raising up of the Lord’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_63","054_5_63","1ES","5","63","63","Some of the Levitical priests and of the heads of their families, the elderly who had seen the former house came to the building of this one with lamentation and great weeping. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_64","054_5_64","1ES","5","64","64","But many with trumpets and joy shouted with a loud voice, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_65","054_5_65","1ES","5","65","65","so that the people couldn’t hear the trumpets for the weeping of the people, for the multitude sounded loudly, so that it was heard far away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_66","054_5_66","1ES","5","66","66","Therefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets meant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_67","054_5_67","1ES","5","67","67","They learned that those who returned from captivity built the temple for the Lord, the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_68","054_5_68","1ES","5","68","68","So they went to Zorobabel and Jesus, and to the chief men of the families, and said to them, “We will build together with you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_69","054_5_69","1ES","5","69","69","For we, just like you, obey your Lord, and sacrifice to him from the days of King Asbasareth of the Assyrians, who brought us here.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_70","054_5_70","1ES","5","70","70","Then Zorobabel, Jesus and the chief men of the families of Israel said to them, “It is not for you to build the house for the Lord our God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_71","054_5_71","1ES","5","71","71","We ourselves alone will build for the Lord of Israel, as King Cyrus of the Persians has commanded us.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_72","054_5_72","1ES","5","72","72","But the heathen of the land pressed hard upon the inhabitants of Judea, cut off their supplies, and hindered their building. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E15_73","054_5_73","1ES","5","73","73","By their secret plots, and popular persuasions and commotions, they hindered the finishing of the building all the time that King Cyrus lived. So they were hindered from building for two years, until the reign of Darius. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_1","054_6_1","1ES","6","1","1","Now in the second year of the reign of Darius, Aggaeus and Zacharius the son of Addo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews in Judea and Jerusalem in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_2","054_6_2","1ES","6","2","2","Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel and Jesus the son of Josedek stood up and began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the prophets of the Lord being with them and helping them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_3","054_6_3","1ES","6","3","3","At the same time Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia came to them, with Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_4","054_6_4","1ES","6","4","4","“By whose authority do you build this house and this roof, and perform all the other things? Who are the builders who do these things?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_5","054_6_5","1ES","6","5","5","Nevertheless, the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captives; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_6","054_6_6","1ES","6","6","6","and they were not hindered from building until such time as communication was made to Darius concerning them, and his answer received. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_7","054_6_7","1ES","6","7","7","A copy of the letter which Sisinnes, governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, with their companions, the rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, wrote and sent to Darius: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_8","054_6_8","1ES","6","8","8","“To King Darius, greetings. Let it be fully known to our lord the king, that having come into the country of Judea, and entered into the city of Jerusalem, we found in the city of Jerusalem the elders of the Jews that were of the captivity ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_9","054_6_9","1ES","6","9","9","building a great new house for the Lord of hewn and costly stones, with timber laid in the walls. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_10","054_6_10","1ES","6","10","10","Those works are being done with great speed. The work goes on prosperously in their hands, and it is being accomplished with all glory and diligence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_11","054_6_11","1ES","6","11","11","Then asked we these elders, saying, ‘By whose authority are you building this house and laying the foundations of these works?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_12","054_6_12","1ES","6","12","12","Therefore, to the intent that we might give knowledge to you by writing who were the leaders, we questioned them, and we required of them the names in writing of their principal men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_13","054_6_13","1ES","6","13","13","So they gave us this answer, ‘We are the servants of the Lord who made heaven and earth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_14","054_6_14","1ES","6","14","14","As for this house, it was built many years ago by a great and strong king of Israel, and was finished. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_15","054_6_15","1ES","6","15","15","But when our fathers sinned against the Lord of Israel who is in heaven, and provoked him to wrath, he gave them over into the hands of King Nabuchodonosor of Babylon, king of the Chaldeans. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_16","054_6_16","1ES","6","16","16","They pulled down the house, burned it, and carried away the people captive to Babylon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_17","054_6_17","1ES","6","17","17","But in the first year that Cyrus reigned over the country of Babylon, King Cyrus wrote that this house should be rebuilt. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_19","054_6_19","1ES","6","19","19","with commandment that he should carry away all these vessels, and put them in the temple at Jerusalem, and that the Lord’s temple should be built on its site. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_20","054_6_20","1ES","6","20","20","Then Sanabassarus, having come here, laid the foundations of the Lord’s house which is in Jerusalem. From that time to this we are still building. It is not yet fully completed.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_21","054_6_21","1ES","6","21","21","Now therefore, if it seems good, O king, let a search be made among the royal archives of our lord the king that are in Babylon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_22","054_6_22","1ES","6","22","22","If it is found that the building of the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem has been done with the consent of King Cyrus, and it seems good to our lord the king, let him send us directions concerning these things.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_23","054_6_23","1ES","6","23","23","Then King Darius commanded that a search be made among the archives that were laid up at Babylon. So at Ekbatana the palace, which is in the country of Media, a scroll was found where these things were recorded: ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_25","054_6_25","1ES","6","25","25","Its height shall be sixty cubits, and the breadth sixty cubits, with three rows of hewn stones, and one row of new wood from that country. Its expenses are to be given out of the house of King Cyrus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_26","054_6_26","1ES","6","26","26","The holy vessels of the house of the Lord, both gold and silver, that Nabuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem and carried away to Babylon, should be restored to the house at Jerusalem, and be set in the place where they were before.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_27","054_6_27","1ES","6","27","27","Also he commanded that Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia, and Sathrabuzanes, and their companions, and those who were appointed rulers in Syria and Phoenicia, should be careful not to meddle with the place, but allow Zorobabel, the servant of the Lord, and governor of Judea, and the elders of the Jews, to build that house of the Lord in its place. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_29","054_6_29","1ES","6","29","29","and that out of the tribute of Coelesyria and Phoenicia a portion shall be carefully given to these men for the sacrifices of the Lord, that is, to Zorobabel the governor for bulls, rams, and lambs, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_30","054_6_30","1ES","6","30","30","and also corn, salt, wine and oil, and that continually every year without further question, according as the priests who are in Jerusalem may direct to be daily spent, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_31","054_6_31","1ES","6","31","31","that drink offerings may be made to the Most High God for the king and for his children, and that they may pray for their lives.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_32","054_6_32","1ES","6","32","32","He commanded that whoever should transgress, yes, or neglect anything written here, a beam shall be taken out of his own house, and he shall be hanged on it, and all his goods seized for the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_33","054_6_33","1ES","6","33","33","“Therefore may the Lord, whose name is called upon there, utterly destroy every king and nation that stretches out his hand to hinder or damage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E16_34","054_6_34","1ES","6","34","34","I, King Darius have ordained that these things be done with diligence.” ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_2","054_7_2","1ES","7","2","2","very carefully supervised the holy work, assisting the elders of the Jews and rulers of the temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_3","054_7_3","1ES","7","3","3","So the holy work prospered, while Aggaeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_4","054_7_4","1ES","7","4","4","They finished these things by the commandment of the Lord, the God of Israel, and with the consent of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of the Persians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_5","054_7_5","1ES","7","5","5","So the holy house was finished by the twenty-third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of King Darius. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_6","054_7_6","1ES","7","6","6","The children of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the others who returned from captivity who joined them did what was written in the book of Moses. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_7","054_7_7","1ES","7","7","7","For the dedication of the Lord’s temple, they offered one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_8","054_7_8","1ES","7","8","8","and twelve male goats for the sin of all Israel, according to the number of the twelve princes of the tribes of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_9","054_7_9","1ES","7","9","9","The priests and the Levites stood arrayed in their vestments, according to their kindred, for the services of the Lord, the God of Israel, according to the book of Moses. The gatekeepers were at every gate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_10","054_7_10","1ES","7","10","10","The children of Israel who came out of captivity held the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, when the priests and the Levites were sanctified together, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_11","054_7_11","1ES","7","11","11","with all those who returned from captivity; for they were sanctified. For the Levites were all sanctified together, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_12","054_7_12","1ES","7","12","12","and they offered the Passover for all who returned from captivity, for their kindred the priests, and for themselves. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_13","054_7_13","1ES","7","13","13","The children of Israel who came out of the captivity ate, even all those who had separated themselves from the abominations of the heathen of the land, and sought the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_14","054_7_14","1ES","7","14","14","They kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, rejoicing before the Lord, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E17_15","054_7_15","1ES","7","15","15","because he had turned the counsel of the king of Assyria toward them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord, the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_1","054_8_1","1ES","8","1","1","After these things, when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned, Esdras came, who was the son of Azaraias, the son of Zechrias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salem, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_2","054_8_2","1ES","8","2","2","the son of Sadduk, the son of Ahitob, the son of Amarias, the son of Ozias, the son of Memeroth, the son of Zaraias, the son of Savias, the son of Boccas, the son of Abisne, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, the chief priest. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_3","054_8_3","1ES","8","3","3","This Esdras went up from Babylon as a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which was given by the God of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_4","054_8_4","1ES","8","4","4","The king honored him, for he found favor in his sight in all his requests. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_5","054_8_5","1ES","8","5","5","There went up with him also some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, Levites, holy singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants to Jerusalem ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_6","054_8_6","1ES","8","6","6","in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, in the fifth month (this was the king’s seventh year); for they left Babylon on the new moon of the first month and came to Jerusalem, by the prosperous journey which the Lord gave them for his sake. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_7","054_8_7","1ES","8","7","7","For Esdras had very great skill, so that he omitted nothing of the law and commandments of the Lord, but taught all Israel the ordinances and judgments. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_8","054_8_8","1ES","8","8","8","Now the commission, which was written from King Artaxerxes, came to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, was as follows: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_9","054_8_9","1ES","8","9","9","“King Artaxerxes to Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Lord, greetings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_10","054_8_10","1ES","8","10","10","Having determined to deal graciously, I have given orders that those of the nation of the Jews, and of the priests and Levites, and of those within our realm who are willing and freely choose to, should go with you to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_11","054_8_11","1ES","8","11","11","As many therefore as are so disposed, let them depart with you, as it has seemed good both to me and my seven friends the counselors, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_12","054_8_12","1ES","8","12","12","that they may look to the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, in accordance with what is in the Lord’s law, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_13","054_8_13","1ES","8","13","13","and carry the gifts to the Lord of Israel to Jerusalem, which I and my friends have vowed, and that all the gold and silver that can be found in the country of Babylonia for the Lord in Jerusalem, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_14","054_8_14","1ES","8","14","14","with that also which is given of the people for the temple of the Lord their God that is at Jerusalem, be collected: even the gold and silver for bulls, rams, and lambs, and what goes with them, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_15","054_8_15","1ES","8","15","15","to the end that they may offer sacrifices to the Lord upon the altar of the Lord their God, which is in Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_16","054_8_16","1ES","8","16","16","Whatever you and your kindred decide to do with gold and silver, do that according to the will of your God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_17","054_8_17","1ES","8","17","17","The holy vessels of the Lord, which are given you for the use of the temple of your God, which is in Jerusalem, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_18","054_8_18","1ES","8","18","18","and whatever else you shall remember for the use of the temple of your God, you shall give it out of the king’s treasury. