INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.012.038","2MA","12","M212_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M212_38' data-id='M212_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Judas gathered his army and came to the city of <span class='note' id='footnote-1060'><a href='#note-1060' class='key'>*</a></span>Adullam. As the seventh day was coming on, they purified themselves according to the custom, and kept the Sabbath there. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.012.041","2MA","12","M212_41","<span class='v M212_41' data-id='M212_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>All therefore, blessing the ways of the Lord, the righteous Judge, who makes manifest the things that are hidden, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.012.045","2MA","12","M212_45","<span class='v M212_45' data-id='M212_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>But if he was looking forward to an honourable memorial of gratitude laid up for those who <span class='note' id='footnote-1064'><a href='#note-1064' class='key'>*</a></span>die <span class='note' id='footnote-1065'><a href='#note-1065' class='key'>†</a></span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.001","2MA","13","M213_1","<div class='c'>13</div><div class='p'><span class='v M213_1' data-id='M213_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>In the one hundred and forty-ninth year, news was brought to Judas and his company that Antiochus Eupator was coming with multitudes against Judea, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.002","2MA","13","M213_2","<span class='v M213_2' data-id='M213_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, each having a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand and three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.003","2MA","13","M213_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M213_3' data-id='M213_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.005","2MA","13","M213_5","<span class='v M213_5' data-id='M213_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Now there is in that place a tower that is fifty cubits high, full of ashes, and it had all around it a <span class='note' id='footnote-1066'><a href='#note-1066' class='key'>*</a></span>circular rim sloping steeply on every side into the ashes. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.009","2MA","13","M213_9","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M213_9' data-id='M213_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Now the king,<span class='note' id='footnote-1068'><a href='#note-1068' class='key'>‡</a></span> 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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.011","2MA","13","M213_11","<span class='v M213_11' data-id='M213_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and not to allow the people who had just begun to be revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.013","2MA","13","M213_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M213_13' data-id='M213_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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 <span class='note' id='footnote-1070'><a href='#note-1070' class='key'>*</a></span>God. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.017","2MA","13","M213_17","<span class='v M213_17' data-id='M213_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>This had been accomplished when the day was just dawning, because of the Lord’s protection that gave <span class='note' id='footnote-1075'><a href='#note-1075' class='key'>†</a></span>Judas help. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.018","2MA","13","M213_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M213_18' data-id='M213_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>But the king, having had a taste of the exceeding boldness of the Jews, made strategic attacks on their positions, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.025","2MA","13","M213_25","<span class='v M213_25' data-id='M213_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.013.026","2MA","13","M213_26","<span class='v M213_26' data-id='M213_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Lysias <span class='note' id='footnote-1077'><a href='#note-1077' class='key'>§</a></span>came forward to speak, made the best defence 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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.003","2MA","14","M214_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_3' data-id='M214_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>But one Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest, and had wilfully 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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.005","2MA","14","M214_5","<span class='v M214_5' data-id='M214_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.007","2MA","14","M214_7","<span class='v M214_7' data-id='M214_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Therefore, having laid aside my ancestral glory—I mean the high priesthood—I have now come <span class='note' id='footnote-1079'><a href='#note-1079' class='key'>†</a></span>here, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.008","2MA","14","M214_8","<span class='v M214_8' data-id='M214_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.013","2MA","14","M214_13","<span class='v M214_13' data-id='M214_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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 <span class='note' id='footnote-1082'><a href='#note-1082' class='key'>*</a></span>great temple. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.016","2MA","14","M214_16","<span class='v M214_16' data-id='M214_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1084'><a href='#note-1084' class='key'>‡</a></span>When the leader had given orders, he immediately set out from there and joined battle with them at a village called Lessau. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.018","2MA","14","M214_18","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_18' data-id='M214_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>Nevertheless Nicanor, hearing of the valour 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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.026","2MA","14","M214_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_26' data-id='M214_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>But Alcimus, perceiving the good will that was between them, <span class='note' id='footnote-1086'><a href='#note-1086' class='key'>*</a></span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.028","2MA","14","M214_28","<span class='v M214_28' data-id='M214_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>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; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.029","2MA","14","M214_29","<span class='v M214_29' data-id='M214_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>but because there was no opposing the king, he watched his time to execute this purpose by strategy. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.031","2MA","14","M214_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_31' data-id='M214_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>But the other,<span class='note' id='footnote-1087'><a href='#note-1087' class='key'>†</a></span> when he became aware that he had been bravely defeated by the strategy of Judas,<span class='note' id='footnote-1088'><a href='#note-1088' class='key'>‡</a></span> came to the great<span class='note' id='footnote-1089'><a href='#note-1089' class='key'>§</a></span> and holy temple, while the priests were offering the usual sacrifices, and commanded them to hand over the man. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.032","2MA","14","M214_32","<span class='v M214_32' data-id='M214_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>When they declared with oaths that they had no knowledge where the man was whom he sought, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.033","2MA","14","M214_33","<span class='v M214_33' data-id='M214_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>he stretched out his right hand towards the sanctuary, and swore this oath: “If you won’t deliver up to me Judas as a prisoner, I will level this <span class='note' id='footnote-1090'><a href='#note-1090' class='key'>*</a></span>temple of God even with the ground, break down the altar, and I will erect here a temple to Dionysus for all to see. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.034","2MA","14","M214_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_34' data-id='M214_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>And having said this, he departed. But the priests, stretching forth their hands towards heaven, called upon him who always fights for our nation, in these words: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.036","2MA","14","M214_36","<span class='v M214_36' data-id='M214_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>So now, O holy Lord of all holiness, keep undefiled forever this house that has been recently cleansed.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.037","2MA","14","M214_37","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M214_37' data-id='M214_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.038","2MA","14","M214_38","<span class='v M214_38' data-id='M214_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.040","2MA","14","M214_40","<span class='v M214_40' data-id='M214_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>for he thought by seizing him to inflict an injury on them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.042","2MA","14","M214_42","<span class='v M214_42' data-id='M214_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>choosing rather to die nobly than to fall into the hands of the wicked wretches, and suffer outrage unworthy of his own nobleness. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.043","2MA","14","M214_43","<span class='v M214_43' data-id='M214_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>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 amongst the crowds. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.044","2MA","14","M214_44","<span class='v M214_44' data-id='M214_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>But as they quickly gave back, a space was made, and he fell on the middle of <span class='note' id='footnote-1093'><a href='#note-1093' class='key'>§</a></span>his side. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.045","2MA","14","M214_45","<span class='v M214_45' data-id='M214_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.014.046","2MA","14","M214_46","<span class='v M214_46' data-id='M214_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>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 <span class='note' id='footnote-1094'><a href='#note-1094' class='key'>*</a></span>these again, he died like this. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.001","2MA","15","M215_1","<div class='c'>15</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_1' data-id='M215_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.002","2MA","15","M215_2","<span class='v M215_2' data-id='M215_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>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 honoured and hallowed above other days.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.003","2MA","15","M215_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_3' data-id='M215_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then the thrice-accursed wretch asked if there were a Sovereign in heaven who had commanded to keep the Sabbath day. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.004","2MA","15","M215_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_4' data-id='M215_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>When they declared, “There is the Lord, living himself as Sovereign in heaven, who told us observe the seventh day.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.005","2MA","15","M215_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_5' data-id='M215_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.006","2MA","15","M215_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_6' data-id='M215_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>And Nicanor, <span class='note' id='footnote-1095'><a href='#note-1095' class='key'>*</a></span> 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.007","2MA","15","M215_7","<span class='v M215_7' data-id='M215_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>But Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.009","2MA","15","M215_9","<span class='v M215_9' data-id='M215_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.011","2MA","15","M215_11","<span class='v M215_11' data-id='M215_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Arming each one of them, not so much with the sure defence 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.012","2MA","15","M215_12","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_12' data-id='M215_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.015","2MA","15","M215_15","<span class='v M215_15' data-id='M215_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Jeremiah stretched out his right hand and delivered to Judas a gold sword, and in giving it addressed him thus: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.017","2MA","15","M215_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_17' data-id='M215_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.022","2MA","15","M215_22","<span class='v M215_22' data-id='M215_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>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 <span class='note' id='footnote-1100'><a href='#note-1100' class='key'>†</a></span>army of Sennacherib as many as one hundred and eighty-five thousand. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.023","2MA","15","M215_23","<span class='v M215_23' data-id='M215_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>So now also, O Sovereign of the heavens, send a good angel before us to bring terror and trembling. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.024","2MA","15","M215_24","<span class='v M215_24' data-id='M215_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.025","2MA","15","M215_25","<span class='v M215_25' data-id='M215_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Nicanor and his company advanced with trumpets and victory songs; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.026","2MA","15","M215_26","<span class='v M215_26' data-id='M215_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>but Judas and his company joined battle with the enemy with invocation and prayers. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.027","2MA","15","M215_27","<span class='v M215_27' data-id='M215_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.028","2MA","15","M215_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_28' data-id='M215_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>When the engagement was over and they were returning again with joy, they recognised Nicanor lying dead in full armour. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.029","2MA","15","M215_29","<span class='v M215_29' data-id='M215_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Then there was shouting and noise, and they blessed the Sovereign Lord in the language of their ancestors. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.030","2MA","15","M215_30","<span class='v M215_30' data-id='M215_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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 towards his countrymen, ordered that Nicanor’s head be cut off with his hand and arm, and that they be brought to Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.031","2MA","15","M215_31","<span class='v M215_31' data-id='M215_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.033","2MA","15","M215_33","<span class='v M215_33' data-id='M215_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.034","2MA","15","M215_34","<span class='v M215_34' data-id='M215_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>They all, looking up to heaven, blessed the Lord who had manifested himself, saying, “Blessed is he who has preserved his own place undefiled!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.036","2MA","15","M215_36","<span class='v M215_36' data-id='M215_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>They all ordained with a common decree to in no way let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honour the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian language), the day before the day of Mordecai. