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And that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and also the women and the children rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for the children of Aaron.

because they had not met the children of Israel with bread and with water, and had hired Balaam against them, to curse them; but our God turned the curse into blessing.

Men of Tyre also dwelt therein, who brought fish and all manner of ware, and sold it on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.

And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, upon the thirteenth of the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east.

And it was so, when the days of the feasting were gone about, that Job sent and hallowed them; and he rose up early in the morning, and offered up burnt-offerings [according to] the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my children have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.

He that betrayeth friends for a prey—even the eyes of his children shall fail.

My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.

Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.

His children shall seek the favour of the poor, and his hands restore his wealth.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:

Lo, [as] wild asses in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking early for the prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] them food for [their] children.

If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword, and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread;

Jehovah [is] in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah,—his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.