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So when he was there, and called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the
altar, he sent for them that were of the tower,
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And shewed them vile Nicanor's head, and the hand of that blasphemer, which with proud
brags he had stretched out against the holy temple of the Almighty.
33
And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor, he commanded that they should
give it by pieces unto the fowls, and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.
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So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord, saying, Blessed be he that hath
kept his own place undefiled.
35
He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evident and manifest sign unto all of the
help of the Lord.
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And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity,
but to celebrate the thirtieth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar,
the day before Mardocheus' day.
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Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power.
And here will I make an end.
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And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired: but if slenderly
and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
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For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as wine mingled with water is pleasant,
and delighteth the taste: even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story.
And here shall be an end.
The First Book of
Esdras
CHAPTER ESDRAS 1
And Josias held the feast of the passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, and offered the passover the
fourteenth day of the first month;
2
Having set the priests according to their daily courses, being arrayed in long garments, in the
temple of the Lord.
3
And he spake unto the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel, that they should hallow themselves
unto the Lord, to set the holy ark of the Lord in the house that king Solomon the son of David had
built:
4
And said, Ye shall no more bear the ark upon your shoulders: now therefore serve the Lord
your God, and minister unto his people Israel, and prepare you after your families and kindreds,
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