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.037","2MA","15","M215_37","</div><div class='b'> &#160; </div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_37' data-id='M215_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.038","2MA","15","M215_38","<span class='v M215_38' data-id='M215_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("053.015.039","2MA","15","M215_39","<span class='v M215_39' data-id='M215_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>For as it is <span class='note' id='footnote-1101'><a href='#note-1101' class='key'>‡</a></span>distasteful to drink wine alone and likewise to drink water alone, <span class='note' id='footnote-1102'><a href='#note-1102' class='key'>§</a></span>while the mingling of wine with water at once gives full pleasantness to the flavour; so also the fashioning of the language delights the ears of those who read the story. </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v M215_39' data-id='M215_39'>Here is the end. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.001.001","1ES","1","E11_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v E11_1' data-id='E11_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1103'><a href='#note-1103' class='key'>✡</a></span>Josias held the Passover in Jerusalem to his Lord, and offered the Passover the fourteenth day of the first month, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.001.002","1ES","1","E11_2","<span class='v E11_2' data-id='E11_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the Lord’s temple. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.001.004","1ES","1","E11_4","<span class='v E11_4' data-id='E11_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.023","1ES","2","E12_23","<span class='v E12_23' data-id='E12_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>and that the Jews were rebellious, and kept starting wars there in the past. For this cause, this city was laid waste. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.024","1ES","2","E12_24","<span class='v E12_24' data-id='E12_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.025","1ES","2","E12_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E12_25' data-id='E12_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>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: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.026","1ES","2","E12_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E12_26' data-id='E12_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>“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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.027","1ES","2","E12_27","<span class='v E12_27' data-id='E12_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.029","1ES","2","E12_29","<span class='v E12_29' data-id='E12_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>and that those wicked doings proceed no further to the annoyance of kings.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.002.030","1ES","2","E12_30","<span class='v E12_30' data-id='E12_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.001","1ES","3","E13_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v E13_1' data-id='E13_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.002","1ES","3","E13_2","<span class='v E13_2' data-id='E13_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>and for all the local governors and captains and governors who were under him, from India to Ethiopia, in the one hundred and twenty seven provinces. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.003","1ES","3","E13_3","<span class='v E13_3' data-id='E13_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.004","1ES","3","E13_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E13_4' data-id='E13_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>Then the three young men of the bodyguard, who guarded the king, spoke one to another: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.005","1ES","3","E13_5","<span class='v E13_5' data-id='E13_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>“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 honours in token of victory. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.006","1ES","3","E13_6","<span class='v E13_6' data-id='E13_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.007","1ES","3","E13_7","<span class='v E13_7' data-id='E13_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>He shall sit next to Darius because of his wisdom, and shall be called cousin of Darius.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.008","1ES","3","E13_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E13_8' data-id='E13_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Then they each wrote his sentence, sealed them, and laid them under King Darius’ pillow, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.009","1ES","3","E13_9","<span class='v E13_9' data-id='E13_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.010","1ES","3","E13_10","<span class='v E13_10' data-id='E13_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The first wrote, “Wine is the strongest.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.011","1ES","3","E13_11","<span class='v E13_11' data-id='E13_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>The second wrote, “The king is strongest.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.012","1ES","3","E13_12","<span class='v E13_12' data-id='E13_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>The third wrote, “Women are strongest, but above all things Truth is the victor.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.014","1ES","3","E13_14","<span class='v E13_14' data-id='E13_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Sending out, he called all the princes of Persia and of Media, the local governors, the captains, the governors, and the chief officers </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.015","1ES","3","E13_15","<span class='v E13_15' data-id='E13_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>and sat himself down in the royal seat of judgement; and the writing was read before them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.016","1ES","3","E13_16","<span class='v E13_16' data-id='E13_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>He said, “Call the young men, and they shall explain their own sentences. So they were called and came in. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.017","1ES","3","E13_17","<span class='v E13_17' data-id='E13_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>They said to them, “Explain what you have written.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E13_17' data-id='E13_17'>Then the first, who had spoken of the strength of wine, began </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.018","1ES","3","E13_18","<span class='v E13_18' data-id='E13_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>and said this: “O sirs, how exceedingly strong wine is! It causes all men who drink it to go astray. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.019","1ES","3","E13_19","<span class='v E13_19' data-id='E13_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>It makes the mind of the king and of the fatherless child to be the same, likewise of the bondman and of the freeman, of the poor man and of the rich. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.020","1ES","3","E13_20","<span class='v E13_20' data-id='E13_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>It also turns every thought into cheer and mirth, so that a man remembers neither sorrow nor debt. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.021","1ES","3","E13_21","<span class='v E13_21' data-id='E13_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>It makes every heart rich, so that a man remembers neither king nor local governor. It makes people say things in large amounts. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.022","1ES","3","E13_22","<span class='v E13_22' data-id='E13_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>When they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and kindred, and before long draw their swords. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.023","1ES","3","E13_23","<span class='v E13_23' data-id='E13_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>But when they awake from their wine, they don’t remember what they have done. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.003.024","1ES","3","E13_24","<span class='v E13_24' data-id='E13_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>O sirs, isn’t wine the strongest, seeing that it forces people to do this?” And when he had said this, he stopped speaking. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.001","1ES","4","E14_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_1' data-id='E14_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then the second, who had spoken of the strength of the king, began to say, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.002","1ES","4","E14_2","<span class='v E14_2' data-id='E14_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>“O sirs, don’t men excel in strength who rule over the sea and land, and all things in them? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.003","1ES","4","E14_3","<span class='v E14_3' data-id='E14_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>But yet the king is stronger. He is their lord and has dominion over them. In whatever he commands them, they obey him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.004","1ES","4","E14_4","<span class='v E14_4' data-id='E14_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>If he tells them to make war the one against the other, they do it. If he sends them out against the enemies, they go, and conquer mountains, walls, and towers. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.005","1ES","4","E14_5","<span class='v E14_5' data-id='E14_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.006","1ES","4","E14_6","<span class='v E14_6' data-id='E14_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.007","1ES","4","E14_7","<span class='v E14_7' data-id='E14_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>He is just one man! If he commands people to kill, they kill. If he commands them to spare, they spare. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.008","1ES","4","E14_8","<span class='v E14_8' data-id='E14_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.009","1ES","4","E14_9","<span class='v E14_9' data-id='E14_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>If he commands them to cut down, they cut down. If he commands them to plant, they plant. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.010","1ES","4","E14_10","<span class='v E14_10' data-id='E14_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>So all his people and his armies obey him. Furthermore, he lies down, he eats and drinks, and takes his rest; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.011","1ES","4","E14_11","<span class='v E14_11' data-id='E14_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>and these keep watch around him. None of them may depart and do his own business. They don’t disobey him in anything. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.012","1ES","4","E14_12","<span class='v E14_12' data-id='E14_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>O sirs, how could the king not be the strongest, seeing that he is obeyed like this?” Then he stopped talking. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.013","1ES","4","E14_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_13' data-id='E14_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Then the third, who had spoken of women, and of truth, (this was Zorobabel) began to speak: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.014","1ES","4","E14_14","<span class='v E14_14' data-id='E14_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>“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? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.015","1ES","4","E14_15","<span class='v E14_15' data-id='E14_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>Women have given birth to the king and all the people who rule over sea and land. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.016","1ES","4","E14_16","<span class='v E14_16' data-id='E14_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>They came from women. Women nourished up those who planted the vineyards, from where the wine comes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.017","1ES","4","E14_17","<span class='v E14_17' data-id='E14_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Women also make garments for men. These bring glory to men. Without women, men can’t exist. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.018","1ES","4","E14_18","<span class='v E14_18' data-id='E14_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.019","1ES","4","E14_19","<span class='v E14_19' data-id='E14_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.020","1ES","4","E14_20","<span class='v E14_20' data-id='E14_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>A man leaves his own father who brought him up, leaves his own country, and joins with his wife. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.021","1ES","4","E14_21","<span class='v E14_21' data-id='E14_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>With his wife he ends his days, with no thought for his father, mother, or country. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.022","1ES","4","E14_22","<span class='v E14_22' data-id='E14_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>By this also you must know that women have dominion over you. Don’t you labour and toil, and bring it all to give to women? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.023","1ES","4","E14_23","<span class='v E14_23' data-id='E14_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>Yes, a man takes his sword and goes out to travel, to rob, to steal, and to sail on the sea and on rivers. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.024","1ES","4","E14_24","<span class='v E14_24' data-id='E14_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>He sees a lion and walks in the darkness. When he has stolen, plundered, and robbed, he brings it to the woman he loves. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.025","1ES","4","E14_25","<span class='v E14_25' data-id='E14_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Therefore a man loves his wife better than father or mother. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.026","1ES","4","E14_26","<span class='v E14_26' data-id='E14_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Yes, there are many who have lost their minds for women, and become slaves for their sakes. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.027","1ES","4","E14_27","<span class='v E14_27' data-id='E14_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Many also have perished, have stumbled, and sinned, for women. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.028","1ES","4","E14_28","<span class='v E14_28' data-id='E14_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Now don’t you believe me? Isn’t the king great in his power? Don’t all regions fear to touch him? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.029","1ES","4","E14_29","<span class='v E14_29' data-id='E14_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Yet I saw him and Apame the king’s concubine, the daughter of the illustrious Barticus, sitting at the right hand of the king, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.030","1ES","4","E14_30","<span class='v E14_30' data-id='E14_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.031","1ES","4","E14_31","<span class='v E14_31' data-id='E14_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.032","1ES","4","E14_32","<span class='v E14_32' data-id='E14_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>O sirs, how can it not be that women are strong, seeing they do this?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.033","1ES","4","E14_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_33' data-id='E14_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Then the king and the nobles looked at one another. So he began to speak concerning truth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.034","1ES","4","E14_34","<span class='v E14_34' data-id='E14_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>“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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.035","1ES","4","E14_35","<span class='v E14_35' data-id='E14_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Isn’t he who makes these things great? Therefore the truth is great, and stronger than all things. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.036","1ES","4","E14_36","<span class='v E14_36' data-id='E14_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>All the earth calls upon truth, and the sky blesses truth. All works shake and tremble, but with truth there is no unrighteous thing. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.037","1ES","4","E14_37","<span class='v E14_37' data-id='E14_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.038","1ES","4","E14_38","<span class='v E14_38' data-id='E14_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>But truth remains, and is strong forever. Truth lives and conquers forevermore. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.039","1ES","4","E14_39","<span class='v E14_39' data-id='E14_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>With truth there is no partiality towards persons or rewards, but truth does the things that are just, instead of any unrighteous or wicked things. All men approve truth’s works. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.040","1ES","4","E14_40","<span class='v E14_40' data-id='E14_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>In truth’s judgement is not any unrighteousness. Truth is the strength, the kingdom, the power, and the majesty of all ages. Blessed be the God of truth!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.041","1ES","4","E14_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_41' data-id='E14_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>With that, he stopped speaking. Then all the people shouted and said, “Great is truth, and strong above all things!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.042","1ES","4","E14_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_42' data-id='E14_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.043","1ES","4","E14_43","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E14_43' data-id='E14_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Then he said to the king, “Remember your vow, which you vowed to build Jerusalem, in the day when you came to your kingdom, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.004.053","1ES","4","E14_53","<span class='v E14_53' data-id='E14_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.001","1ES","5","E15_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_1' data-id='E15_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.004","1ES","5","E15_4","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_4' data-id='E15_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>These are the names of the men who went up, according to their families amongst their tribes, after their several divisions. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.006","1ES","5","E15_6","<span class='v E15_6' data-id='E15_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.044","1ES","5","E15_44","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_44' data-id='E15_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.046","1ES","5","E15_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_46' data-id='E15_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.056","1ES","5","E15_56","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_56' data-id='E15_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.066","1ES","5","E15_66","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_66' data-id='E15_66'><span class='v-num v-66'>66&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1210'><a href='#note-1210' class='key'>✡</a></span> Therefore when the enemies of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin heard it, they came to know what that noise of trumpets meant. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.069","1ES","5","E15_69","<span class='v E15_69' data-id='E15_69'><span class='v-num v-69'>69&#160;</span>For we, just like you, obey your Lord, and sacrifice to him from the days of King <span class='note' id='footnote-1211'><a href='#note-1211' class='key'>§</a></span> Asbasareth of the Assyrians, who brought us here.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.005.070","1ES","5","E15_70","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E15_70' data-id='E15_70'><span class='v-num v-70'>70&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.003","1ES","6","E16_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E16_3' data-id='E16_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1214'><a href='#note-1214' class='key'>✡</a></span>At the same time <span class='note' id='footnote-1215'><a href='#note-1215' class='key'>†</a></span>Sisinnes the governor of Syria and Phoenicia came to them, with <span class='note' id='footnote-1216'><a href='#note-1216' class='key'>‡</a></span>Sathrabuzanes and his companions, and said to them, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.004","1ES","6","E16_4","<span class='v E16_4' data-id='E16_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“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?” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.010","1ES","6","E16_10","<span class='v E16_10' data-id='E16_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.019","1ES","6","E16_19","<span class='v E16_19' data-id='E16_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.023","1ES","6","E16_23","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E16_23' data-id='E16_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1218'><a href='#note-1218' class='key'>✡</a></span>Then King Darius commanded that a search be made amongst 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: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.027","1ES","6","E16_27","<span class='v E16_27' data-id='E16_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.029","1ES","6","E16_29","<span class='v E16_29' data-id='E16_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.006.030","1ES","6","E16_30","<span class='v E16_30' data-id='E16_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.001","1ES","8","E18_1","<div class='c'>8</div><div class='p'><span class='v E18_1' data-id='E18_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1220'><a href='#note-1220' class='key'>✡</a></span> 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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.010","1ES","8","E18_10","<span class='v E18_10' data-id='E18_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.011","1ES","8","E18_11","<span class='v E18_11' data-id='E18_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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 counsellors, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.014","1ES","8","E18_14","<span class='v E18_14' data-id='E18_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.021","1ES","8","E18_21","<span class='v E18_21' data-id='E18_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.029","1ES","8","E18_29","<span class='v E18_29' data-id='E18_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>of the sons of Phinees, Gerson; of the sons of Ithamar, Gamael; of the sons of David,<span class='note' id='footnote-1226'><a href='#note-1226' class='key'>†</a></span> Attus<span class='note' id='footnote-1227'><a href='#note-1227' class='key'>‡</a></span> the son of Sechenias; </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.051","1ES","8","E18_51","<span class='v E18_51' data-id='E18_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>for I was ashamed to ask of the king infantry, cavalry, and an escort for protection against our adversaries. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.058","1ES","8","E18_58","<span class='v E18_58' data-id='E18_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.078","1ES","8","E18_78","<span class='v E18_78' data-id='E18_78'><span class='v-num v-78'>78&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.080","1ES","8","E18_80","<span class='v E18_80' data-id='E18_80'><span class='v-num v-80'>80&#160;</span>Yes, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken by our Lord, but he gave us favour before the kings of Persia, so that they gave us food, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.081","1ES","8","E18_81","<span class='v E18_81' data-id='E18_81'><span class='v-num v-81'>81&#160;</span>glorified the temple of our Lord, and raised up the desolate Zion, to give us a sure dwelling in Judea and Jerusalem. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.082","1ES","8","E18_82","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E18_82' data-id='E18_82'><span class='v-num v-82'>82&#160;</span>“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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.083","1ES","8","E18_83","<span class='v E18_83' data-id='E18_83'><span class='v-num v-83'>83&#160;</span>‘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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.084","1ES","8","E18_84","<span class='v E18_84' data-id='E18_84'><span class='v-num v-84'>84&#160;</span>Therefore now you shall not join your daughters to their sons, neither shall you take their daughters for your sons. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.085","1ES","8","E18_85","<span class='v E18_85' data-id='E18_85'><span class='v-num v-85'>85&#160;</span>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.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.086","1ES","8","E18_86","<span class='v E18_86' data-id='E18_86'><span class='v-num v-86'>86&#160;</span>All that has happened is done to us for our wicked works and great sins, for you, O Lord, made our sins light, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.087","1ES","8","E18_87","<span class='v E18_87' data-id='E18_87'><span class='v-num v-87'>87&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.089","1ES","8","E18_89","<span class='v E18_89' data-id='E18_89'><span class='v-num v-89'>89&#160;</span>O Lord of Israel, you are true, for we are left a root this day. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.008.091","1ES","8","E18_91","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E18_91' data-id='E18_91'><span class='v-num v-91'>91&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1238'><a href='#note-1238' class='key'>✡</a></span>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 amongst the multitude. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("054.009.003","1ES","9","E19_3","<span class='v E19_3' data-id='E19_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>A proclamation was made in all Judea and Jerusalem to all those who returned from captivity, that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("055.001.008","MAN","1","PN1_8","<span class='v PN1_8' data-id='PN1_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1286'><a href='#note-1286' class='key'>*</a></span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("055.001.011","MAN","1","PN1_11","<span class='v PN1_11' data-id='PN1_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Now therefore I bow the knee of my heart, asking you for grace. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("056.001.003","PS2","1","PX1_3","</div><div class='q'><span class='v PX1_3' data-id='PX1_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Who shall tell my Lord? </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v PX1_3' data-id='PX1_3'>The Lord himself, he himself hears. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("056.001.004","PS2","1","PX1_4","</div><div class='q'><span class='v PX1_4' data-id='PX1_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>He sent forth his angel and took me from my father’s sheep, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v PX1_4' data-id='PX1_4'>and he anointed me with his anointing oil. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("056.001.005","PS2","1","PX1_5","</div><div class='q'><span class='v PX1_5' data-id='PX1_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>My brothers were handsome and tall; </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v PX1_5' data-id='PX1_5'>but the Lord didn’t take pleasure in them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("056.001.006","PS2","1","PX1_6","</div><div class='q'><span class='v PX1_6' data-id='PX1_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>I went out to meet the Philistine, </span></div><div class='q2'><span class='v PX1_6' data-id='PX1_6'>and he cursed me by his idols. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.001","3MA","1","M31_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v M31_1' data-id='M31_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.002","3MA","1","M31_2","<span class='v M31_2' data-id='M31_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.003","3MA","1","M31_3","<span class='v M31_3' data-id='M31_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.004","3MA","1","M31_4","<span class='v M31_4' data-id='M31_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.005","3MA","1","M31_5","<span class='v M31_5' data-id='M31_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.006","3MA","1","M31_6","<span class='v M31_6' data-id='M31_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighbouring cities, and encourage them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.007","3MA","1","M31_7","<span class='v M31_7' data-id='M31_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>By doing this, and by making donations to their temples, he inspired his subjects with confidence. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.008","3MA","1","M31_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M31_8' data-id='M31_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.010","3MA","1","M31_10","<span class='v M31_10' data-id='M31_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.012","3MA","1","M31_12","<span class='v M31_12' data-id='M31_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>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 honour, I shouldn’t be.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.016","3MA","1","M31_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M31_16' data-id='M31_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.021","3MA","1","M31_21","<span class='v M31_21' data-id='M31_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Various prayers were offered up by those who assembled in this place because of the unholy attempt of the king. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.001.025","3MA","1","M31_25","<span class='v M31_25' data-id='M31_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>The elders who surrounded the king tried in many ways to divert his arrogant mind from the design which he had formed. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.003","3MA","2","M32_3","<span class='v M32_3' data-id='M32_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.004","3MA","2","M32_4","<span class='v M32_4' data-id='M32_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>It was you who destroyed the former workers of unrighteousness, amongst whom were the giants, who trusted in their strength and daring, by covering them with a measureless flood. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.006","3MA","2","M32_6","<span class='v M32_6' data-id='M32_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.008","3MA","2","M32_8","<span class='v M32_8' data-id='M32_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>These saw and felt the works of your hands, and praised you, the Almighty. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.009","3MA","2","M32_9","<span class='v M32_9' data-id='M32_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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 honourable name. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.010","3MA","2","M32_10","<span class='v M32_10' data-id='M32_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.012","3MA","2","M32_12","<span class='v M32_12' data-id='M32_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When you often aided our fathers when hard pressed and humiliated, and delivered them out of great dangers, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.013","3MA","2","M32_13","<span class='v M32_13' data-id='M32_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.014","3MA","2","M32_14","<span class='v M32_14' data-id='M32_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>In our low condition, this bold and profane man seeks to dishonour this your holy place, consecrated out of the earth to the name of your Majesty. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.016","3MA","2","M32_16","<span class='v M32_16' data-id='M32_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>But since it seemed good to you to exhibit your glory amongst your people Israel, you sanctified this place. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.024","3MA","2","M32_24","<span class='v M32_24' data-id='M32_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>When in course of time he had come to himself, this severe punishment caused no repentance within him, but he departed with bitter threatenings. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.025","3MA","2","M32_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M32_25' data-id='M32_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>He proceeded to Egypt, grew worse in wickedness through his previously mentioned companions in wine, who were lost to all goodness, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.026","3MA","2","M32_26","<span class='v M32_26' data-id='M32_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.027","3MA","2","M32_27","<span class='v M32_27' data-id='M32_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.028","3MA","2","M32_28","<span class='v M32_28' data-id='M32_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“Entrance to this temple is to be refused to all those who would not sacrifice. All the Jews were to be registered amongst the slaves. Those who resisted are to be forcibly seized and put to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.029","3MA","2","M32_29","<span class='v M32_29' data-id='M32_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.030","3MA","2","M32_30","<span class='v M32_30' data-id='M32_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.031","3MA","2","M32_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M32_31' data-id='M32_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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 honour from a future connection with him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.032","3MA","2","M32_32","<span class='v M32_32' data-id='M32_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.002.033","3MA","2","M32_33","<span class='v M32_33' data-id='M32_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.001","3MA","3","M33_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v M33_1' data-id='M33_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.002","3MA","3","M33_2","<span class='v M33_2' data-id='M33_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>While this was going on, a hostile rumour 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.003","3MA","3","M33_3","<span class='v M33_3' data-id='M33_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Now the Jews always maintained a feeling of unwavering loyalty towards the kings, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.004","3MA","3","M33_4","<span class='v M33_4' data-id='M33_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>yet, as they worshipped God and observed his law, they made certain distinctions, and avoided certain things. Hence they appeared hateful to some people, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.005","3MA","3","M33_5","<span class='v M33_5' data-id='M33_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>although, as they adorned their conversation with works of righteousness, they had established themselves in the good opinion of the world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.006","3MA","3","M33_6","<span class='v M33_6' data-id='M33_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>What all the rest of mankind said was, however, disregarded by the foreigners, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.007","3MA","3","M33_7","<span class='v M33_7' data-id='M33_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.008","3MA","3","M33_8","<span class='v M33_8' data-id='M33_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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 favourable turn of affairs. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.009","3MA","3","M33_9","<span class='v M33_9' data-id='M33_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>He who knows all things will not, they said, disregard so great a people. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.010","3MA","3","M33_10","<span class='v M33_10' data-id='M33_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>Some of the neighbours, 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.011","3MA","3","M33_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M33_11' data-id='M33_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.012","3MA","3","M33_12","<span class='v M33_12' data-id='M33_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>“King Ptolemy Philopater, to the commanders and soldiers in Egypt, and in all places, health and happiness! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.013","3MA","3","M33_13","<span class='v M33_13' data-id='M33_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>I am doing well, and so, too, are my affairs. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.014","3MA","3","M33_14","<span class='v M33_14' data-id='M33_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>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 vigour, has been brought to a successful conclusion according to our expectation, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.015","3MA","3","M33_15","<span class='v M33_15' data-id='M33_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.016","3MA","3","M33_16","<span class='v M33_16' data-id='M33_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>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 honour the temple of these wretched beings who never cease from their folly. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.017","3MA","3","M33_17","<span class='v M33_17' data-id='M33_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>To outward appearance they received us willingly, but belied that appearance by their deeds. When we were eager to enter their temple, and to honour it with the most beautiful and exquisite gifts, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.018","3MA","3","M33_18","<span class='v M33_18' data-id='M33_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>they were so carried away by their old arrogance as to forbid us the entrance, while we, out of our forbearance towards all men, refrained from exercising our power upon them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.019","3MA","3","M33_19","<span class='v M33_19' data-id='M33_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Thus, exhibiting their enmity against us, they alone amongst the nations lift up their heads against kings and benefactors, as men unwilling to submit to any reasonable thing. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.020","3MA","3","M33_20","<span class='v M33_20' data-id='M33_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.021","3MA","3","M33_21","<span class='v M33_21' data-id='M33_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.022","3MA","3","M33_22","<span class='v M33_22' data-id='M33_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.023","3MA","3","M33_23","<span class='v M33_23' data-id='M33_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>have rejected the inestimable rights. Not only so, but by using speech, and by refraining from speech, they abhor the few amongst them who are heartily disposed towards us, ever deeming that their infamous way of life will force us to do away with our reform. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.024","3MA","3","M33_24","<span class='v M33_24' data-id='M33_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>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 amongst ourselves when these impious men may turn traitors and barbarous enemies. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.025","3MA","3","M33_25","<span class='v M33_25' data-id='M33_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Therefore, as soon as the contents of this letter become known to you, in that same hour we order those Jews who dwell amongst 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.026","3MA","3","M33_26","<span class='v M33_26' data-id='M33_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.027","3MA","3","M33_27","<span class='v M33_27' data-id='M33_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Whoever protects a Jew, whether it be old man, child, or nursing baby, shall with his whole house be tortured to death. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.028","3MA","3","M33_28","<span class='v M33_28' data-id='M33_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Whoever informs against the Jews, besides receiving the property of the person charged, shall be presented with two thousand drachmas<span class='note' id='footnote-1292'><a href='#note-1292' class='key'>*</a></span> from the royal treasury, shall be made free, and shall be crowned. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.029","3MA","3","M33_29","<span class='v M33_29' data-id='M33_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.003.030","3MA","3","M33_30","<span class='v M33_30' data-id='M33_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>The king’s letter was written in the above form. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.001","3MA","4","M34_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v M34_1' data-id='M34_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.003","3MA","4","M34_3","<span class='v M34_3' data-id='M34_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>What home, or city, or any inhabited place, or what streets were there, which their condition didn’t fill with wailing and lamentation? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.004","3MA","4","M34_4","<span class='v M34_4' data-id='M34_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.005","3MA","4","M34_5","<span class='v M34_5' data-id='M34_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.006","3MA","4","M34_6","<span class='v M34_6' data-id='M34_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.007","3MA","4","M34_7","<span class='v M34_7' data-id='M34_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Bound and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.008","3MA","4","M34_8","<span class='v M34_8' data-id='M34_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.009","3MA","4","M34_9","<span class='v M34_9' data-id='M34_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.010","3MA","4","M34_10","<span class='v M34_10' data-id='M34_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.011","3MA","4","M34_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M34_11' data-id='M34_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.012","3MA","4","M34_12","<span class='v M34_12' data-id='M34_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>When this was done, the king, hearing that their kindred in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.013","3MA","4","M34_13","<span class='v M34_13' data-id='M34_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same—and not one bit milder—treatment. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.014","3MA","4","M34_14","<span class='v M34_14' data-id='M34_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name, not for that hard servitude of labour 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.015","3MA","4","M34_15","<span class='v M34_15' data-id='M34_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.016","3MA","4","M34_16","<span class='v M34_16' data-id='M34_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.017","3MA","4","M34_17","<span class='v M34_17' data-id='M34_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.018","3MA","4","M34_18","<span class='v M34_18' data-id='M34_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.019","3MA","4","M34_19","<span class='v M34_19' data-id='M34_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.020","3MA","4","M34_20","<span class='v M34_20' data-id='M34_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.004.021","3MA","4","M34_21","<span class='v M34_21' data-id='M34_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>Now this was an active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.001","3MA","5","M35_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v M35_1' data-id='M35_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.002","3MA","5","M35_2","<span class='v M35_2' data-id='M35_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.003","3MA","5","M35_3","<span class='v M35_3' data-id='M35_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.004","3MA","5","M35_4","<span class='v M35_4' data-id='M35_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>The master of the elephants, Hermon, fulfilled his commission punctually. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.005","3MA","5","M35_5","<span class='v M35_5' data-id='M35_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.006","3MA","5","M35_6","<span class='v M35_6' data-id='M35_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection, for chains bound them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.007","3MA","5","M35_7","<span class='v M35_7' data-id='M35_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>They invoked the Almighty Lord, and ceaselessly implored with tears their merciful God and Father, Ruler of all, Lord of every power, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.008","3MA","5","M35_8","<span class='v M35_8' data-id='M35_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.009","3MA","5","M35_9","<span class='v M35_9' data-id='M35_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Their earnest entreaty went up to heaven. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.010","3MA","5","M35_10","<span class='v M35_10' data-id='M35_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.011","3MA","5","M35_11","<span class='v M35_11' data-id='M35_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.013","3MA","5","M35_13","<span class='v M35_13' data-id='M35_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.016","3MA","5","M35_16","<span class='v M35_16' data-id='M35_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>The king listened to this, and then turning aside to his drinking, commanded the guests to sit down before him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.019","3MA","5","M35_19","<span class='v M35_19' data-id='M35_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>Hermon explained that he had done his bidding over night; and in this he was confirmed by his friends. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.020","3MA","5","M35_20","<span class='v M35_20' data-id='M35_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.021","3MA","5","M35_21","<span class='v M35_21' data-id='M35_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>When the king said this, the company present were glad, and approved. Then each man went to his own home. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.022","3MA","5","M35_22","<span class='v M35_22' data-id='M35_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>They didn’t employ the night in sleep, but in contriving cruel mockeries for those deemed miserable. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.028","3MA","5","M35_28","<span class='v M35_28' data-id='M35_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>But this was the working of that Almighty God who had made him forget all his purpose. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.029","3MA","5","M35_29","<span class='v M35_29' data-id='M35_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Hermon and all his friends pointed out the preparation of the animals. They are ready, O king, according to your own strict injunction. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.030","3MA","5","M35_30","<span class='v M35_30' data-id='M35_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.031","3MA","5","M35_31","<span class='v M35_31' data-id='M35_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>“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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.032","3MA","5","M35_32","<span class='v M35_32' data-id='M35_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Had it not been for familiar friendship, and the claims of your office, your life should have gone for theirs.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.033","3MA","5","M35_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M35_33' data-id='M35_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Hermon, being threatened in this unexpected and alarming manner, was troubled in his eyes, and his face fell. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.034","3MA","5","M35_34","<span class='v M35_34' data-id='M35_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>The friends, too, stole out one by one, and dismissed the assembled multitudes to their respective occupations. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.035","3MA","5","M35_35","<span class='v M35_35' data-id='M35_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>The Jews, having heard of these events, praised the glorious God and King of kings, because they had obtained this help, too, from him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.036","3MA","5","M35_36","<span class='v M35_36' data-id='M35_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Now the king arranged another banquet in the same way, and proclaimed an invitation to mirth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.037","3MA","5","M35_37","<span class='v M35_37' data-id='M35_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.038","3MA","5","M35_38","<span class='v M35_38' data-id='M35_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Once more, arm the elephants for the extermination of the Jews tomorrow!” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.041","3MA","5","M35_41","<span class='v M35_41' data-id='M35_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.044","3MA","5","M35_44","<span class='v M35_44' data-id='M35_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.005.047","3MA","5","M35_47","<span class='v M35_47' data-id='M35_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.003","3MA","6","M36_3","<span class='v M36_3' data-id='M36_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.025","3MA","6","M36_25","<span class='v M36_25' data-id='M36_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Who has gathered here, unreasonably removing each from his home, those who, in fidelity to us, had held the fortresses of the country? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.026","3MA","6","M36_26","<span class='v M36_26' data-id='M36_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>Who has consigned to unmerited punishments those who in good will towards us from the beginning have in all things surpassed all nations, and who often have engaged in the most dangerous undertakings? </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.029","3MA","6","M36_29","<span class='v M36_29' data-id='M36_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>He said these things, and they, released the same moment, having now escaped death, praised God their holy Saviour. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.030","3MA","6","M36_30","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M36_30' data-id='M36_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.031","3MA","6","M36_31","<span class='v M36_31' data-id='M36_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.032","3MA","6","M36_32","<span class='v M36_32' data-id='M36_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Ceasing their miserable strain of woe, they took up the subject of their fatherland, singing in praise to God their wonder-working Saviour. All groans and all wailing were laid aside. They formed dances as a sign of peaceful joy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.033","3MA","6","M36_33","<span class='v M36_33' data-id='M36_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.035","3MA","6","M36_35","<span class='v M36_35' data-id='M36_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.036","3MA","6","M36_36","<span class='v M36_36' data-id='M36_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.037","3MA","6","M36_37","<span class='v M36_37' data-id='M36_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>They requested the king to send them back to their homes. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.039","3MA","6","M36_39","<span class='v M36_39' data-id='M36_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>The Ruler over all during this time manifested his mercy gloriously, and delivered them all together unharmed. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.006.041","3MA","6","M36_41","<span class='v M36_41' data-id='M36_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>The king commended them, and wrote the following letter, of magnanimous import for them, to the commanders of every city: </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.002","3MA","7","M37_2","<span class='v M37_2' data-id='M37_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>We, too, and our children are well. God has directed our affairs as we wish. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.003","3MA","7","M37_3","<span class='v M37_3' data-id='M37_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.004","3MA","7","M37_4","<span class='v M37_4' data-id='M37_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.005","3MA","7","M37_5","<span class='v M37_5' data-id='M37_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.006","3MA","7","M37_6","<span class='v M37_6' data-id='M37_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.007","3MA","7","M37_7","<span class='v M37_7' data-id='M37_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>and taking into consideration their constancy and fidelity towards us and towards our ancestors, we have, as we ought, acquitted them of every sort of charge. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.008","3MA","7","M37_8","<span class='v M37_8' data-id='M37_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>We have dismissed them to their several homes, telling all men everywhere to do them no wrong, or unrighteously revile them about the past. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.009","3MA","7","M37_9","<span class='v M37_9' data-id='M37_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.010","3MA","7","M37_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v M37_10' data-id='M37_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.011","3MA","7","M37_11","<span class='v M37_11' data-id='M37_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.013","3MA","7","M37_13","<span class='v M37_13' data-id='M37_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>Their priests, then, as it was appropriate, saluted him with good wishes, and all the people echoed with the “Hallelujah!” Then they joyfully departed. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.014","3MA","7","M37_14","<span class='v M37_14' data-id='M37_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then they punished and shamefully destroyed every polluted Jew that fell in their way, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.018","3MA","7","M37_18","<span class='v M37_18' data-id='M37_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>they partook of a banquet of deliverance, for the king generously granted them all the means of securing a return home. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("057.007.020","3MA","7","M37_20","<span class='v M37_20' data-id='M37_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.001","2ES","1","E21_1","</div><div class='c'>1</div><div class='p'><span class='v E21_1' data-id='E21_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.019","2ES","1","E21_19","<span class='v E21_19' data-id='E21_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>I had pity on your mourning and gave you manna for food. You ate angels’ bread. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.020","2ES","1","E21_20","<span class='v E21_20' data-id='E21_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.021","2ES","1","E21_21","<span class='v E21_21' data-id='E21_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>I divided fruitful lands amongst you. I drove out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines before you. What more shall I do for you?” says the Lord. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.024","2ES","1","E21_24","<span class='v E21_24' data-id='E21_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.025","2ES","1","E21_25","<span class='v E21_25' data-id='E21_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.026","2ES","1","E21_26","<span class='v E21_26' data-id='E21_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.027","2ES","1","E21_27","<span class='v E21_27' data-id='E21_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>It is not as though you have forsaken me, but your own selves,” says the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.028","2ES","1","E21_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E21_28' data-id='E21_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.029","2ES","1","E21_29","<span class='v E21_29' data-id='E21_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>that you would be my people, and I would be your God, that you would be my children, and I would be your father? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.030","2ES","1","E21_30","<span class='v E21_30' data-id='E21_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.031","2ES","1","E21_31","<span class='v E21_31' data-id='E21_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.032","2ES","1","E21_32","<span class='v E21_32' data-id='E21_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.033","2ES","1","E21_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E21_33' data-id='E21_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>The Lord Almighty says, “Your house is desolate. I will cast you out as the wind blows stubble. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.036","2ES","1","E21_36","<span class='v E21_36' data-id='E21_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>They have seen no prophets, yet they will remember their former condition. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.037","2ES","1","E21_37","<span class='v E21_37' data-id='E21_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.038","2ES","1","E21_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E21_38' data-id='E21_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>And now, father, behold with glory, and see the people that come from the east: </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.001.039","2ES","1","E21_39","<span class='v E21_39' data-id='E21_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>to whom I will give for leaders, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Oseas, Amos, and Micheas, Joel, Abdias, and Jonas, </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.002","2ES","2","E22_2","<span class='v E22_2' data-id='E22_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>The mother who bore them says to them, ‘Go your way, my children, for I am a widow and forsaken. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.004","2ES","2","E22_4","<span class='v E22_4' data-id='E22_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.005","2ES","2","E22_5","<span class='v E22_5' data-id='E22_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.006","2ES","2","E22_6","<span class='v E22_6' data-id='E22_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>that you may bring them to confusion, and their mother to ruin, that they may have no offspring. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.007","2ES","2","E22_7","<span class='v E22_7' data-id='E22_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Let them be scattered abroad amongst the heathen. Let their names be blotted out of the earth, for they have despised my covenant. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.008","2ES","2","E22_8","<span class='v E22_8' data-id='E22_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Woe to you, Assur, you who hide the unrighteous with you! You wicked nation, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.009","2ES","2","E22_9","<span class='v E22_9' data-id='E22_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.010","2ES","2","E22_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_10' data-id='E22_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>The Lord says to Esdras, “Tell my people that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.012","2ES","2","E22_12","<span class='v E22_12' data-id='E22_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>They will have the tree of life for fragrant perfume. They will neither labour nor be weary. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.013","2ES","2","E22_13","<span class='v E22_13' data-id='E22_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.014","2ES","2","E22_14","<span class='v E22_14' data-id='E22_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.015","2ES","2","E22_15","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_15' data-id='E22_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>“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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.016","2ES","2","E22_16","<span class='v E22_16' data-id='E22_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>I will raise those who are dead up again from their places, and bring them out from their tombs, for I recognise my name in them. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.018","2ES","2","E22_18","<span class='v E22_18' data-id='E22_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.019","2ES","2","E22_19","<span class='v E22_19' data-id='E22_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.025","2ES","2","E22_25","<span class='v E22_25' data-id='E22_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Nourish your children, good nurse, and establish their feet. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.026","2ES","2","E22_26","<span class='v E22_26' data-id='E22_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>As for the servants whom I have given you, not one of them will perish, for I will require them from amongst your number. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.027","2ES","2","E22_27","<span class='v E22_27' data-id='E22_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.028","2ES","2","E22_28","<span class='v E22_28' data-id='E22_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>The nations will envy you, but they will be able to do nothing against you, says the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.029","2ES","2","E22_29","<span class='v E22_29' data-id='E22_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>My hands will cover you, so that your children don’t see Gehenna.<span class='note' id='footnote-1293'><a href='#note-1293' class='key'>*</a></span> </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.031","2ES","2","E22_31","<span class='v E22_31' data-id='E22_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.032","2ES","2","E22_32","<span class='v E22_32' data-id='E22_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Embrace your children until I come, and proclaim mercy to them, for my wells run over, and my grace won’t fail.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.033","2ES","2","E22_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_33' data-id='E22_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.034","2ES","2","E22_34","<span class='v E22_34' data-id='E22_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>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. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.036","2ES","2","E22_36","<span class='v E22_36' data-id='E22_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joy of your glory. I call to witness my saviour openly. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.039","2ES","2","E22_39","<span class='v E22_39' data-id='E22_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Those who withdrew themselves from the shadow of the world have received glorious garments from the Lord. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.040","2ES","2","E22_40","<span class='v E22_40' data-id='E22_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.041","2ES","2","E22_41","<span class='v E22_41' data-id='E22_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.042","2ES","2","E22_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_42' data-id='E22_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>I, Esdras, saw upon Mount Zion a great multitude, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.044","2ES","2","E22_44","<span class='v E22_44' data-id='E22_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>So I asked the angel, and said, “What are these, my Lord?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.045","2ES","2","E22_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_45' data-id='E22_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.002.048","2ES","2","E22_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E22_48' data-id='E22_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.001","2ES","3","E23_1","<div class='c'>3</div><div class='p'><span class='v E23_1' data-id='E23_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>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, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.002","2ES","3","E23_2","<span class='v E23_2' data-id='E23_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>for I saw the desolation of Zion and the wealth of those who lived at Babylon. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.003","2ES","3","E23_3","<span class='v E23_3' data-id='E23_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>My spirit was very agitated, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the Most High, and said, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.004","2ES","3","E23_4","<span class='v E23_4' data-id='E23_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>“O sovereign Lord, didn’t you speak at the beginning when you formed the earth—and that yourself alone—and commanded the dust </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.005","2ES","3","E23_5","<span class='v E23_5' data-id='E23_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.006","2ES","3","E23_6","<span class='v E23_6' data-id='E23_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>You led him into the garden which your right hand planted before the earth appeared. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.007","2ES","3","E23_7","<span class='v E23_7' data-id='E23_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.008","2ES","3","E23_8","<span class='v E23_8' data-id='E23_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>Every nation walked after their own will, did ungodly things in your sight, and despised your commandments, and you didn’t hinder them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.009","2ES","3","E23_9","<span class='v E23_9' data-id='E23_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>Nevertheless, again in process of time, you brought the flood on those who lived in the world and destroyed them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.010","2ES","3","E23_10","<span class='v E23_10' data-id='E23_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>It came to pass that the same thing happened to them. Just as death came to Adam, so was the flood to these. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.011","2ES","3","E23_11","<span class='v E23_11' data-id='E23_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Nevertheless, you left one of them, Noah with his household, and all the righteous men who descended from him. </span>");
