Verse 41
1 Esdras 1:41
Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
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And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and carried him unto Babylon.
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THE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS..
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AND Josias held the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the fourteenth day...
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having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in their vestments, in the te...
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And he spake unto the Levites, the temple-servants of Israel, that they should hallow themselves unt...
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and said, Ye shall no more have need to bear it upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord yo...
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according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the magnificence of Solomon his s...
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offer the passover in order, and make ready the sacrifices for your brethren, and keep the passover...
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And unto the people which were present Josias gave thirty thousand lambs and kids, and three thousan...
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And Helkias, and Zacharias, and Esyelus, the rulers of the temple, gave to the priests for the passo...
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And Jeconias, and Samaias and Nathanael his brother, and Sabias, and Ochielus, and Joram, captains o...
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And when these things were done, the priests and Levites, having the unleavened bread, stood in come...
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and according to the several divisions by fathers’ houses, before the people, to offer to the Lord,...
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And they roasted the passover with fire, as appertaineth: and the sacrifices they sod in the brazen...
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and set them before all the people: and afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests...
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For the priests offered the fat until night: and the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the pr...
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The holy singers also, the sons of Asaph, were in their order, according to the appointment of David...
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Moreover the porters were at every gate; none had need to depart from his daily course: for their br...
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Thus were the things that belonged to the sacrifices of the Lord accomplished in that day, in holdin...
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and offering sacrifices upon the altar of the Lord, according to the commandment of King Josias.
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So the children of Israel which were present at that time held the passover, and the feast of unleav...
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And such a passover was not held in Israel since the time of the prophet Samuel.
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Yea, all the kings of Israel held not such a passover as Josias, and the priests, and the Levites, a...
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In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias was this passover held.
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And the works of Josias were upright before his Lord with a heart full of godliness.
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Moreover the things that came to pass in his days have been written in times past, concerning those...
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Now after all these acts of Josias it came to pass, that Pharaoh the king of Egypt came to raise war...
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But the king of Egypt sent to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, O king of Judaea?
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I am not sent out from the Lord God (Elohim) against thee; for my war is upon Euphrates: and now the...
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Howbeit Josias did not turn back unto his chariot, but undertook to fight with him, not regarding th...
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but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came down against King Josias.
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Then said the king unto his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immed...
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Then gat he up upon his second chariot; and being brought back to Jerusalem he died, and was buried...
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And in all Jewry they mourned for Josias; and Jeremy the prophet lamented for Josias, and the chief...
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These things are written in the book of the histories of the kings of Judea, and every one of the ac...
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And the people took Joachaz the son of Josias, and made him king instead of Josias his father, when...
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And he reigned in Judah and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from r...
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And he set a tax upon the people of a hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold.
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The king of Egypt also made King Joakim his brother king of Judaea and Jerusalem.
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And Joakim bound the nobles: but Zarakes his brother he apprehended, and brought him up out of Egypt...
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Five and twenty years old was Joakim when he began to reign in Judaea and Jerusalem; and he did that...
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And against him Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon came up, and bound him with a chain of brass, and...
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Nabuchodonosor also took of the holy vessels of the Lord, and carried them away, and set them up in...
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But those things that are reported of him, and of his uncleanness and impiety, are written in the ch...
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And Joakim his son reigned in his stead: for when he was made king he was eighteen years old;
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and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem; and did that which was evil before the Lord.
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So after a year Nabuchodonosor sent and caused him to be brought unto Babylon with the holy vessels...
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and made Sedekias king of Judaea and Jerusalem, when he was one and twenty years old; and he reigned...
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and he also did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were...
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And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himsel...
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Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many things wickedly, and passed all the...
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And the God (Elohim) of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he had compas...
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But they mocked his messengers; and in the day when the Lord spake unto them, they scoffed at his pr...
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so far forth, that he, being wroth with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring u...
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who slew their young men with the sword, round about their holy temple, and spared neither young man...
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And they took all the holy vessels of the Lord, both great and small, with the vessels of the ark of...
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And they burnt the house of the Lord, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem, and burnt the towers th...
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and as for her glorious things, they never ceased till they had brought them all to nought: and the...
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and they were servants unto him and unto his children, till the Persians reigned, to fulfil the word...
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Until the land hath enjoyed her sabbaths, the whole time of her desolation shall she keep sabbath, t...
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