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_19","054_8_19","1ES","8","19","19","I, King Artaxerxes, have also commanded the keepers of the treasures in Syria and Phoenicia, that whatever Esdras the priest and reader of the law of the Most High God shall send for, they should give it to him with all diligence, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_20","054_8_20","1ES","8","20","20","to the sum of one hundred talents of silver, likewise also of wheat even to one hundred cors, and one hundred firkins of wine, and salt in abundance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_21","054_8_21","1ES","8","21","21","Let all things be performed after God’s law diligently to the most high God, that wrath come not upon the kingdom of the king and his sons. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_22","054_8_22","1ES","8","22","22","I command you also that no tax, nor any other imposition, be laid upon any of the priests, or Levites, or holy singers, or gatekeepers, or temple servants, or any that have employment in this temple, and that no man has authority to impose any tax on them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_23","054_8_23","1ES","8","23","23","You, Esdras, according to the wisdom of God, ordain judges and justices that they may judge in all Syria and Phoenicia all those who know the law of your God; and those who don’t know it, you shall teach. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_24","054_8_24","1ES","8","24","24","Whoever transgresses the law of your God and of the king shall be punished diligently, whether it be by death, or other punishment, by penalty of money, or by imprisonment.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_25","054_8_25","1ES","8","25","25","Then Esdras the scribe said, “Blessed be the only Lord, the God of my fathers, who has put these things into the heart of the king, to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem, ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_29","054_8_29","1ES","8","29","29","of the sons of Phinees, Gerson; of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael; of the sons of David, Attus the son of Sechenias; ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_31","054_8_31","1ES","8","31","31","of the sons of Phaath Moab, Eliaonias the son of Zaraias, and with him two hundred men; ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_33","054_8_33","1ES","8","33","33","of the sons of Elam, Jesias son of Gotholias, and with him seventy men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_34","054_8_34","1ES","8","34","34","of the sons of Saphatias, Zaraias son of Michael, and with him seventy men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_35","054_8_35","1ES","8","35","35","of the sons of Joab, Abadias son of Jehiel. Jezelus, and with him two hundred twelve men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_36","054_8_36","1ES","8","36","36","of the sons of Banias, Salimoth son of Josaphias, and with him one hundred sixty men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_37","054_8_37","1ES","8","37","37","of the sons of Babi, Zacharias son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight men; ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_39","054_8_39","1ES","8","39","39","of the sons of Adonikam, the last, and these are the names of them, Eliphalat, Jeuel, and Samaias, and with them seventy men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_40","054_8_40","1ES","8","40","40","of the sons of Bago, Uthi the son of Istalcurus, and with him seventy men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_41","054_8_41","1ES","8","41","41","I gathered them together to the river called Theras. There we pitched our tents three days, and I inspected them. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_43","054_8_43","1ES","8","43","43","then sent I to Eleazar, Iduel, Maasmas, ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_45","054_8_45","1ES","8","45","45","I asked them to go to Loddeus the captain, who was in the place of the treasury, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_46","054_8_46","1ES","8","46","46","and commanded them that they should speak to Loddeus, to his kindred, and to the treasurers in that place, to send us such men as might execute the priests’ office in our Lord’s house. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_47","054_8_47","1ES","8","47","47","By the mighty hand of our Lord, they brought to us men of understanding of the sons of Mooli the son of Levi, the son of Israel, Asebebias, and his sons, and his kindred, who were eighteen, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_48","054_8_48","1ES","8","48","48","and Asebias, Annuus, and Osaias his brother, of the sons of Chanuneus, and their sons were twenty men; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_49","054_8_49","1ES","8","49","49","and of the temple servants whom David and the principal men had appointed for the servants of the Levites, two hundred twenty temple servants. The list of all their names was reported. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_50","054_8_50","1ES","8","50","50","There I vowed a fast for the young men before our Lord, to seek from him a prosperous journey both for us and for our children and livestock that were with us; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_51","054_8_51","1ES","8","51","51","for I was ashamed to ask of the king infantry, cavalry, and an escort for protection against our adversaries. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_52","054_8_52","1ES","8","52","52","For we had said to the king that the power of our Lord would be with those who seek him, to support them in all ways. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_53","054_8_53","1ES","8","53","53","Again we prayed to our lord about these things, and found him to be merciful. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_54","054_8_54","1ES","8","54","54","Then I set apart twelve men of the chiefs of the priests, Eserebias, Assamias, and ten men of their kindred with them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_55","054_8_55","1ES","8","55","55","I weighed out to them the silver, the gold, and the holy vessels of the house of our Lord, which the king, his counselors, the nobles, and all Israel had given. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_56","054_8_56","1ES","8","56","56","When I had weighed it, I delivered to them six hundred fifty talents of silver, silver vessels weighing one hundred talents, one hundred talents of gold, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_57","054_8_57","1ES","8","57","57","twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_58","054_8_58","1ES","8","58","58","I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, the vessels are holy, and the gold and the silver are a vow to the Lord, the Lord of our fathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_59","054_8_59","1ES","8","59","59","Watch and keep them until you deliver them to the chiefs of the priests and Levites, and to the principal men of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chambers of our Lord’s house. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_61","054_8_61","1ES","8","61","61","We left the river Theras on the twelfth day of the first month. We came to Jerusalem by the mighty hand of our Lord which was upon us. The Lord delivered us from from every enemy on the way, and so we came to Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_62","054_8_62","1ES","8","62","62","When we had been there three days, the silver and gold was weighed and delivered in our Lord’s house on the fourth day to Marmoth the priest the son of Urias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_63","054_8_63","1ES","8","63","63","With him was Eleazar the son of Phinees, and with them were Josabdus the son of Jesus and Moeth the son of Sabannus, the Levites. All was delivered to them by number and weight. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_64","054_8_64","1ES","8","64","64","All the weight of them was recorded at the same hour. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_65","054_8_65","1ES","8","65","65","Moreover those who had come out of captivity offered sacrifices to the Lord, the God of Israel, even twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_66","054_8_66","1ES","8","66","66","seventy-two lambs, and twelve goats for a peace offering—all of them a sacrifice to the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_67","054_8_67","1ES","8","67","67","They delivered the king’s commandments to the king’s stewards and to the governors of Coelesyria and Phoenicia; and they honored the people and the temple of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_68","054_8_68","1ES","8","68","68","Now when these things were done, the principal men came to me and said, ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_70","054_8_70","1ES","8","70","70","For both they and their sons have married with their daughters, and the holy seed is mixed with the foreign people of the land. From the beginning of this matter the rulers and the nobles have been partakers of this iniquity.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_71","054_8_71","1ES","8","71","71","And as soon as I had heard these things, I tore my clothes and my holy garment, and plucked the hair from off my head and beard, and sat down sad and full of heaviness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_72","054_8_72","1ES","8","72","72","So all those who were moved at the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, assembled to me while I mourned for the iniquity, but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_73","054_8_73","1ES","8","73","73","Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and my holy garment torn, and bowing my knees and stretching out my hands to the Lord, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_74","054_8_74","1ES","8","74","74","I said, “O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded before your face, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_75","054_8_75","1ES","8","75","75","for our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our errors have reached up to heaven ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_76","054_8_76","1ES","8","76","76","ever since the time of our fathers. We are in great sin, even to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_77","054_8_77","1ES","8","77","77","For our sins and our fathers’ we with our kindred, our kings, and our priests were given up to the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, to this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_78","054_8_78","1ES","8","78","78","Now in some measure mercy has been shown to us from you, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of your sanctuary, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_79","054_8_79","1ES","8","79","79","and to uncover a light in the house of the Lord our God, and to give us food in the time of our servitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_80","054_8_80","1ES","8","80","80","Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken by our Lord, but he gave us favor before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_81","054_8_81","1ES","8","81","81","glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Zion, to give us a sure dwelling in Judea and Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_82","054_8_82","1ES","8","82","82","“Now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? For we have transgressed your commandments which you gave by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_83","054_8_83","1ES","8","83","83","‘The land, which you enter into to possess as an inheritance, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the foreigners of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_84","054_8_84","1ES","8","84","84","Therefore now you shall not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you take their daughters for your sons. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_85","054_8_85","1ES","8","85","85","You shall never seek to have peace with them, that you may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that you may leave it for an inheritance to your children for evermore.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_86","054_8_86","1ES","8","86","86","All that has happened is done to us for our wicked works and great sins, for you, O Lord, made our sins light, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_87","054_8_87","1ES","8","87","87","and gave to us such a root; but we have turned back again to transgress your law in mingling ourselves with the uncleanness of the heathen of the land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_88","054_8_88","1ES","8","88","88","You weren’t angry with us to destroy us until you had left us neither root, seed, nor name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_89","054_8_89","1ES","8","89","89","O Lord of Israel, you are true, for we are left a root this day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_90","054_8_90","1ES","8","90","90","Behold, now we are before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you because of these things.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_91","054_8_91","1ES","8","91","91","As Esdras in his prayer made his confession, weeping, and lying flat on the ground before the temple, a very great throng of men, women, and children gathered to him from Jerusalem; for there was great weeping among the multitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_92","054_8_92","1ES","8","92","92","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 foreign women of the heathen of the land, but there is still hope for Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_93","054_8_93","1ES","8","93","93","Let’s make an oath to the Lord about this, that we will put away all our foreign wives with their children, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_94","054_8_94","1ES","8","94","94","as seems good to you, and to as many as obey the Lord’s Law. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_95","054_8_95","1ES","8","95","95","Arise, and take action, for this is your task, and we will be with you to do valiantly.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E18_96","054_8_96","1ES","8","96","96","So Esdras arose, and took an oath from the chief of the priests and Levites of all Israel to do these things; and they swore to it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_1","054_9_1","1ES","9","1","1","Then Esdras rose up from the court of the temple and went to the chamber of Jonas the son of Eliasib, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_2","054_9_2","1ES","9","2","2","and lodged there, and ate no bread and drank no water, mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_3","054_9_3","1ES","9","3","3","A proclamation was made in all Judea and Jerusalem to all those who returned from captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_4","054_9_4","1ES","9","4","4","and that whoever didn’t meet there within two or three days, in accordance with the ruling of the elders, that their livestock would be seized for the use of the temple, and they would be expelled from the multitude of those who returned from captivity. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_5","054_9_5","1ES","9","5","5","Within three days, all those of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem. This was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_6","054_9_6","1ES","9","6","6","All the multitude sat together shivering in the broad place before the temple because of the present foul weather. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_7","054_9_7","1ES","9","7","7","So Esdras arose up and said to them, “You have transgressed the law and married foreign wives, increasing the sins of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_8","054_9_8","1ES","9","8","8","Now make confession and give glory to the Lord, the God of our fathers, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_9","054_9_9","1ES","9","9","9","and do his will, and separate yourselves from the heathen of the land, and from the foreign women.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_10","054_9_10","1ES","9","10","10","Then the whole multitude cried out, and said with a loud voice, “Just as you have spoken, so we will do. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_11","054_9_11","1ES","9","11","11","But because the multitude is great, and it is foul weather, so that we can’t stand outside, and this is not a work of one day or two, seeing our sin in these things has spread far, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_12","054_9_12","1ES","9","12","12","therefore let the rulers of the multitude stay, and let all those of our settlements that have foreign wives come at the time appointed, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_13","054_9_13","1ES","9","13","13","and with them the rulers and judges of every place, until we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_14","054_9_14","1ES","9","14","14","So Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezekias the son of Thocanus took the matter on themselves. Mosollamus and Levis and Sabbateus were judges with them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_15","054_9_15","1ES","9","15","15","Those who returned from captivity did according to all these things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_16","054_9_16","1ES","9","16","16","Esdras the priest chose for himself principal men of their families, all by name. On the new moon of the tenth month they met together to examine the matter. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_19","054_9_19","1ES","9","19","19","of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedek, and his kindred, Mathelas, Eleazar, and Joribus, and Joadanus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_20","054_9_20","1ES","9","20","20","They gave their hands to put away their wives, and to offer rams to make reconciliation for their error. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_21","054_9_21","1ES","9","21","21","Of the sons of Emmer: Ananias, Zabdeus, Manes, Sameus, Hiereel, and Azarias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_22","054_9_22","1ES","9","22","22","Of the sons of Phaisur: Elionas, Massias, Ishmael, Nathanael, Ocidelus, and Saloas. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_23","054_9_23","1ES","9","23","23","Of the Levites: Jozabdus, Semeis, Colius who was called Calitas, Patheus, Judas, and Jonas. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_24","054_9_24","1ES","9","24","24","Of the holy singers: Eliasibus and Bacchurus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_25","054_9_25","1ES","9","25","25","Of the gatekeepers: Sallumus and Tolbanes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_26","054_9_26","1ES","9","26","26","Of Israel, of the sons of Phoros: Hiermas, Ieddias, Melchias, Maelus, Eleazar, Asibas, and Banneas. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_27","054_9_27","1ES","9","27","27","Of the sons of Ela: Matthanias, Zacharias, Jezrielus, Oabdius, Hieremoth, and Aedias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_28","054_9_28","1ES","9","28","28","Of the sons of Zamoth: Eliadas, Eliasimus, Othonias, Jarimoth, Sabathus, and Zardeus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_29","054_9_29","1ES","9","29","29","Of the sons of Bebai: Joannes, Ananias, Jozabdus, and Ematheis. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_30","054_9_30","1ES","9","30","30","Of the sons of Mani: Olamus, Mamuchus, Jedeus, Jasubas, Jasaelus, and Hieremoth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_31","054_9_31","1ES","9","31","31","Of the sons of Addi: Naathus, Moossias, Laccunus, Naidus, Matthanias, Sesthel, Balnuus, and Manasseas. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_32","054_9_32","1ES","9","32","32","Of the sons of Annas: Elionas, Aseas, Melchias, Sabbeus, and Simon Chosameus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_33","054_9_33","1ES","9","33","33","Of the sons of Asom: Maltanneus, Mattathias, Sabanneus, Eliphalat, Manasses, and Semei. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_34","054_9_34","1ES","9","34","34","Of the sons of Baani: Jeremias, Momdis, Ismaerus, Juel, Mamdai, Pedias, Anos, Carabasion, Enasibus, Mamnitamenus, Eliasis, Bannus, Eliali, Someis, Selemias, and Nathanias. Of the sons of Ezora: Sesis, Ezril, Azaelus, Samatus, Zambri, and Josephus. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_35","054_9_35","1ES","9","35","35","Of the sons of Nooma: Mazitias, Zabadeas, Edos, Juel, and Banaias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_36","054_9_36","1ES","9","36","36","All these had taken foreign wives, and they put them away with their children. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_37","054_9_37","1ES","9","37","37","The priests and Levites, and those who were of Israel, lived in Jerusalem and in the country, on the new moon of the seventh month, and the children of Israel in their settlements. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_41","054_9_41","1ES","9","41","41","He read in the broad place before the porch of the temple from morning until midday, before both men and women; and all the multitude gave attention to the law. ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_43","054_9_43","1ES","9","43","43","Beside him stood Mattathias, Sammus, Ananias, Azarias, Urias, Ezekias, and Baalsamus on the right hand, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_44","054_9_44","1ES","9","44","44","and on his left hand, Phaldeus, Misael, Melchias, Lothasubus, Nabarias, and Zacharias. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_45","054_9_45","1ES","9","45","45","Then Esdras took the book of the law before the multitude, and sat honorably in the first place before all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_46","054_9_46","1ES","9","46","46","When he opened the law, they all stood straight up. So Esdras blessed the Lord God Most High, the God of armies, the Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_47","054_9_47","1ES","9","47","47","All the people answered, “Amen.” Lifting up their hands, they fell to the ground and worshiped the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_48","054_9_48","1ES","9","48","48","Also Jesus, Annus, Sarabias, Iadinus, Jacubus, Sabateus, Auteas, Maiannas, Calitas, Azarias, Jozabdus, Ananias, and Phalias, the Levites, taught the law of the Lord, and read to the multitude the law of the Lord, explaining what was read. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_49","054_9_49","1ES","9","49","49","Then Attharates said to Esdras the chief priest and reader, and to the Levites who taught the multitude, even to all, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_50","054_9_50","1ES","9","50","50","“This day is holy to the Lord—now they all wept when they heard the law— ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_51","054_9_51","1ES","9","51","51","go then, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those who have nothing; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_52","054_9_52","1ES","9","52","52","for the day is holy to the Lord. Don’t be sorrowful, for the Lord will bring you to honor.” ");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E19_55","054_9_55","1ES","9","55","55","because they understood the words they were instructed with, and for which they had been assembled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_1","055_1_1","MAN","1","1","1","O LORD Almighty in heaven, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of their righteous offspring, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_2","055_1_2","MAN","1","2","2","you who have made heaven and earth, with all their order, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_3","055_1_3","MAN","1","3","3","who have bound the sea by the word of your commandment, who have shut up the deep, and sealed it by your terrible and glorious name, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_4","055_1_4","MAN","1","4","4","whom all things fear, yes, tremble before your power, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_5","055_1_5","MAN","1","5","5","for the majesty of your glory can’t be borne, and the anger of your threatening toward sinners is unbearable. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_6","055_1_6","MAN","1","6","6","Your merciful promise is unmeasurable and unsearchable, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_7","055_1_7","MAN","1","7","7","for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, patient and abundant in mercy, and relent at human suffering. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_8","055_1_8","MAN","1","8","8","You, O Lord, according to your great goodness have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you. Of your infinite mercies, you have appointed repentance to sinners, that they may be saved. You therefore, O Lord, who are the God of the just, have not appointed repentance to the just, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which have not sinned against you, but you have appointed repentance to me who am a sinner. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_9","055_1_9","MAN","1","9","9","For I have sinned more than the number of the sands of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O Lord, my transgressions are multiplied, and I am not worthy to behold and see the height of heaven for the multitude of my iniquities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_10","055_1_10","MAN","1","10","10","I am bowed down with many iron bands, so that I can’t lift up my head by reason of my sins, neither have I any relief; for I have provoked your wrath, and done that which is evil before you: I didn’t do your will, neither did I keep your commandments. I have set up abominations, and have multiplied detestable things. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_11","055_1_11","MAN","1","11","11","Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, asking you for grace. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_12","055_1_12","MAN","1","12","12","I have sinned, O Lord, I have sinned, and I acknowledge my iniquities; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_13","055_1_13","MAN","1","13","13","but, I humbly ask you, forgive me, O Lord, forgive me, and please don’t destroy me with my iniquities. Don’t be angry with me forever, by reserving evil for me. Don’t condemn me into the lower parts of the earth. For you, O Lord, are the God of those who repent. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_14","055_1_14","MAN","1","14","14","In me you will show all your goodness, for you will save me, who am unworthy, according to your great mercy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PN1_15","055_1_15","MAN","1","15","15","Then I will praise you forever all the days of my life; for all the army of heaven sings your praise, and yours is the glory forever and ever. Amen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_1","056_1_1","PS2","1","1","1","This Psalm is a genuine one of David, though extra, composed when he fought in single combat with Goliath. I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father’s house. I tended my father’s sheep. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_2","056_1_2","PS2","1","2","2","My hands formed a musical instrument, and my fingers tuned a lyre. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_3","056_1_3","PS2","1","3","3","Who shall tell my Lord? The Lord himself, he himself hears. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_4","056_1_4","PS2","1","4","4","He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep, and he anointed me with his anointing oil. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_5","056_1_5","PS2","1","5","5","My brothers were handsome and tall; but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_6","056_1_6","PS2","1","6","6","I went out to meet the Philistine, and he cursed me by his idols. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("PX1_7","056_1_7","PS2","1","7","7","But I drew his own sword and beheaded him, and removed reproach from the children of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_1","057_1_1","3MA","1","1","1","Now Philopater, on learning from those who came back that Antiochus had made himself master of the places which belonged to himself, sent orders to all his infantry and cavalry, took with him his sister Arsinoe, and marched out as far as the parts of Raphia, where Antiochus and his forces encamped. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_2","057_1_2","3MA","1","2","2","And one Theodotus, intending to carry out his design, took with him the bravest of the armed men who had been before committed to his trust by Ptolemy, and got through at night to the tent of Ptolemy, to kill him on his own responsibility, and so to end the war. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_3","057_1_3","3MA","1","3","3","But Dositheus, called the son of Drimulus, by birth a Jew, afterward a renegade from the laws and observances of his country, conveyed Ptolemy away, and made an obscure person lie down in his stead in the tent. It turned out that this man received the fate which was meant for the other. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_4","057_1_4","3MA","1","4","4","A fierce battle then took place. The men of Antiochus were prevailing. Arsinoe continually went up and down the ranks, and with dishevelled hair, with tears and entreaties, begged the soldiers to fight bravely for themselves, their children, and wives, and promised that if they proved conquerors, she would give them each two minas of gold. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_5","057_1_5","3MA","1","5","5","It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_6","057_1_6","3MA","1","6","6","Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_7","057_1_7","3MA","1","7","7","By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_8","057_1_8","3MA","1","8","8","The Jews sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, welcoming gifts, and congratulations of the past, given by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_9","057_1_9","3MA","1","9","9","Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank-offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_10","057_1_10","3MA","1","10","10","he was so impressed with the magnificence of the place, and so wondered at the orderly arrangements of the temple, that he considered entering the sanctuary itself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_11","057_1_11","3MA","1","11","11","When they told him that this was not permissible, none of the nation, not even the priests in general, but only the supreme high priest of all, and he only once in a year, was allowed to go in, he would by no means give way. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_12","057_1_12","3MA","1","12","12","Then they read the law to him, but he persisted in intruding, exclaiming that he ought to be allowed. He said, “Even if they were deprived of this honor, I shouldn’t be.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_13","057_1_13","3MA","1","13","13","He asked why, when he entered all the other temples, did none of the priests who were present forbid him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_14","057_1_14","3MA","1","14","14","He was thoroughly answered by someone, that he did wrong to boast of this. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_15","057_1_15","3MA","1","15","15","“Well, since I have done this,” said he, “be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_16","057_1_16","3MA","1","16","16","When the priests fell down in their sacred vestments imploring the Greatest God to come and help in time of need, and to avert the violence of the fierce aggressor, and when they filled the temple with lamentations and tears, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_17","057_1_17","3MA","1","17","17","then those who had been left behind in the city were scared, and rushed out, uncertain of the event. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_18","057_1_18","3MA","1","18","18","Virgins, who had been shut up within their chambers, came out with their mothers, scattering dust and ashes on their heads, and filling the streets with outcries. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_19","057_1_19","3MA","1","19","19","Women who had recently been arrayed for marriage left their bridal chambers, left the reserve that befitted them, and ran around the city in a disorderly manner. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_20","057_1_20","3MA","1","20","20","New-born babes were deserted by the mothers or nurses who waited upon them—some here, some there, in houses, or in fields; these now, with an ardor which could not be checked, swarmed into the Most High temple. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_21","057_1_21","3MA","1","21","21","Various prayers were offered up by those who assembled in this place because of the unholy attempt of the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_22","057_1_22","3MA","1","22","22","Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage and would not submit to his obstinacy and his intention of carrying out his purpose. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_23","057_1_23","3MA","1","23","23","Calling out to arms, and to die bravely in defense of the law of their fathers, they created a great uproar in the place, and were with difficulty brought back by the aged and the elders to the station of prayer which they had occupied before. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_24","057_1_24","3MA","1","24","24","During this time, the multitude kept on praying. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_25","057_1_25","3MA","1","25","25","The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_26","057_1_26","3MA","1","26","26","He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onward with the view of carrying out this design. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_27","057_1_27","3MA","1","27","27","Yet even his own officers, when they saw this, joined the Jews in an appeal to Him who has all power to aid in the present crisis, and not wink at such haughty lawlessness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_28","057_1_28","3MA","1","28","28","Such was the frequency and the vehemence of the cry of the assembled crowd, that an indescribable noise ensued. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M31_29","057_1_29","3MA","1","29","29","Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound out, all things preferring death rather than to see the place defiled. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_1","057_2_1","3MA","2","1","1","Now it was that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following prayer: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_2","057_2_2","3MA","2","2","2","“O Lord, Lord, King of the heavens, and Ruler of the whole creation, Holy among the holy, sole Governor, Almighty, give ear to us who are oppressed by a wicked and profane one, who celebrates in his confidence and strength. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_3","057_2_3","3MA","2","3","3","It is you, the Creator of all, the Lord of the universe, who are a righteous Governor, and judge all who act with pride and insolence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_4","057_2_4","3MA","2","4","4","It was you who destroyed the former workers of unrighteousness, among whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_5","057_2_5","3MA","2","5","5","It was you who made the Sodomites, those workers of exceedingly iniquity, men notorious for their vices, an example to later generations, when you covered them with fire and brimstone. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_6","057_2_6","3MA","2","6","6","You made known your power when you caused the bold Pharaoh, the enslaver of your people, to pass through the ordeal of many and diverse inflictions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_7","057_2_7","3MA","2","7","7","You rolled the depths of the sea over him when he pursued with chariots and with a multitude of followers, and gave a safe passage to those who put their trust in you, the Lord of the whole creation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_8","057_2_8","3MA","2","8","8","These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you, the Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_9","057_2_9","3MA","2","9","9","You, O King, when you created the immeasurable and measureless earth, chose this city. You made this place sacred to your name, even though you need nothing. You glorified it with your illustrious presence, after constructing it to the glory of your great and honorable name. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_10","057_2_10","3MA","2","10","10","You promised, out of love for the people of Israel, that if we fall away from you, become afflicted, and then come to this house and pray, you would hear our prayer. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_11","057_2_11","3MA","2","11","11","Truly you are faithful and true. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_12","057_2_12","3MA","2","12","12","When you often aided our fathers when hard pressed and humiliated, and delivered them out of great dangers, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_13","057_2_13","3MA","2","13","13","see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are crushed and made subject to our enemies, and have become weak and powerless. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_14","057_2_14","3MA","2","14","14","In our low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonor this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_15","057_2_15","3MA","2","15","15","Your dwelling place, the heaven of heavens, is indeed unapproachable to men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_16","057_2_16","3MA","2","16","16","But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory among your people Israel, you sanctified this place. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_17","057_2_17","3MA","2","17","17","Don’t punish us by means of the uncleanness of their men, and don’t chastise us by means of their profanity, lest the lawless ones should boast in their rage, and exult in exuberant pride of speech, and say, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_18","057_2_18","3MA","2","18","18","‘We have trampled upon the holy house, as idolatrous houses are trampled upon.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_19","057_2_19","3MA","2","19","19","Blot out our iniquities, do away with our errors, and show your compassion in this hour. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_20","057_2_20","3MA","2","20","20","Let your mercies quickly go before us. Grant us peace, that the downcast and broken hearted may praise you with their mouth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_21","057_2_21","3MA","2","21","21","At that time God, who sees all things, who is beyond all Holy among the holy, heard that prayer, so suitable, and scourged the man who was greatly uplifted with scorn and insolence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_22","057_2_22","3MA","2","22","22","Shaking him back and forth as a reed is shaken with the wind, he threw him down on the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed, and by a righteous judgment deprived of the ability to speak. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_23","057_2_23","3MA","2","23","23","His friends and bodyguards, seeing the swift recompense which had suddenly overtaken him, struck with exceeding terror, and fearing that he would die, speedily removed him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_24","057_2_24","3MA","2","24","24","When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe punishment caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_25","057_2_25","3MA","2","25","25","He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his previously mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_26","057_2_26","3MA","2","26","26","and not satisfied with countless acts of impiety, his audacity so increased that he raised evil reports there, and many of his friends, watching his purpose attentively, joined in furthering his will. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_27","057_2_27","3MA","2","27","27","His purpose was to inflict a public stigma upon our race. Therefore he erected a stone pillar in the courtyard, and caused the following inscription to be engraved upon it: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_28","057_2_28","3MA","2","28","28","“Entrance to this temple is to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice. All the Jews were to be registered among the slaves. Those who resisted are to be forcibly seized and put to death. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_29","057_2_29","3MA","2","29","29","Those who are thus registered are to be marked on their persons by the ivy-leaf symbol of Dionysus, and to be reduced to these limited rights.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_30","057_2_30","3MA","2","30","30","To do away with the appearance of hating them all, he had it written underneath, that if any of them should elect to enter the community of those initiated in the rites, these should have equal rights with the Alexandrians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_31","057_2_31","3MA","2","31","31","Some of those who were over the city, therefore, abhorring any approach to the city of piety, unhesitatingly gave in to the king, and expected to derive some great honor from a future connection with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_32","057_2_32","3MA","2","32","32","A nobler spirit, however, prompted the majority to cling to their religious observances, and by paying money that they might live unmolested, these sought to escape the registration, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M32_33","057_2_33","3MA","2","33","33","cheerfully looking forward to future aid, they abhorred their own apostates, considering them to be national foes, and depriving them of common fellowship and mutual help. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_1","057_3_1","3MA","3","1","1","On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived in the country, he gave orders that they should be quickly collected into one place, and most cruelly deprived of their lives. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_2","057_3_2","3MA","3","2","2","While this was going on, a hostile rumor was uttered abroad by men who had banded together to injure the Jewish race. The pretext of their charge was that the Jews kept them away from the ordinances of the law. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_3","057_3_3","3MA","3","3","3","Now the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty toward the kings, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_4","057_3_4","3MA","3","4","4","yet, as they worshiped God and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence they appeared hateful to some people, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_5","057_3_5","3MA","3","5","5","although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_6","057_3_6","3MA","3","6","6","What all the rest of mankind said was, however, disregarded by the foreigners, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_7","057_3_7","3MA","3","7","7","who said much of the exclusiveness of the Jews with regard to their worship and meats. They alleged that they were unsociable men, hostile to the king’s interests, refusing to associate with him or his troops. By this way of speaking, they brought much hatred on them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_8","057_3_8","3MA","3","8","8","This unexpected uproar and sudden gathering of people was observed by the Greeks who lived in the city, concerning men who had never harmed them. Yet to aid them was not in their power, since all was oppression around, but they encouraged them in their troubles, and expected a favorable turn of affairs. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_9","057_3_9","3MA","3","9","9","He who knows all things will not, they said, disregard so great a people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_10","057_3_10","3MA","3","10","10","Some of the neighbors, friends, and business associates of the Jews even called them secretly to an interview, pledged them their assistance, and promised to do their very utmost for them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_11","057_3_11","3MA","3","11","11","Now the king, elated with his prosperous fortune, and not regarding the superior power of God, but thinking to persevere in his present purpose, wrote the following letter to the prejudice of the Jews: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_12","057_3_12","3MA","3","12","12","“King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_13","057_3_13","3MA","3","13","13","I am doing well, and so, too, are my affairs. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_14","057_3_14","3MA","3","14","14","Since our Asiatic campaign, the particulars of which you know, and which by the aid of the gods, not lightly given, and by our own vigor, has been brought to a successful conclusion according to our expectation, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_15","057_3_15","3MA","3","15","15","we resolved, not with strength of spear, but with gentleness and much humanity, as it were to nurse the inhabitants of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, and to be their willing benefactors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_16","057_3_16","3MA","3","16","16","So, having bestowed considerable sums of money upon the temples of the several cities, we proceeded even as far as Jerusalem, and went up to honor the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_17","057_3_17","3MA","3","17","17","To outward appearance they received us willingly, but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honor it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_18","057_3_18","3MA","3","18","18","they were so carried away by their old arrogance as to forbid us the entrance, while we, out of our forbearance toward all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_19","057_3_19","3MA","3","19","19","Thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone among the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any reasonable thing. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_20","057_3_20","3MA","3","20","20","We then, having endeavored to make allowance for the madness of these people, and on our victorious return treating all people in Egypt courteously, acted in a manner which was befitting. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_21","057_3_21","3MA","3","21","21","Accordingly, bearing no ill will against their kinsmen, but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by giving them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_22","057_3_22","3MA","3","22","22","All this, however, they have taken in a very different spirit. With their innate malignity, they have spurned the fair offer, and constantly inclining to evil, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_23","057_3_23","3MA","3","23","23","have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few among them who are heartily disposed toward us, ever deeming that their infamous way of life will force us to do away with our reform. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_24","057_3_24","3MA","3","24","24","Having then received certain proofs that these Jews bear us every sort of ill will, we must look forward to the possibility of some sudden tumult among ourselves when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_25","057_3_25","3MA","3","25","25","Therefore, as soon as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell among you, with wives and children, to be sent to us, vilified and abused, in chains of iron, to undergo a cruel and shameful death, suitable to enemies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_26","057_3_26","3MA","3","26","26","For by the punishment of them in one body we perceive that we have found the only means of establishing our affairs for the future on a firm and satisfactory basis. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_27","057_3_27","3MA","3","27","27","Whoever protects a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_28","057_3_28","3MA","3","28","28","Whoever informs against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_29","057_3_29","3MA","3","29","29","Whatever place shelters a Jew shall be made unapproachable and shall be put under the ban of fire, and be forever rendered useless to every living being for all time to come.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M33_30","057_3_30","3MA","3","30","30","The king’s letter was written in the above form. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_1","057_4_1","3MA","4","1","1","Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting, as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred would now show itself openly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_2","057_4_2","3MA","4","2","2","The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow and wept much, while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_3","057_4_3","3MA","4","3","3","What home, or city, or any inhabited place, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_4","057_4_4","3MA","4","4","4","They were sent out unanimously by the generals in various cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at their miserable expulsion. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_5","057_4_5","3MA","4","5","5","A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_6","057_4_6","3MA","4","6","6","Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled; and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry instead of the marriage hymn. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_7","057_4_7","3MA","4","7","7","Bound and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_8","057_4_8","3MA","4","8","8","The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigor, instead of crowns, wore ropes round their necks. Instead of feasting and youthful celebration, they spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailing, and saw only the grave at hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_9","057_4_9","3MA","4","9","9","They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild animals. Of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers, while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_10","057_4_10","3MA","4","10","10","The planks of the deck above them blocked out the light and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_11","057_4_11","3MA","4","11","11","They were carried like this in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces. They weren’t deemed worthy of any civilized accommodation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_12","057_4_12","3MA","4","12","12","When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_13","057_4_13","3MA","4","13","13","was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same—and not one bit milder—treatment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_14","057_4_14","3MA","4","14","14","The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name, not for that hard servitude of labor which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might exterminate them by his cruelties. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_15","057_4_15","3MA","4","15","15","The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_16","057_4_16","3MA","4","16","16","The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_17","057_4_17","3MA","4","17","17","At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_18","057_4_18","3MA","4","18","18","inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places, so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_19","057_4_19","3MA","4","19","19","The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews, but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_20","057_4_20","3MA","4","20","20","They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M34_21","057_4_21","3MA","4","21","21","Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_1","057_5_1","3MA","5","1","1","Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_2","057_5_2","3MA","5","2","2","he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine with handfuls of incense infused, to drug the elephants early on the following day. These five hundred elephants were, when infuriated by the copious drinks of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_3","057_5_3","3MA","5","3","3","The king, after issuing these orders, went to his feasting, and gathered together all those of his friends and of the army who hated the Jews the most. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_4","057_5_4","3MA","5","4","4","The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_5","057_5_5","3MA","5","5","5","The servants appointed for the purpose went out about evening and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_6","057_5_6","3MA","5","6","6","The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection, for chains bound them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_7","057_5_7","3MA","5","7","7","They invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_8","057_5_8","3MA","5","8","8","to overthrow the evil purpose which had gone out against them, and to deliver them by extraordinary manifestation from that death which was in store for them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_9","057_5_9","3MA","5","9","9","Their earnest entreaty went up to heaven. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_10","057_5_10","3MA","5","10","10","Then Hermon, who had filled his merciless elephants with copious drinks of mixed wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to report on these preparations. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_11","057_5_11","3MA","5","11","11","He, however, who has sent his good creature sleep from all time by night or by day thus gratifying whom he wills, diffused a portion of it now upon the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_12","057_5_12","3MA","5","12","12","By this sweet and profound influence of the Lord, he was held fast, and thus his unjust purpose was quite frustrated, and his unflinching resolve greatly falsified. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_13","057_5_13","3MA","5","13","13","But the Jews, having escaped the hour which had been fixed, praised their holy God, and again prayed him who is easily reconciled to display the power of his powerful hand to the arrogant Gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_14","057_5_14","3MA","5","14","14","The middle of the tenth hour had nearly arrived, when the person who sent invitations, seeing the guests who were invited present, came and shook the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_15","057_5_15","3MA","5","15","15","He gained his attention with difficulty, and hinting that the mealtime was getting past, talked the matter over with him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_16","057_5_16","3MA","5","16","16","The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his drinking, commanded the guests to sit down before him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_17","057_5_17","3MA","5","17","17","This done, he asked them to enjoy themselves, and to indulge in mirth at this somewhat late hour of the banquet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_18","057_5_18","3MA","5","18","18","Conversation grew on, and the king sent for Hermon, and inquired of him, with fierce denunciations, why the Jews had been allowed to outlive that day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_19","057_5_19","3MA","5","19","19","Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_20","057_5_20","3MA","5","20","20","The king, then, with a barbarity exceeding that of Phalaris, said, “They might thank his sleep of that day. Lose no time, and get ready the elephants against tomorrow, as you did before, for the destruction of these accursed Jews.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_21","057_5_21","3MA","5","21","21","When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved. Then each man went to his own home. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_22","057_5_22","3MA","5","22","22","They didn’t employ the night in sleep, but in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_23","057_5_23","3MA","5","23","23","The morning cock had just crowed, and Hermon, having harnessed the brutes, was stimulating them in the great colonnade. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_24","057_5_24","3MA","5","24","24","The city crowds were collected together to see the hideous spectacle, and waited impatiently for the dawn. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_25","057_5_25","3MA","5","25","25","The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched out their hands and prayed the Greatest God, in mournful strains, again to help them speedily. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_26","057_5_26","3MA","5","26","26","The sun’s rays were not yet shining and the king was waiting for his friends when Hermon came to him, calling him out, and saying that his desires could now be realized. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_27","057_5_27","3MA","5","27","27","The king, receiving him, was astonished at his unusual invitation. Overwhelmed with a spirit of oblivion about everything, inquired about the object of this earnest preparation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_28","057_5_28","3MA","5","28","28","But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_29","057_5_29","3MA","5","29","29","Hermon and all his friends pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_30","057_5_30","3MA","5","30","30","The king was filled with fierce anger at these words, for, by the Providence of God regarding these things, his mind had become entirely confused. He looked hard at Hermon, and threatened him as follows: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_31","057_5_31","3MA","5","31","31","“Your parents, or your children, were they here, would have given a large meal to these wild animals, not these innocent Jews, who have loyally served me and my forefathers. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_32","057_5_32","3MA","5","32","32","Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_33","057_5_33","3MA","5","33","33","Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in his eyes, and his face fell. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_34","057_5_34","3MA","5","34","34","The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_35","057_5_35","3MA","5","35","35","The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_36","057_5_36","3MA","5","36","36","Now the king arranged another banquet in the same way, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_37","057_5_37","3MA","5","37","37","He summoned Hermon to his presence, and said, with threats, “How often, O wretch, must I repeat my orders to you about these same persons? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_38","057_5_38","3MA","5","38","38","Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_39","057_5_39","3MA","5","39","39","His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_40","057_5_40","3MA","5","40","40","“O king, how long do you test us, as of men bereft of reason? This is the third time that you have ordered their destruction. When the thing is to be done, you change your mind, and recall your instructions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_41","057_5_41","3MA","5","41","41","Because of this, the feeling of expectation causes tumult in the city. It swarms with factions, and is continually on the point of being plundered.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_42","057_5_42","3MA","5","42","42","The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined immediately to send them to hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_43","057_5_43","3MA","5","43","43","He would also invade Judea, level its towns with fire and the sword, destroy that temple which the heathen might not enter, and prevent sacrifices ever after being offered up there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_44","057_5_44","3MA","5","44","44","Joyfully his friends broke up, together with his kinsmen; and, trusting in his determination, arranged their forces in guard at the most convenient places of the city. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_45","057_5_45","3MA","5","45","45","The master of the elephants urged the animals into an almost maniacal state, drenched them with incense and wine, and decked them with frightful devices. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_46","057_5_46","3MA","5","46","46","About early morning, when the city was filled with an immense number of people at the hippodrome, he entered the palace and called the king to the business in hand. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_47","057_5_47","3MA","5","47","47","The king’s heart teemed with impious rage; and he rushed forth with the mass, along with the elephants. With unsoftened feelings and pitiless eyes, he longed to gaze at the hard and wretched doom of the previously mentioned Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_48","057_5_48","3MA","5","48","48","But the Jews, when the elephants went out at the gate, followed by the armed force. When they saw the dust raised by the throng, and heard the loud cries of the crowd, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_49","057_5_49","3MA","5","49","49","thought that they had come to the last moment of their lives, to the end of what they had tremblingly expected. They gave way, therefore, to lamentations and moans. They kissed each other. Those nearest of kin to each other hung around one another’s necks—fathers hugging their sons and mothers their daughters. Other women held their infants to their breasts, which drew what seemed their last milk. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_50","057_5_50","3MA","5","50","50","Nevertheless, when they reflected upon the help previously granted them from heaven, they prostrated themselves with one accord, removed even the sucking children from the breasts, and ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M35_51","057_5_51","3MA","5","51","51","sent up an exceedingly great cry asking the Lord of all power to reveal himself, and have mercy upon those who now lay at the gates of hades. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_1","057_6_1","3MA","6","1","1","Then Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed this: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_2","057_6_2","3MA","6","2","2","“O king, mighty in power, most high, Almighty God, who regulates the whole creation with your tender mercy, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_3","057_6_3","3MA","6","3","3","look at the seed of Abraham, at the children of the sanctified Jacob, your sanctified inheritance, O Father, now being wrongfully destroyed as foreigners in a foreign land. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_4","057_6_4","3MA","6","4","4","You destroyed Pharaoh with his army of chariots when that lord of this same Egypt was uplifted with lawless daring and loud-sounding tongue. Shedding the beams of your mercy upon the race of Israel, you overwhelmed him and his proud army. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_5","057_6_5","3MA","6","5","5","When Sennacherim, the grievous king of the Assyrians, exulting in his countless army, had subdued the whole land with his spear and was lifting himself against your holy city with boastings grievous to be endured, you, O Lord, demolished him and displayed your might to many nations. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_6","057_6_6","3MA","6","6","6","When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, you sent a moist coolness through the fiery furnace, and brought the fire on all their adversaries. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_7","057_6_7","3MA","6","7","7","It was you who, when Daniel was hurled, through slander and envy, as a prey to lions down below, brought him back again unharmed to light. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_8","057_6_8","3MA","6","8","8","When Jonah was pining away in the belly of the sea-born monster, you looked at him, O Father, and recovered him to the sight of his own. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_9","057_6_9","3MA","6","9","9","Now, you who hate insolence, you who abound in mercy, you who are the protector of all things, appear quickly to those of the race of Israel, who are insulted by abhorred, lawless gentiles. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_10","057_6_10","3MA","6","10","10","If our life during our exile has been stained with iniquity, deliver us from the hand of the enemy, and destroy us, O Lord, by the death which you prefer. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_11","057_6_11","3MA","6","11","11","Don’t let the vain-minded congratulate vain idols at the destruction of your beloved, saying, ‘Their god didn’t deliver them.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_12","057_6_12","3MA","6","12","12","You who are All-powerful and Almighty, O Eternal One, behold! Have mercy on us who are being withdrawn from life, like traitors, by the unreasoning insolence of lawless men. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_13","057_6_13","3MA","6","13","13","Let the heathen cower before your invincible might today, O glorious One, who have all power to save the race of Jacob. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_14","057_6_14","3MA","6","14","14","The whole band of infants and their parents ask you with tears. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_15","057_6_15","3MA","6","15","15","Let it be shown to all the nations that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face away from us, but as you said that you would not forget them even in the land of their enemies, so fulfill this saying, O Lord.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_16","057_6_16","3MA","6","16","16","Now, at the time that Eleazar had ended his prayer, the king came along to the hippodrome with the wild animals, and with his tumultuous power. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_17","057_6_17","3MA","6","17","17","When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven so that the adjacent valleys resounded and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_18","057_6_18","3MA","6","18","18","Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down and were visible to all but the Jews. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_19","057_6_19","3MA","6","19","19","They stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ army with confusion and cowardice, and bound them with immoveable shackles. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_20","057_6_20","3MA","6","20","20","A cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_21","057_6_21","3MA","6","21","21","They turned back the animals on the armed forces who followed them; and the animals trampled them and destroyed them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_22","057_6_22","3MA","6","22","22","The king’s wrath was converted into compassion; and he wept at the things he had devised. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_23","057_6_23","3MA","6","23","23","For when he heard the cry, and saw them all on the verge of destruction, with tears he angrily threatened his friends, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_24","057_6_24","3MA","6","24","24","“You have governed badly, and have exceeded tyrants in cruelty. You have labored to deprive me, your benefactor, at once of my dominion and my life, by secretly devising measures injurious to the kingdom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_25","057_6_25","3MA","6","25","25","Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_26","057_6_26","3MA","6","26","26","Who has consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will toward us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_27","057_6_27","3MA","6","27","27","Loose, loose the unjust bonds! Send them to their homes in peace, begging pardon for what has been done. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_28","057_6_28","3MA","6","28","28","Release the sons of the almighty living God of heaven, who from our ancestors’ times until now has granted a glorious and uninterrupted prosperity to our affairs.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_29","057_6_29","3MA","6","29","29","He said these things, and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Savior. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_30","057_6_30","3MA","6","30","30","The king then departed to the city, and called his financier to himself, and asked him provide a seven days’ quantity of wine and other materials for feasting for the Jews. He decided that they should keep a cheerful festival of deliverance in the very place in which they expected to meet with their destruction. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_31","057_6_31","3MA","6","31","31","Then they who were before despised and near to hades, yes, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they apportioned the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_32","057_6_32","3MA","6","32","32","Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, singing in praise to God their wonder-working Savior. All groans and all wailing were laid aside. They formed dances as a sign of peaceful joy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_33","057_6_33","3MA","6","33","33","So the king also collected a number of guests for the occasion, and returned unceasing thanks with much magnificence for the unexpected deliverance afforded him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_34","057_6_34","3MA","6","34","34","Those who had marked them out as for death and for carrion, and had registered them with joy, howled aloud, and were clothed with shame, and had the fire of their rage ingloriously put out. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_35","057_6_35","3MA","6","35","35","But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_36","057_6_36","3MA","6","36","36","They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus established these days as days of mirth, not for the purpose of drinking or luxury, but because God had saved them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_37","057_6_37","3MA","6","37","37","They requested the king to send them back to their homes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_38","057_6_38","3MA","6","38","38","They were being enrolled from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epiphi, a period of forty days. The measures taken for their destruction lasted from the fifth of Epiphi till the seventh, that is, three days. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_39","057_6_39","3MA","6","39","39","The Ruler over all during this time manifested his mercy gloriously, and delivered them all together unharmed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_40","057_6_40","3MA","6","40","40","They feasted upon the king’s provision up to the fourteenth day, then asked to be sent away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M36_41","057_6_41","3MA","6","41","41","The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_1","057_7_1","3MA","7","1","1","“King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_2","057_7_2","3MA","7","2","2","We, too, and our children are well. God has directed our affairs as we wish. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_3","057_7_3","3MA","7","3","3","Certain of our friends out of malice vehemently urged us to punish the Jews of our realm in a body, with the infliction of a monstrous punishment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_4","057_7_4","3MA","7","4","4","They pretended that our affairs would never be in a good state till this took place. Such, they said, was the hatred borne by the Jews to all other people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_5","057_7_5","3MA","7","5","5","They brought them fettered in grievous chains as slaves, no, as traitors. Without enquiry or examination they endeavored to annihilate them. They buckled themselves with a savage cruelty, worse than Scythian custom. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_6","057_7_6","3MA","7","6","6","For this cause we severely threatened them; yet, with the clemency which we usually extend to all men, we at length permitted them to live. Finding that the God of heaven cast a shield of protection over the Jews so as to preserve them, and that he fought for them as a father always fights for his sons, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_7","057_7_7","3MA","7","7","7","and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity toward us and toward our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_8","057_7_8","3MA","7","8","8","We have dismissed them to their several homes, telling all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_9","057_7_9","3MA","7","9","9","For know this, that should we conceive any evil design, or in any way aggrieve them, we shall ever have as our adversary, not man, but the highest God, the ruler of all might. From Him there will be no escape, as the avenger of such deeds. Farewell.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_10","057_7_10","3MA","7","10","10","When they had received this letter, they didn’t hurry to depart immediately. They petitioned the king to be allowed to inflict fitting punishment upon those of their race who had willingly transgressed the holy god, and the law of God. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_11","057_7_11","3MA","7","11","11","They alleged that men who had for their bellies’ sake transgressed the ordinances of God, would never be faithful to the interests of the king. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_12","057_7_12","3MA","7","12","12","The king admitted the truth of this reasoning, and commended them. Full power was given them, without warrant or special commission, to destroy those who had transgressed the law of God boldly in every part of the king’s dominions. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_13","057_7_13","3MA","7","13","13","Their priests, then, as it was appropriate, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the “Hallelujah!” Then they joyfully departed. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_14","057_7_14","3MA","7","14","14","Then they punished and shamefully destroyed every polluted Jew that fell in their way, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_15","057_7_15","3MA","7","15","15","slaying this way, in that day, more than three hundred men, and esteeming this destruction of the wicked a season of joy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_16","057_7_16","3MA","7","16","16","They themselves having held closely to their God to death, and having enjoyed a full deliverance, departed from the city garlanded with sweet-flowered wreaths of every kind. Uttering exclamations of joy, with songs of praise, and melodious hymns, they thanked the God of their fathers, the eternal Savior of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_17","057_7_17","3MA","7","17","17","Having arrived at Ptolemais, called from the specialty of that district “Rose-bearing”, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_18","057_7_18","3MA","7","18","18","they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them all the means of securing a return home. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_19","057_7_19","3MA","7","19","19","They were accordingly brought back in peace, while they gave utterance to appropriate thanks; and they determined to observe these days during their sojourn as days of joyfulness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_20","057_7_20","3MA","7","20","20","These they registered as sacred upon a pillar, when they had dedicated the place of their festivity to be one of prayer. They departed unharmed, free, abundant in joy, preserved by the king’s command, by land, by sea, and by river, each to his own home. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_21","057_7_21","3MA","7","21","21","They had more weight than before among their enemies, and were honored and feared. No one in any way robbed them of their goods. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_22","057_7_22","3MA","7","22","22","Every man received back his own, according to inventory, those who had obtained their goods, giving them up with the greatest terror. For the greatest God made perfect wonders for their salvation. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("M37_23","057_7_23","3MA","7","23","23","Blessed be the Redeemer of Israel forever! Amen. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_1","058_1_1","2ES","1","1","1","The second book of the prophet Esdras, the son of Saraias, the son of Azaraias, the son of Helkias, the son of Salemas, the son of Sadoc, the son of Ahitob, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_2","058_1_2","2ES","1","2","2","the son of Achias, the son of Phinees, the son of Heli, the son of Amarias, the son of Aziei, the son of Marimoth, the son of Arna, the son of Ozias, the son of Borith, the son of Abissei, the son of Phinees, the son of Eleazar, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_3","058_1_3","2ES","1","3","3","the son of Aaron, of the tribe of Levi, who was captive in the land of the Medes, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_4","058_1_4","2ES","1","4","4","The Lord’s word came to me, saying, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_5","058_1_5","2ES","1","5","5","“Go your way and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me, that they may tell their children’s children, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_6","058_1_6","2ES","1","6","6","because the sins of their fathers have increased in them, for they have forgotten me, and have offered sacrifices to foreign gods. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_7","058_1_7","2ES","1","7","7","Didn’t I bring them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage? But they have provoked me to wrath and have despised my counsels. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_8","058_1_8","2ES","1","8","8","So pull out the hair of your head and cast all evils upon them, for they have not been obedient to my law, but they are a rebellious people. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_9","058_1_9","2ES","1","9","9","How long shall I endure them, to whom I have done so much good? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_10","058_1_10","2ES","1","10","10","I have overthrown many kings for their sakes. I have struck down Pharoah with his servants and all his army. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_11","058_1_11","2ES","1","11","11","I have destroyed all the nations before them. In the east, I have scattered the people of two provinces, even of Tyre and Sidon, and have slain all their adversaries. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_12","058_1_12","2ES","1","12","12","Speak therefore to them, saying: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_13","058_1_13","2ES","1","13","13","“The Lord says, truly I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made highways for you. I gave you Moses for a leader and Aaron for a priest. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_14","058_1_14","2ES","1","14","14","I gave you light in a pillar of fire. I have done great wonders among you, yet you have forgotten me, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_15","058_1_15","2ES","1","15","15","“The Lord Almighty says: The quails were for a token to you. I gave you a camp for your protection, but you complained there. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_16","058_1_16","2ES","1","16","16","You didn’t celebrate in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but even to this day you still complain. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_17","058_1_17","2ES","1","17","17","Where are the benefits that I have given you? When you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, didn’t you cry to me, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_18","058_1_18","2ES","1","18","18","saying, ‘Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? It would have been better for us to have served the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_19","058_1_19","2ES","1","19","19","I had pity on your mourning and gave you manna for food. You ate angels’ bread. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_20","058_1_20","2ES","1","20","20","When you were thirsty, didn’t I split the rock, and water flowed out in abundance? Because of the heat, I covered you with the leaves of the trees. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_21","058_1_21","2ES","1","21","21","I divided fruitful lands among you. I drove out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines before you. What more shall I do for you?” says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_22","058_1_22","2ES","1","22","22","The Lord Almighty says, “When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, being thirsty and blaspheming my name, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_23","058_1_23","2ES","1","23","23","I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but threw a tree in the water, and made the river sweet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_24","058_1_24","2ES","1","24","24","What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You, Judah, would not obey me. I will turn myself to other nations, and I will give my name to them, that they may keep my statutes. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_25","058_1_25","2ES","1","25","25","Since you have forsaken me, I also will forsake you. When you ask me to be merciful to you, I will have no mercy upon you. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_26","058_1_26","2ES","1","26","26","Whenever you call upon me, I will not hear you, for you have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit murder. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_27","058_1_27","2ES","1","27","27","It is not as though you have forsaken me, but your own selves,” says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_28","058_1_28","2ES","1","28","28","The Lord Almighty says, “Haven’t I asked you as a father his sons, as a mother her daughters, and a nurse her young babies, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_29","058_1_29","2ES","1","29","29","that you would be my people, and I would be your God, that you would be my children, and I would be your father? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_30","058_1_30","2ES","1","30","30","I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. But now, what should I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_31","058_1_31","2ES","1","31","31","When you offer burnt sacrifices to me, I will turn my face from you, for I have rejected your solemn feast days, your new moons, and your circumcisions of the flesh. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_32","058_1_32","2ES","1","32","32","I sent to you my servants the prophets, whom you have taken and slain, and torn their bodies in pieces, whose blood I will require from you,” says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_33","058_1_33","2ES","1","33","33","The Lord Almighty says, “Your house is desolate. I will cast you out as the wind blows stubble. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_34","058_1_34","2ES","1","34","34","Your children won’t be fruitful, for they have neglected my commandment to you, and done that which is evil before me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_35","058_1_35","2ES","1","35","35","I will give your houses to a people that will come, which not having heard of me yet believe me. Those to whom I have shown no signs will do what I have commanded. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_36","058_1_36","2ES","1","36","36","They have seen no prophets, yet they will remember their former condition. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_37","058_1_37","2ES","1","37","37","I call to witness the grattitude of the people who will come, whose little ones rejoice with gladness. Although they see me not with bodily eyes, yet in spirit they will believe what I say.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_38","058_1_38","2ES","1","38","38","And now, father, behold with glory, and see the people that come from the east: ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_39","058_1_39","2ES","1","39","39","to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E21_40","058_1_40","2ES","1","40","40","Nahum, and Abacuc, Sophonias, Aggaeus, Zachary, and Malachy, who is also called the Lord’s messenger. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_1","058_2_1","2ES","2","1","1","The Lord says, “I brought this people out of bondage. I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets, whom they would not listen to, but made my counsels void. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_2","058_2_2","2ES","2","2","2","The mother who bore them says to them, ‘Go your way, my children, for I am a widow and forsaken. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_3","058_2_3","2ES","2","3","3","I brought you up with gladness, and I have lost you with sorrow and heaviness, for you have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_4","058_2_4","2ES","2","4","4","But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go your way, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_5","058_2_5","2ES","2","5","5","As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness in addition to the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_6","058_2_6","2ES","2","6","6","that you may bring them to confusion, and their mother to ruin, that they may have no offspring. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_7","058_2_7","2ES","2","7","7","Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen. Let their names be blotted out of the earth, for they have despised my covenant. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_8","058_2_8","2ES","2","8","8","Woe to you, Assur, you who hide the unrighteous with you! You wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_9","058_2_9","2ES","2","9","9","whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That is what I will also do to those who have not listened to me,” says the Lord Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_10","058_2_10","2ES","2","10","10","The Lord says to Esdras, “Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_11","058_2_11","2ES","2","11","11","I will also take their glory back to myself, and give these the everlasting tabernacles which I had prepared for them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_12","058_2_12","2ES","2","12","12","They will have the tree of life for fragrant perfume. They will neither labor nor be weary. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_13","058_2_13","2ES","2","13","13","Ask, and you will receive. Pray that your days may be few, that they may be shortened. The kingdom is already prepared for you. Watch! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_14","058_2_14","2ES","2","14","14","Call heaven and earth to witness. Call them to witness, for I have left out evil, and created the good, for I live, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_15","058_2_15","2ES","2","15","15","“Mother, embrace your children. I will bring them out with gladness like a dove does. Establish their feet, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_16","058_2_16","2ES","2","16","16","I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs, for I recognize my name in them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_17","058_2_17","2ES","2","17","17","Don’t be afraid, you mother of children, for I have chosen you, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_18","058_2_18","2ES","2","18","18","For your help, I will send my servants Esaias and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for you twelve trees laden with various fruits, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_19","058_2_19","2ES","2","19","19","and as many springs flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, on which roses and lilies grow, with which I will fill your children with joy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_20","058_2_20","2ES","2","20","20","Do right to the widow. Secure justice for the fatherless. Give to the poor. Defend the orphan. Clothe the naked. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_21","058_2_21","2ES","2","21","21","Heal the broken and the weak. Don’t laugh a lame man to scorn. Defend the maimed. Let the blind man have a vision of my glory. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_22","058_2_22","2ES","2","22","22","Protect the old and young within your walls. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_23","058_2_23","2ES","2","23","23","Wherever you find the dead, set a sign upon them and commit them to the grave, and I will give you the first place in my resurrection. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_24","058_2_24","2ES","2","24","24","Stay still, my people, and take your rest, for your rest will come. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_25","058_2_25","2ES","2","25","25","Nourish your children, good nurse, and establish their feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_26","058_2_26","2ES","2","26","26","As for the servants whom I have given you, not one of them will perish, for I will require them from among your number. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_27","058_2_27","2ES","2","27","27","Don’t be anxious, for when the day of suffering and anguish comes, others will weep and be sorrowful, but you will rejoice and have abundance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_28","058_2_28","2ES","2","28","28","The nations will envy you, but they will be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_29","058_2_29","2ES","2","29","29","My hands will cover you, so that your children don’t see Gehenna. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_30","058_2_30","2ES","2","30","30","Be joyful, mother, with your children, for I will deliver you, says the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_31","058_2_31","2ES","2","31","31","Remember your children who sleep, for I will bring them out of the secret places of the earth and show mercy to them, for I am merciful, says the Lord Almighty. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_32","058_2_32","2ES","2","32","32","Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them, for my wells run over, and my grace won’t fail.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_33","058_2_33","2ES","2","33","33","I, Esdras, received a command from the Lord on Mount Horeb to go to Israel, but when I came to them, they rejected me and rejected the Lord’s commandment. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_34","058_2_34","2ES","2","34","34","Therefore I say to you, O nations that hear and understand, “Look for your shepherd. He will give you everlasting rest, for he is near at hand who will come at the end of the age. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_35","058_2_35","2ES","2","35","35","Be ready for the rewards of the kingdom, for the everlasting light will shine on you forevermore. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_36","058_2_36","2ES","2","36","36","Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joy of your glory. I call to witness my savior openly. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_37","058_2_37","2ES","2","37","37","Receive that which is given to you by the Lord, and be joyful, giving thanks to him who has called you to heavenly kingdoms. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_38","058_2_38","2ES","2","38","38","Arise and stand up, and see the number of those who have been sealed at the Lord’s feast. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_39","058_2_39","2ES","2","39","39","Those who withdrew themselves from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments from the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_40","058_2_40","2ES","2","40","40","Take again your full number, O Zion, and make up the reckoning of those of yours who are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_41","058_2_41","2ES","2","41","41","The number of your children, whom you long for, is fulfilled. Ask the power of the Lord, that your people, which have been called from the beginning, may be made holy.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_42","058_2_42","2ES","2","42","42","I, Esdras, saw upon Mount Zion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_43","058_2_43","2ES","2","43","43","In the midst of them, there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and he was more exalted than they were. I marveled greatly at this. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_44","058_2_44","2ES","2","44","44","So I asked the angel, and said, “What are these, my Lord?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_45","058_2_45","2ES","2","45","45","He answered and said to me, “These are those who have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God. Now are they crowned, and receive palms.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_46","058_2_46","2ES","2","46","46","Then said I to the angel, “Who is the young man who sets crowns on them, and gives them palms in their hands?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_47","058_2_47","2ES","2","47","47","So he answered and said to me, “He is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world.” Then I began to praise those who stood so valiently for the name of the Lord. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E22_48","058_2_48","2ES","2","48","48","Then the angel said to me, “Go your way, and tell my people what kind of things, and how great wonders of the Lord God you have seen.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_1","058_3_1","2ES","3","1","1","In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel, also called Esdras, was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_2","058_3_2","2ES","3","2","2","for I saw the desolation of Zion and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_3","058_3_3","2ES","3","3","3","My spirit was very agitated, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_4","058_3_4","2ES","3","4","4","“O sovereign Lord, didn’t you speak at the beginning when you formed the earth—and that yourself alone—and commanded the dust ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_5","058_3_5","2ES","3","5","5","and it gave you Adam, a body without a soul? Yet it was the workmanship of your hands, and you breathed into him the breath of life, and he was made alive in your presence. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_6","058_3_6","2ES","3","6","6","You led him into the garden which your right hand planted before the earth appeared. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_7","058_3_7","2ES","3","7","7","You gave him your one commandment, which he transgressed, and immediately you appointed death for him and his descendants. From him were born nations, tribes, peoples, and kindred without number. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_8","058_3_8","2ES","3","8","8","Every nation walked after their own will, did ungodly things in your sight, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t hinder them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_9","058_3_9","2ES","3","9","9","Nevertheless, again in process of time, you brought the flood on those who lived in the world and destroyed them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_10","058_3_10","2ES","3","10","10","It came to pass that the same thing happened to them. Just as death came to Adam, so was the flood to these. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_11","058_3_11","2ES","3","11","11","Nevertheless, you left one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous men who descended from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_12","058_3_12","2ES","3","12","12","“It came to pass that when those who lived upon the earth began to multiply, they also multiplied children, peoples, and many nations, and began again to be more ungodly than their ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_13","058_3_13","2ES","3","13","13","It came to pass, when they did wickedly before you, you chose one from among them, whose name was Abraham. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_14","058_3_14","2ES","3","14","14","You loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_15","058_3_15","2ES","3","15","15","and made an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that you would never forsake his descendants. To him, you gave Isaac, and to Isaac you gave Jacob and Esau. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_16","058_3_16","2ES","3","16","16","You set apart Jacob for yourself, but rejected Esau. Jacob became a great multitude. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_17","058_3_17","2ES","3","17","17","It came to pass that when you led his descendants out of Egypt, you brought them up to Mount Sinai. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_18","058_3_18","2ES","3","18","18","You bowed the heavens also, shook the earth, moved the whole world, made the depths tremble, and troubled the age. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_19","058_3_19","2ES","3","19","19","Your glory went through four gates, of fire, of earthquake, of wind, and of ice, that you might give the law to the descendants of Jacob, and the commandment to the descendants of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_20","058_3_20","2ES","3","20","20","“Yet you didn’t take away from them their wicked heart, that your law might produce fruit in them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_21","058_3_21","2ES","3","21","21","For the first Adam, burdened with a wicked heart transgressed and was overcome, as were all who are descended from him. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_22","058_3_22","2ES","3","22","22","Thus disease was made permanent. The law was in the heart of the people along with the wickedness of the root. So the good departed away and that which was wicked remained. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_23","058_3_23","2ES","3","23","23","So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end. Then you raised up a servant, called David, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_24","058_3_24","2ES","3","24","24","whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer burnt offerings to you in it from what is yours. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_25","058_3_25","2ES","3","25","25","When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_26","058_3_26","2ES","3","26","26","in all things doing as Adam and all his generations had done, for they also had a wicked heart. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_27","058_3_27","2ES","3","27","27","So you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_28","058_3_28","2ES","3","28","28","“Then I said in my heart, ‘Are their deeds of those who inhabit Babylon any better? Is that why it gained dominion over Zion?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_29","058_3_29","2ES","3","29","29","For it came to pass when I came here, that I also saw impieties without number, and my soul saw many sinners in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_30","058_3_30","2ES","3","30","30","For I have seen how you endure them sinning, and have spared those who act ungodly, and have destroyed your people, and have preserved your enemies; ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_31","058_3_31","2ES","3","31","31","and you have not shown how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Zion? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_32","058_3_32","2ES","3","32","32","Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? Or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_33","058_3_33","2ES","3","33","33","Yet their reward doesn’t appear, and their labor has no fruit, for I have gone here and there through the nations, and I see that they abound in wealth, and don’t think about your commandments. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_34","058_3_34","2ES","3","34","34","Weigh therefore our iniquities now in the balance, and theirs also who dwell in the world, and so will it be found which way the scale inclines. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_35","058_3_35","2ES","3","35","35","Or when was it that they who dwell on the earth have not sinned in your sight? Or what nation has kept your commandments so well? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E23_36","058_3_36","2ES","3","36","36","You will find some men by name who have kept your precepts, but you won’t find nations.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_1","058_4_1","2ES","4","1","1","The angel who was sent to me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_2","058_4_2","2ES","4","2","2","and said to me, “Your understanding has utterly failed you regarding this world. Do you think you can comprehend the way of the Most High?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_3","058_4_3","2ES","4","3","3","Then I said, “Yes, my Lord.” He answered me, “I have been sent to show you three ways, and to set before you three problems. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_4","058_4_4","2ES","4","4","4","If you can solve one for me, I also will show you the way that you desire to see, and I will teach you why the heart is wicked.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_5","058_4_5","2ES","4","5","5","I said, “Say on, my Lord.” Then said he to me, “Go, weigh for me the weight of fire, or measure for me blast of wind, or call back for me the day that is past.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_6","058_4_6","2ES","4","6","6","Then answered I and said, “Who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me about such things?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_7","058_4_7","2ES","4","7","7","He said to me, “If I had asked you, ‘How many dwellings are there in the heart of the sea? Or how many springs are there at the fountain head of the deep? Or how many streams are above the firmament? Or which are the exits of hell? Or which are the entrances of paradise?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_8","058_4_8","2ES","4","8","8","perhaps you would say to me, ‘I never went down into the deep, or as yet into hell, neither did I ever climb up into heaven.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_9","058_4_9","2ES","4","9","9","Nevertheless now I have only asked you about the fire, wind, and the day, things which you have experienced, and from which you can’t be separated, and yet have you given me no answer about them.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_10","058_4_10","2ES","4","10","10","He said moreover to me, “You can’t understand your own things that you grew up with. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_11","058_4_11","2ES","4","11","11","How then can your mind comprehend the way of the Most High? How can he who is already worn out with the corrupted world understand incorruption?” When I heard these things, I fell on my face ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_12","058_4_12","2ES","4","12","12","and said to him, “It would have been better if we weren’t here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know why.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_13","058_4_13","2ES","4","13","13","He answered me, and said, “A forest of the trees of the field went out, and took counsel together, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_14","058_4_14","2ES","4","14","14","and said, ‘Come! Let’s go and make war against the sea, that it may depart away before us, and that we may make ourselves more forests.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_15","058_4_15","2ES","4","15","15","The waves of the sea also in like manner took counsel together, and said, ‘Come! Let’s go up and subdue the forest of the plain, that there also we may gain more territory.