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INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.014","2ES","3","E23_14","<span class='v E23_14' data-id='E23_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>You loved, and to him only you showed the end of the times secretly by night, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.015","2ES","3","E23_15","<span class='v E23_15' data-id='E23_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.016","2ES","3","E23_16","<span class='v E23_16' data-id='E23_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>You set apart Jacob for yourself, but rejected Esau. Jacob became a great multitude. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.017","2ES","3","E23_17","<span class='v E23_17' data-id='E23_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>It came to pass that when you led his descendants out of Egypt, you brought them up to Mount Sinai. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.018","2ES","3","E23_18","<span class='v E23_18' data-id='E23_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>You bowed the heavens also, shook the earth, moved the whole world, made the depths tremble, and troubled the age. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.019","2ES","3","E23_19","<span class='v E23_19' data-id='E23_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.020","2ES","3","E23_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E23_20' data-id='E23_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>“Yet you didn’t take away from them their wicked heart, that your law might produce fruit in them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.021","2ES","3","E23_21","<span class='v E23_21' data-id='E23_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>For the first Adam, burdened with a wicked heart transgressed and was overcome, as were all who are descended from him. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.022","2ES","3","E23_22","<span class='v E23_22' data-id='E23_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.023","2ES","3","E23_23","<span class='v E23_23' data-id='E23_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>So the times passed away, and the years were brought to an end. Then you raised up a servant, called David, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.024","2ES","3","E23_24","<span class='v E23_24' data-id='E23_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>whom you commanded to build a city to your name, and to offer burnt offerings to you in it from what is yours. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.025","2ES","3","E23_25","<span class='v E23_25' data-id='E23_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>When this was done many years, then those who inhabited the city did evil, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.026","2ES","3","E23_26","<span class='v E23_26' data-id='E23_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>in all things doing as Adam and all his generations had done, for they also had a wicked heart. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.027","2ES","3","E23_27","<span class='v E23_27' data-id='E23_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>So you gave your city over into the hands of your enemies. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.028","2ES","3","E23_28","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E23_28' data-id='E23_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>“Then I said in my heart, ‘Are their deeds of those who inhabit Babylon any better? Is that why it gained dominion over Zion?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.029","2ES","3","E23_29","<span class='v E23_29' data-id='E23_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.030","2ES","3","E23_30","<span class='v E23_30' data-id='E23_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.031","2ES","3","E23_31","<span class='v E23_31' data-id='E23_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>and you have not shown how your way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Zion? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.032","2ES","3","E23_32","<span class='v E23_32' data-id='E23_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>Or is there any other nation that knows you beside Israel? Or what tribes have so believed your covenants as these tribes of Jacob? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.033","2ES","3","E23_33","<span class='v E23_33' data-id='E23_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Yet their reward doesn’t appear, and their labour 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.034","2ES","3","E23_34","<span class='v E23_34' data-id='E23_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.035","2ES","3","E23_35","<span class='v E23_35' data-id='E23_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>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? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.003.036","2ES","3","E23_36","<span class='v E23_36' data-id='E23_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>You will find some men by name who have kept your precepts, but you won’t find nations.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.001","2ES","4","E24_1","<div class='c'>4</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_1' data-id='E24_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>The angel who was sent to me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.002","2ES","4","E24_2","<span class='v E24_2' data-id='E24_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>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?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.003","2ES","4","E24_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_3' data-id='E24_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>Then I said, “Yes, my Lord.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_3' data-id='E24_3'>He answered me, “I have been sent to show you three ways, and to set before you three problems. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.004","2ES","4","E24_4","<span class='v E24_4' data-id='E24_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.005","2ES","4","E24_5","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_5' data-id='E24_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>I said, “Say on, my Lord.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_5' data-id='E24_5'>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.006","2ES","4","E24_6","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_6' data-id='E24_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Then answered I and said, “Who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me about such things?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.007","2ES","4","E24_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_7' data-id='E24_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>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 <span class='note' id='footnote-1294'><a href='#note-1294' class='key'>*</a></span>of hell? Or which are the entrances of paradise?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.008","2ES","4","E24_8","<span class='v E24_8' data-id='E24_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.009","2ES","4","E24_9","<span class='v E24_9' data-id='E24_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.010","2ES","4","E24_10","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_10' data-id='E24_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>He said moreover to me, “You can’t understand your own things that you grew up with. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.011","2ES","4","E24_11","<span class='v E24_11' data-id='E24_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>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?” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_11' data-id='E24_11'><span class='note' id='footnote-1295'><a href='#note-1295' class='key'>†</a></span>When I heard these things, I fell on my face </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.012","2ES","4","E24_12","<span class='v E24_12' data-id='E24_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span> 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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.013","2ES","4","E24_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_13' data-id='E24_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>He answered me, and said, <span class='note' id='footnote-1296'><a href='#note-1296' class='key'>‡</a></span>“A forest of the trees of the field went out, and took counsel together, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.014","2ES","4","E24_14","<span class='v E24_14' data-id='E24_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>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.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.015","2ES","4","E24_15","<span class='v E24_15' data-id='E24_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>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.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.016","2ES","4","E24_16","<span class='v E24_16' data-id='E24_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>The counsel of the wood was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.017","2ES","4","E24_17","<span class='v E24_17' data-id='E24_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Likewise also the counsel of the waves of the sea, for the sand stood up and stopped them. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.018","2ES","4","E24_18","<span class='v E24_18' data-id='E24_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>If you were judge now between these two, which would you justify, or which would you condemn?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.019","2ES","4","E24_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_19' data-id='E24_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.020","2ES","4","E24_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_20' data-id='E24_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>Then answered he me, and said, “You have given a right judgement. Why don’t you judge your own case? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.021","2ES","4","E24_21","<span class='v E24_21' data-id='E24_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.022","2ES","4","E24_22","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_22' data-id='E24_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Then answered I and said, “I beg you, O Lord, why has the power of understanding been given to me? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.023","2ES","4","E24_23","<span class='v E24_23' data-id='E24_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.024","2ES","4","E24_24","<span class='v E24_24' data-id='E24_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>We pass away out of the world like locusts. Our life is like a vapour, and we aren’t worthy to obtain mercy. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.025","2ES","4","E24_25","<span class='v E24_25' data-id='E24_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>What will he then do for his name by which we are called? I have asked about these things.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.026","2ES","4","E24_26","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_26' data-id='E24_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.027","2ES","4","E24_27","<span class='v E24_27' data-id='E24_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.028","2ES","4","E24_28","<span class='v E24_28' data-id='E24_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>For the evil<span class='note' id='footnote-1297'><a href='#note-1297' class='key'>§</a></span> about which you asked me has been sown, but its harvest hasn’t yet come. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.029","2ES","4","E24_29","<span class='v E24_29' data-id='E24_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.030","2ES","4","E24_30","<span class='v E24_30' data-id='E24_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>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! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.031","2ES","4","E24_31","<span class='v E24_31' data-id='E24_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Ponder now by yourself, how much fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has produced. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.032","2ES","4","E24_32","<span class='v E24_32' data-id='E24_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>When the grains which are without number are sown, how great a threshing floor they will fill!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.033","2ES","4","E24_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_33' data-id='E24_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Then I answered and said, <span class='note' id='footnote-1298'><a href='#note-1298' class='key'>*</a></span>“How long? When will these things come to pass? Why are our years few and evil?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.034","2ES","4","E24_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_34' data-id='E24_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>He answered me, and said, “Don’t hurry faster than the Most High; for your haste is<span class='note' id='footnote-1299'><a href='#note-1299' class='key'>†</a></span> for your own self, but he who is above hurries on behalf of many. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.035","2ES","4","E24_35","<span class='v E24_35' data-id='E24_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>Didn’t the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, ‘How long <span class='note' id='footnote-1300'><a href='#note-1300' class='key'>‡</a></span>will we be here? When does the fruit of the threshing floor come?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.036","2ES","4","E24_36","<span class='v E24_36' data-id='E24_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.037","2ES","4","E24_37","<span class='v E24_37' data-id='E24_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>By measure, he has measured the times. By number, he has counted the seasons. He won’t <span class='note' id='footnote-1301'><a href='#note-1301' class='key'>§</a></span>move or stir them until that measure is fulfilled.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.038","2ES","4","E24_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_38' data-id='E24_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>Then I answered, “O sovereign Lord, all of us are full of ungodiness. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.039","2ES","4","E24_39","<span class='v E24_39' data-id='E24_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.040","2ES","4","E24_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_40' data-id='E24_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.041","2ES","4","E24_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_41' data-id='E24_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>Then I said, “No, Lord, that can it not.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_41' data-id='E24_41'>He said to me, “In Hades, the chambers of souls are like the womb. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.042","2ES","4","E24_42","<span class='v E24_42' data-id='E24_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>For just like a woman in labour hurries to escape the anguish of the labour pains, even so these places hurry to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.043","2ES","4","E24_43","<span class='v E24_43' data-id='E24_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>Then you will be shown those things which you desire to see.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.044","2ES","4","E24_44","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_44' data-id='E24_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Then I answered, “If I have found favour in your sight, and if it is possible, and if I am worthy, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.045","2ES","4","E24_45","<span class='v E24_45' data-id='E24_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>show me this also, whether there is more to come than is past, or whether the greater part has gone over us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.046","2ES","4","E24_46","<span class='v E24_46' data-id='E24_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>For what is gone I know, but I don’t know what is to come.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.047","2ES","4","E24_47","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_47' data-id='E24_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>He said to me, “Stand up on my right side, and I will explain the parable to you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.048","2ES","4","E24_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_48' data-id='E24_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.049","2ES","4","E24_49","<span class='v E24_49' data-id='E24_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.050","2ES","4","E24_50","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_50' data-id='E24_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.051","2ES","4","E24_51","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_51' data-id='E24_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>Then I prayed, and said, “Do you think that I will live until that time? Or who will be alive in those days?