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The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages.

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that 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 porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.

Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

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

And the letters were sent by posts 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, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which 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 the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

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

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.