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_16","058_4_16","2ES","4","16","16","The counsel of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_17","058_4_17","2ES","4","17","17","Likewise also the counsel of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood up and stopped them. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_18","058_4_18","2ES","4","18","18","If you were judge now between these two, which would you justify, or which would you condemn?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_19","058_4_19","2ES","4","19","19","I answered and said, “It is a foolish counsel that they both have taken, for the ground is given to the wood, and the place of the sea is given to bear its waves.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_20","058_4_20","2ES","4","20","20","Then answered he me, and said, “You have given a right judgment. Why don’t you judge your own case? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_21","058_4_21","2ES","4","21","21","For just as the ground is given to the wood, and the sea to its waves, even so those who dwell upon the earth may understand nothing but what is upon the earth. Only he who dwells above the heavens understands the things that are above the height of the heavens.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_22","058_4_22","2ES","4","22","22","Then answered I and said, “I beg you, O Lord, why has the power of understanding been given to me? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_23","058_4_23","2ES","4","23","23","For it was not in my mind to be curious of the ways above, but of such things as pass by us daily, because Israel is given up as a reproach to the heathen. The people whom you have loved have been given over to ungodly nations. The law of our forefathers is made of no effect, and the written covenants are nowhere regarded. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_24","058_4_24","2ES","4","24","24","We pass away out of the world like locusts. Our life is like a vapor, and we aren’t worthy to obtain mercy. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_25","058_4_25","2ES","4","25","25","What will he then do for his name by which we are called? I have asked about these things.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_26","058_4_26","2ES","4","26","26","Then he answered me, and said, “If you are alive you will see, and if you live long, you will marvel, for the world hastens quickly to pass away. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_27","058_4_27","2ES","4","27","27","For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times to come; for this world is full of sadness and infirmities. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_28","058_4_28","2ES","4","28","28","For the evil about which you asked me has been sown, but its harvest hasn’t yet come. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_29","058_4_29","2ES","4","29","29","If therefore that which is sown isn’t reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown doesn’t pass away, the field where the good is sown won’t come. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_30","058_4_30","2ES","4","30","30","For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness it has produced to this time! How much more it will yet produce until the time of threshing comes! ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_31","058_4_31","2ES","4","31","31","Ponder now by yourself, how much fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has produced. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_32","058_4_32","2ES","4","32","32","When the grains which are without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_33","058_4_33","2ES","4","33","33","Then I answered and said, “How long? When will these things come to pass? Why are our years few and evil?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_34","058_4_34","2ES","4","34","34","He answered me, and said, “Don’t hurry faster than the Most High; for your haste is for your own self, but he who is above hurries on behalf of many. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_35","058_4_35","2ES","4","35","35","Didn’t the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, ‘How long will we be here? When does the fruit of the threshing floor come?’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_36","058_4_36","2ES","4","36","36","To them, Jeremiel the archangel answered, ‘When the number is fulfilled of those who are like you. For he has weighed the world in the balance. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_37","058_4_37","2ES","4","37","37","By measure, he has measured the times. By number, he has counted the seasons. He won’t move or stir them until that measure is fulfilled.’” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_38","058_4_38","2ES","4","38","38","Then I answered, “O sovereign Lord, all of us are full of ungodiness. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_39","058_4_39","2ES","4","39","39","Perhaps it is for our sakes that the threshing time of the righteous is kept back—because of the sins of those who dwell on the earth.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_40","058_4_40","2ES","4","40","40","So he answered me, “Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the baby any longer within her.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_41","058_4_41","2ES","4","41","41","Then I said, “No, Lord, that can it not.” He said to me, “In Hades, the chambers of souls are like the womb. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_42","058_4_42","2ES","4","42","42","For just like a woman in labor hurries to escape the anguish of the labor pains, even so these places hurry to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_43","058_4_43","2ES","4","43","43","Then you will be shown those things which you desire to see.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_44","058_4_44","2ES","4","44","44","Then I answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, and if it is possible, and if I am worthy, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_45","058_4_45","2ES","4","45","45","show me this also, whether there is more to come than is past, or whether the greater part has gone over us. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_46","058_4_46","2ES","4","46","46","For what is gone I know, but I don’t know what is to come.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_47","058_4_47","2ES","4","47","47","He said to me, “Stand up on my right side, and I will explain the parable to you.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_48","058_4_48","2ES","4","48","48","So I stood, looked, and saw a hot burning oven passed by before me. It happened that when the flame had gone by I looked, and saw that the smoke remained. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_49","058_4_49","2ES","4","49","49","After this, a watery cloud passed in front of me, and sent down much rain with a storm. When the stormy rain was past, the drops still remained in it.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_50","058_4_50","2ES","4","50","50","Then said he to me, “Consider with yourself; as the rain is more than the drops, and the fire is greater than the smoke, so the quantity which is past was far greater; but the drops and the smoke still remained.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_51","058_4_51","2ES","4","51","51","Then I prayed, and said, “Do you think that I will live until that time? Or who will be alive in those days?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E24_52","058_4_52","2ES","4","52","52","He answered me, “As for the signs you asked me about, I may tell you of them in part; but I wasn’t sent to tell you about your life, for I don’t know. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_1","058_5_1","2ES","5","1","1","“Nevertheless, concerning the signs, behold, the days will come when those who dwell on earth will be taken with great amazement, and the way of truth will be hidden, and the land will be barren of faith. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_2","058_5_2","2ES","5","2","2","Iniquity will be increased above what now you see, and beyond what you have heard long ago. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_3","058_5_3","2ES","5","3","3","The land that you now see ruling will be a trackless waste, and men will see it desolate. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_4","058_5_4","2ES","5","4","4","But if the Most High grants you to live, you will see what is after the third period will be troubled. The sun will suddenly shine in the night, and the moon in the day. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_5","058_5_5","2ES","5","5","5","Blood will drop out of wood, and the stone will utter its voice. The peoples will be troubled, and the stars will fall. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_6","058_5_6","2ES","5","6","6","He will rule whom those who dwell on the earth don’t expect, and the birds will fly away together. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_7","058_5_7","2ES","5","7","7","The Sodomite sea will cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known; but all will hear its voice. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_8","058_5_8","2ES","5","8","8","There will also be chaos in many places. Fires will break out often, and the wild animals will change their places, and women will bring forth monsters. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_9","058_5_9","2ES","5","9","9","Salt waters will be found in the sweet, and all friends will destroy one another. Then reason will hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into its chamber. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_10","058_5_10","2ES","5","10","10","It will be sought by many, and won’t be found. Unrighteousness and lack of restraint will be multiplied on earth. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_11","058_5_11","2ES","5","11","11","One country will ask another, ‘Has righteousness, or a man that does righteousness, gone through you?’ And it will say, ‘No.’ ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_12","058_5_12","2ES","5","12","12","It will come to pass at that time that men will hope, but won’t obtain. They will labor, but their ways won’t prosper. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_13","058_5_13","2ES","5","13","13","I am permitted to show you such signs. If you will pray again, and weep as now, and fast seven days, you will hear yet greater things than these.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_14","058_5_14","2ES","5","14","14","Then I woke up, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was so troubled that it fainted. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_15","058_5_15","2ES","5","15","15","So the angel who had come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me on my feet. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_16","058_5_16","2ES","5","16","16","In the second night, it came to pass that Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, “Where have you been? Why is your face sad? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_17","058_5_17","2ES","5","17","17","Or don’t you know that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_18","058_5_18","2ES","5","18","18","Get up then, and eat some bread, and don’t forsake us, like a shepherd who leaves the flock in the power of cruel wolves.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_19","058_5_19","2ES","5","19","19","Then said I to him, “Go away from me and don’t come near me for seven days, and then you shall come to me.” He heard what I said and left me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_20","058_5_20","2ES","5","20","20","So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like Uriel the angel had commanded me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_21","058_5_21","2ES","5","21","21","After seven days, the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_22","058_5_22","2ES","5","22","22","and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_23","058_5_23","2ES","5","23","23","I said, “O sovereign Lord of all the woods of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, you have chosen one vine for yourself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_24","058_5_24","2ES","5","24","24","Of all the lands of the world you have chosen one country for yourself. Of all the flowers of the world, you have chosen one lily for yourself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_25","058_5_25","2ES","5","25","25","Of all the depths of the sea, you have filled one river for yourself. Of all built cities, you have consecrated Zion for yourself. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_26","058_5_26","2ES","5","26","26","Of all the birds that are created you have named for yourself one dove. Of all the livestock that have been made, you have provided for yourself one sheep. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_27","058_5_27","2ES","5","27","27","Among all the multitudes of peoples you have gotten yourself one people. To this people, whom you loved, you gave a law that is approved by all. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_28","058_5_28","2ES","5","28","28","Now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and have dishonored the one root above others, and have scattered your only one among many? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_29","058_5_29","2ES","5","29","29","Those who opposed your promises have trampled down those who believed your covenants. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_30","058_5_30","2ES","5","30","30","If you really do hate your people so much, they should be punished with your own hands.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_31","058_5_31","2ES","5","31","31","Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me, ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_32","058_5_32","2ES","5","32","32","and said to me, “Hear me, and I will instruct you. Listen to me, and I will tell you more.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_33","058_5_33","2ES","5","33","33","I said, “Speak on, my Lord.” Then said he to me, “You are very troubled in mind for Israel’s sake. Do you love that people more than he who made them?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_34","058_5_34","2ES","5","34","34","I said, “No, Lord; but I have spoken out of grief; for my heart is in agony every hour while I labor to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgment.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_35","058_5_35","2ES","5","35","35","He said to me, “You can’t.” And I said, “Why, Lord? Why was I born? Why wasn’t my mother’s womb my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the people of Israel?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_36","058_5_36","2ES","5","36","36","He said to me, “Count for me those who haven’t yet come. Gather together for me the drops that are scattered abroad, and make the withered flowers green again for me. ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_37","058_5_37","2ES","5","37","37","Open for me the chambers that are closed, and bring out the winds for me that are shut up in them. Or show me the image of a voice. Then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_38","058_5_38","2ES","5","38","38","And I said, “O sovereign Lord, who may know these things except he who doesn’t have his dwelling with men? ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_39","058_5_39","2ES","5","39","39","As for me, I lack wisdom. How can I then speak of these things you asked me about?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_40","058_5_40","2ES","5","40","40","Then said he to me, “Just as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so you can’t find out my judgment, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_41","058_5_41","2ES","5","41","41","I said, “But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to those who are alive at the end. What should they do who have been before us, or we ourselves, or those who will come after us?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_42","058_5_42","2ES","5","42","42","He said to me, “I will compare my judgment to a ring. Just as there is no slowness of those who are last, even so there is no swiftness of those who be first.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_43","058_5_43","2ES","5","43","43","So I answered, “Couldn’t you make them all at once that have been made, and that are now, and that are yet to come, that you might show your judgment sooner?” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_44","058_5_44","2ES","5","44","44","Then he answered me, “The creature may not move faster than the creator, nor can the world hold them at once who will be created in it.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_45","058_5_45","2ES","5","45","45","And I said, “How have you said to your servant, that you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? If therefore they will be alive at once, and the creation will sustain them, even so it might now also support them to be present at once.” ");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBiblewithDeuterocanon_vpl VALUES ("E25_46","058_5_46","2ES","5","46","46","And he said to me, “Ask the womb of a woman, and say to her, ‘If you bear ten children, why do you it at different times? Ask her therefore to give birth to ten children at once.” ");