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.004.052","2ES","4","E24_52","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E24_52' data-id='E24_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.001","2ES","5","E25_1","<div class='c'>5</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_1' data-id='E25_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>“Nevertheless, concerning the signs, behold, the days will come when those who dwell on earth will be taken <span class='note' id='footnote-1302'><a href='#note-1302' class='key'>*</a></span>with great amazement, and the way of truth will be hidden, and the land will be barren of faith. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.002","2ES","5","E25_2","<span class='v E25_2' data-id='E25_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>Iniquity will be increased above what now you see, and beyond what you have heard long ago. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.003","2ES","5","E25_3","<span class='v E25_3' data-id='E25_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>The land that you now see ruling will be a trackless waste, and men will see it desolate. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.004","2ES","5","E25_4","<span class='v E25_4' data-id='E25_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.005","2ES","5","E25_5","<span class='v E25_5' data-id='E25_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Blood will drop out of wood, and the stone will utter its voice. The peoples will be troubled, and the stars will fall. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.006","2ES","5","E25_6","<span class='v E25_6' data-id='E25_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>He will rule whom those who dwell on the earth don’t expect, and the birds will fly away together. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.007","2ES","5","E25_7","<span class='v E25_7' data-id='E25_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.008","2ES","5","E25_8","<span class='v E25_8' data-id='E25_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.009","2ES","5","E25_9","<span class='v E25_9' data-id='E25_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.010","2ES","5","E25_10","<span class='v E25_10' data-id='E25_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span>It will be sought by many, and won’t be found. Unrighteousness and lack of restraint will be multiplied on earth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.011","2ES","5","E25_11","<span class='v E25_11' data-id='E25_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>One country will ask another, ‘Has righteousness, or a man that does righteousness, gone through you?’ And it will say, ‘No.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.012","2ES","5","E25_12","<span class='v E25_12' data-id='E25_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>It will come to pass at that time that men will hope, but won’t obtain. They will labour, but their ways won’t prosper. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.013","2ES","5","E25_13","<span class='v E25_13' data-id='E25_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.014","2ES","5","E25_14","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_14' data-id='E25_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>Then I woke up, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was so troubled that it fainted. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.015","2ES","5","E25_15","<span class='v E25_15' data-id='E25_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>So the angel who had come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me on my feet. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.016","2ES","5","E25_16","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_16' data-id='E25_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>In the second night, it came to pass that <span class='note' id='footnote-1303'><a href='#note-1303' class='key'>†</a></span>Phaltiel the captain of the people came to me, saying, “Where have you been? Why is your face sad? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.017","2ES","5","E25_17","<span class='v E25_17' data-id='E25_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>Or don’t you know that Israel is committed to you in the land of their captivity? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.018","2ES","5","E25_18","<span class='v E25_18' data-id='E25_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.019","2ES","5","E25_19","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_19' data-id='E25_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.020","2ES","5","E25_20","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_20' data-id='E25_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>So I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like Uriel the angel had commanded me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.021","2ES","5","E25_21","<span class='v E25_21' data-id='E25_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>After seven days, the thoughts of my heart were very grievous to me again, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.022","2ES","5","E25_22","<span class='v E25_22' data-id='E25_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to speak words before the Most High again. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.023","2ES","5","E25_23","<span class='v E25_23' data-id='E25_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.024","2ES","5","E25_24","<span class='v E25_24' data-id='E25_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>Of all the lands of the world you have chosen one <span class='note' id='footnote-1304'><a href='#note-1304' class='key'>‡</a></span>country for yourself. Of all the flowers of the world, you have chosen one lily for yourself. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.025","2ES","5","E25_25","<span class='v E25_25' data-id='E25_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>Of all the depths of the sea, you have filled one river for yourself. Of all built cities, you have consecrated Zion for yourself. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.026","2ES","5","E25_26","<span class='v E25_26' data-id='E25_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.027","2ES","5","E25_27","<span class='v E25_27' data-id='E25_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>Amongst 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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.028","2ES","5","E25_28","<span class='v E25_28' data-id='E25_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Now, O Lord, why have you given this one people over to many, and <span class='note' id='footnote-1305'><a href='#note-1305' class='key'>§</a></span>have dishonoured the one root above others, and have scattered your only one amongst many? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.029","2ES","5","E25_29","<span class='v E25_29' data-id='E25_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>Those who opposed your promises have trampled down those who believed your covenants. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.030","2ES","5","E25_30","<span class='v E25_30' data-id='E25_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>If you really do hate your people so much, they should be punished with your own hands.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.031","2ES","5","E25_31","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_31' data-id='E25_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night before was sent to me, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.032","2ES","5","E25_32","<span class='v E25_32' data-id='E25_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>and said to me, “Hear me, and I will instruct you. Listen to me, and I will tell you more.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.033","2ES","5","E25_33","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_33' data-id='E25_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>I said, “Speak on, my Lord.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_33' data-id='E25_33'>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?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.034","2ES","5","E25_34","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_34' data-id='E25_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>I said, “No, Lord; but I have spoken out of grief; for my heart is in agony every hour while I labour to comprehend the way of the Most High, and to seek out part of his judgement.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.035","2ES","5","E25_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_35' data-id='E25_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>He said to me, “You can’t.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_35' data-id='E25_35'>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?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.036","2ES","5","E25_36","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_36' data-id='E25_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>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. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.037","2ES","5","E25_37","<span class='v E25_37' data-id='E25_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.038","2ES","5","E25_38","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_38' data-id='E25_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>And I said, “O sovereign Lord, who may know these things except he who doesn’t have his dwelling with men? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.039","2ES","5","E25_39","<span class='v E25_39' data-id='E25_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>As for me, I lack wisdom. How can I then speak of these things you asked me about?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.040","2ES","5","E25_40","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_40' data-id='E25_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>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 judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.041","2ES","5","E25_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_41' data-id='E25_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>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?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.042","2ES","5","E25_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_42' data-id='E25_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>He said to me, “I will compare my judgement 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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.043","2ES","5","E25_43","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_43' data-id='E25_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>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 judgement sooner?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.044","2ES","5","E25_44","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_44' data-id='E25_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.045","2ES","5","E25_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_45' data-id='E25_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>And I said, “How have you said to your servant, that <span class='note' id='footnote-1306'><a href='#note-1306' class='key'>*</a></span>you will surely make alive at once the creature that you have created? <span class='note' id='footnote-1307'><a href='#note-1307' class='key'>†</a></span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.046","2ES","5","E25_46","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_46' data-id='E25_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>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.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.047","2ES","5","E25_47","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_47' data-id='E25_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>I said, “She can’t, but must do it each in their own time.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.048","2ES","5","E25_48","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_48' data-id='E25_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>Then said he to me, “Even so, I have given the womb of the earth to those who are sown in it in their own times. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.049","2ES","5","E25_49","<span class='v E25_49' data-id='E25_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, even so have I organised the world which I created.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.050","2ES","5","E25_50","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_50' data-id='E25_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>I asked, “Seeing that you have now shown me the way, I will speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you have told me, still young? Or does she now draw near to old age?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.051","2ES","5","E25_51","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_51' data-id='E25_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>He answered me, “Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.052","2ES","5","E25_52","<span class='v E25_52' data-id='E25_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>Say to her, ‘Why aren’t they whom you have now brought forth like those who were before, but smaller in stature?’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.053","2ES","5","E25_53","<span class='v E25_53' data-id='E25_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>She also will answer you, ‘Those who are born in the strength of youth are different from those who are born in the time of old age, when the womb fails.’ </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.054","2ES","5","E25_54","<span class='v E25_54' data-id='E25_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Consider therefore you also, how you are shorter than those who were before you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.055","2ES","5","E25_55","<span class='v E25_55' data-id='E25_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>So are those who come after you smaller than you, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.005.056","2ES","5","E25_56","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E25_56' data-id='E25_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>Then I said, “Lord, I implore you, if I have found favour in your sight, show your servant by whom you visit your creation.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.001","2ES","6","E26_1","<div class='c'>6</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_1' data-id='E26_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>He said to me, “In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the portals of the world were fixed and before the gatherings of the winds blew, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.002","2ES","6","E26_2","<span class='v E26_2' data-id='E26_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>before the voices of the thunder sounded and before the flashes of the lightning shone, before the foundations of paradise were laid, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.003","2ES","6","E26_3","<span class='v E26_3' data-id='E26_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>before the fair flowers were seen, before the powers of the earthquake were established, before the innumerable army of angels were gathered together, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.004","2ES","6","E26_4","<span class='v E26_4' data-id='E26_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>before the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, before the footstool of Zion <span class='note' id='footnote-1308'><a href='#note-1308' class='key'>*</a></span>was established, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.005","2ES","6","E26_5","<span class='v E26_5' data-id='E26_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>before the present years were reckoned, before the imaginations of those who now sin were estranged, and before they were sealed who have gathered faith for a treasure— </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.006","2ES","6","E26_6","<span class='v E26_6' data-id='E26_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>then I considered these things, and they all were made through me alone, and not through another; just as by me also they will be ended, and not by another.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.007","2ES","6","E26_7","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_7' data-id='E26_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>Then I answered, “What will be the dividing of the times? Or when will be the end of the first and the beginning of the age that follows?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.008","2ES","6","E26_8","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_8' data-id='E26_8'><span class='v-num v-8'>8&#160;</span>He said to me, “From Abraham to Isaac, because Jacob and Esau were born to him, for Jacob’s hand held Esau’s heel from the beginning. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.009","2ES","6","E26_9","<span class='v E26_9' data-id='E26_9'><span class='v-num v-9'>9&#160;</span>For Esau is the end of this age, and Jacob is the beginning of the one that follows. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.010","2ES","6","E26_10","<span class='v E26_10' data-id='E26_10'><span class='v-num v-10'>10&#160;</span> <span class='note' id='footnote-1309'><a href='#note-1309' class='key'>†</a></span>The beginning of a man is his hand, and the end of a man is his heel. Seek nothing else between the heel and the hand, Esdras!” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.011","2ES","6","E26_11","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_11' data-id='E26_11'><span class='v-num v-11'>11&#160;</span>Then I answered, “O sovereign Lord, if I have found favour in your sight, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.012","2ES","6","E26_12","<span class='v E26_12' data-id='E26_12'><span class='v-num v-12'>12&#160;</span>I beg you, show your servant the end of your signs which you showed me part on a previous night.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.013","2ES","6","E26_13","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_13' data-id='E26_13'><span class='v-num v-13'>13&#160;</span>So he answered, “Stand up upon your feet, and you will hear a mighty sounding voice. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.014","2ES","6","E26_14","<span class='v E26_14' data-id='E26_14'><span class='v-num v-14'>14&#160;</span>If the place you stand on is greatly moved </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.015","2ES","6","E26_15","<span class='v E26_15' data-id='E26_15'><span class='v-num v-15'>15&#160;</span>when it speaks don’t be afraid, for the word is of the end, and the foundations of the earth will understand </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.016","2ES","6","E26_16","<span class='v E26_16' data-id='E26_16'><span class='v-num v-16'>16&#160;</span>that the speech is about them. They will tremble and be moved, for they know that their end must be changed.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.017","2ES","6","E26_17","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_17' data-id='E26_17'><span class='v-num v-17'>17&#160;</span>It happened that when I had heard it, I stood up on my feet, and listened, and, behold, there was a voice that spoke, and its sound was like the sound of many waters. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.018","2ES","6","E26_18","<span class='v E26_18' data-id='E26_18'><span class='v-num v-18'>18&#160;</span>It said, “Behold, the days come when I draw near to visit those who dwell upon the earth, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.019","2ES","6","E26_19","<span class='v E26_19' data-id='E26_19'><span class='v-num v-19'>19&#160;</span>and when I investigate those who have caused harm unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Zion is complete, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.020","2ES","6","E26_20","<span class='v E26_20' data-id='E26_20'><span class='v-num v-20'>20&#160;</span>and when the seal will be set on the age that is to pass away, then I will show these signs: the books will be opened before the firmament, and all will see together. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.021","2ES","6","E26_21","<span class='v E26_21' data-id='E26_21'><span class='v-num v-21'>21&#160;</span>The children a year old will speak with their voices. The women with child will deliver premature children at three or four months, and they will live and dance. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.022","2ES","6","E26_22","<span class='v E26_22' data-id='E26_22'><span class='v-num v-22'>22&#160;</span>Suddenly the sown places will appear unsown. The full storehouses will suddenly be found empty. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.023","2ES","6","E26_23","<span class='v E26_23' data-id='E26_23'><span class='v-num v-23'>23&#160;</span>The trumpet will give a sound which when every man hears, they will suddenly be afraid. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.024","2ES","6","E26_24","<span class='v E26_24' data-id='E26_24'><span class='v-num v-24'>24&#160;</span>At that time friends will make war against one another like enemies. The earth will stand in fear with those who dwell in it. The springs of the fountains will stand still, so that for three hours they won’t flow. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.025","2ES","6","E26_25","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_25' data-id='E26_25'><span class='v-num v-25'>25&#160;</span>“It will be that whoever remains after all these things that I have told you of, he will be saved and will see my salvation, and the end of my world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.026","2ES","6","E26_26","<span class='v E26_26' data-id='E26_26'><span class='v-num v-26'>26&#160;</span>They will see the men who have been taken up, who have not tasted death from their birth. The heart of the inhabitants will be changed and turned into a different spirit. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.027","2ES","6","E26_27","<span class='v E26_27' data-id='E26_27'><span class='v-num v-27'>27&#160;</span>For evil will be blotted out and deceit will be quenched. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.028","2ES","6","E26_28","<span class='v E26_28' data-id='E26_28'><span class='v-num v-28'>28&#160;</span>Faith will flourish. Corruption will be overcome, and the truth, which has been so long without fruit, will be declared.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.029","2ES","6","E26_29","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_29' data-id='E26_29'><span class='v-num v-29'>29&#160;</span>When he talked with me, behold, little by little, the place I stood on <span class='note' id='footnote-1310'><a href='#note-1310' class='key'>‡</a></span>rocked back and forth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.030","2ES","6","E26_30","<span class='v E26_30' data-id='E26_30'><span class='v-num v-30'>30&#160;</span>He said to me, “I came to show you these things <span class='note' id='footnote-1311'><a href='#note-1311' class='key'>§</a></span>tonight. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.031","2ES","6","E26_31","<span class='v E26_31' data-id='E26_31'><span class='v-num v-31'>31&#160;</span>If therefore you will pray yet again, and fast seven more days, I will <span class='note' id='footnote-1312'><a href='#note-1312' class='key'>*</a></span>again tell you greater things than these. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.032","2ES","6","E26_32","<span class='v E26_32' data-id='E26_32'><span class='v-num v-32'>32&#160;</span>For your voice has surely been heard before the Most High. For the Mighty has seen your righteousness. He has also seen your purity, which you have maintained ever since your youth. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.033","2ES","6","E26_33","<span class='v E26_33' data-id='E26_33'><span class='v-num v-33'>33&#160;</span>Therefore he has sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you, ‘Believe, and don’t be afraid! </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.034","2ES","6","E26_34","<span class='v E26_34' data-id='E26_34'><span class='v-num v-34'>34&#160;</span>Don’t be hasty to think vain things about the former times, that you may not hasten in the latter times.’ ” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.035","2ES","6","E26_35","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_35' data-id='E26_35'><span class='v-num v-35'>35&#160;</span>It came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfil the three weeks which he told me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.036","2ES","6","E26_36","<span class='v E26_36' data-id='E26_36'><span class='v-num v-36'>36&#160;</span>On the eighth night, my heart was troubled within me again, and I began to speak in the presence of the Most High. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.037","2ES","6","E26_37","<span class='v E26_37' data-id='E26_37'><span class='v-num v-37'>37&#160;</span>For my spirit was greatly aroused, and my soul was in distress. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.038","2ES","6","E26_38","<span class='v E26_38' data-id='E26_38'><span class='v-num v-38'>38&#160;</span>I said, “O Lord, truly you spoke at the beginning of the creation, on the first day, and said this: ‘Let heaven and earth be made,’ and your word perfected the work. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.039","2ES","6","E26_39","<span class='v E26_39' data-id='E26_39'><span class='v-num v-39'>39&#160;</span>Then the spirit was hovering, and darkness and silence were on every side. The sound of man’s voice was not yet there.<span class='note' id='footnote-1313'><a href='#note-1313' class='key'>†</a></span> </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.040","2ES","6","E26_40","<span class='v E26_40' data-id='E26_40'><span class='v-num v-40'>40&#160;</span>Then you commanded a ray of light to be brought out of your treasuries, that your works might then appear. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.041","2ES","6","E26_41","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_41' data-id='E26_41'><span class='v-num v-41'>41&#160;</span>“On the second day, again you made the spirit of the firmament and commanded it to divide and to separate the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.042","2ES","6","E26_42","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_42' data-id='E26_42'><span class='v-num v-42'>42&#160;</span>“On the third day, you commanded that the waters should be gathered together in the seventh part of the earth. You dried up six parts and kept them, to the intent that of these some being both planted and tilled might serve before you. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.043","2ES","6","E26_43","<span class='v E26_43' data-id='E26_43'><span class='v-num v-43'>43&#160;</span>For as soon as your word went out, the work was done. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.044","2ES","6","E26_44","<span class='v E26_44' data-id='E26_44'><span class='v-num v-44'>44&#160;</span>Immediately, great and innumerable fruit grew, with many pleasant tastes, and flowers of inimitable colour, and fragrances of most exquisite smell. This was done the third day. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.045","2ES","6","E26_45","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_45' data-id='E26_45'><span class='v-num v-45'>45&#160;</span>“On the fourth day, you commanded that the sun should shine, the moon give its light, and the stars should be in their order; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.046","2ES","6","E26_46","<span class='v E26_46' data-id='E26_46'><span class='v-num v-46'>46&#160;</span>and gave them a command to serve mankind, who was to be made. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.047","2ES","6","E26_47","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_47' data-id='E26_47'><span class='v-num v-47'>47&#160;</span>“On the fifth day, you said to the seventh part, where the water was gathered together, that it should produce living creatures, fowls and fishes; and so it came to pass </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.048","2ES","6","E26_48","<span class='v E26_48' data-id='E26_48'><span class='v-num v-48'>48&#160;</span>that the mute and lifeless water produced living things as it was told, that the nations might therefore praise your wondrous works. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.049","2ES","6","E26_49","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_49' data-id='E26_49'><span class='v-num v-49'>49&#160;</span>“Then you preserved two living creatures. The one you called Behemoth, and the other you called Leviathan. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.050","2ES","6","E26_50","<span class='v E26_50' data-id='E26_50'><span class='v-num v-50'>50&#160;</span>You separated the one from the other; for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.051","2ES","6","E26_51","<span class='v E26_51' data-id='E26_51'><span class='v-num v-51'>51&#160;</span>To Behemoth, you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, in which are a thousand hills; </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.052","2ES","6","E26_52","<span class='v E26_52' data-id='E26_52'><span class='v-num v-52'>52&#160;</span>but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the watery part. You have kept them to be devoured by whom you wish, when you wish. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.053","2ES","6","E26_53","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_53' data-id='E26_53'><span class='v-num v-53'>53&#160;</span>“But on the sixth day, you commanded the earth to produce before you cattle, animals, and creeping things. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.054","2ES","6","E26_54","<span class='v E26_54' data-id='E26_54'><span class='v-num v-54'>54&#160;</span>Over these, you ordained Adam as ruler over all the works that you have made. Of him came all of us, the people whom you have chosen. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.055","2ES","6","E26_55","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E26_55' data-id='E26_55'><span class='v-num v-55'>55&#160;</span>“All this have I spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that for our sakes you made <span class='note' id='footnote-1314'><a href='#note-1314' class='key'>‡</a></span>this world. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.056","2ES","6","E26_56","<span class='v E26_56' data-id='E26_56'><span class='v-num v-56'>56&#160;</span>As for the other nations, which also come from Adam, you have said that they are nothing, and are like spittle. You have likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a bucket. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.057","2ES","6","E26_57","<span class='v E26_57' data-id='E26_57'><span class='v-num v-57'>57&#160;</span>Now, O Lord, behold these nations, which are reputed as nothing, being rulers over us and devouring us. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.058","2ES","6","E26_58","<span class='v E26_58' data-id='E26_58'><span class='v-num v-58'>58&#160;</span>But we your people, whom you have called your firstborn, your only children, and your fervent lover, are given into their hands. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.006.059","2ES","6","E26_59","<span class='v E26_59' data-id='E26_59'><span class='v-num v-59'>59&#160;</span>Now if the world is made for our sakes, why don’t we possess our world for an inheritance? How long will this endure?” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.001","2ES","7","E27_1","<div class='c'>7</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_1' data-id='E27_1'><span class='verse1 v-num v-1'>1&#160;</span>When I had finished speaking these words, the angel which had been sent to me the nights before was sent to me. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.002","2ES","7","E27_2","<span class='v E27_2' data-id='E27_2'><span class='v-num v-2'>2&#160;</span>He said to me, “Rise, Esdras, and hear the words that I have come to tell you.” </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.003","2ES","7","E27_3","</div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_3' data-id='E27_3'><span class='v-num v-3'>3&#160;</span>I said, “Speak on, my Lord.” </span></div><div class='p'><span class='v E27_3' data-id='E27_3'>Then he said to me, “There is a sea set in a wide place, that it might be <span class='note' id='footnote-1315'><a href='#note-1315' class='key'>*</a></span>broad and vast, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.004","2ES","7","E27_4","<span class='v E27_4' data-id='E27_4'><span class='v-num v-4'>4&#160;</span>but its entrance is set in a narrow place so as to be like a river. </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.005","2ES","7","E27_5","<span class='v E27_5' data-id='E27_5'><span class='v-num v-5'>5&#160;</span>Whoever desires to go into the sea to look at it, or to rule it, if he didn’t go through the narrow entrance, how could he come into the broad part? </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.006","2ES","7","E27_6","<span class='v E27_6' data-id='E27_6'><span class='v-num v-6'>6&#160;</span>Another thing also: There is a city built and set in a plain country, and full of all good things, </span>");
INSERT INTO WorldEnglishBible_Britishedition__isvl VALUES ("058.007.007","2ES","7","E27_7","<span class='v E27_7' data-id='E27_7'><span class='v-num v-7'>7&#160;</span>but its entrance is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, having fire on the right hand, and deep water on the left. </span>");
