Ezra 4 (KJV) 1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity , Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us. 4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, 5 And hired counsellors . 24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem.

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in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street, 5 And said unto them together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying , and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah. 9 After this did Sennacherib , as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man. 20 And for

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that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together. 9 Her gates are sunk into the when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their work of their hands. 65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. 66 Persecute and destroy them comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter

the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. 13 Therefore they gathered them together, and filled the people which stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was none other boat there, save that nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:) 24 When the people work the works of God? what dost thou work?

7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please them, and speak good words people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it somewhat lighter unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? Jerusalem. 5 Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together ; and they said, The Lord is righteous. 7 And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word

therefore the parable of the sower. [19] When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? . [58] And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

in the wilderness: [9] When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. [10] Forty years long together of all these things which had happened. [15] And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. [16] But their eyes were holden [33] And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, [8]

of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, by lot thirteen cities, tribe of Dan, and out of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, by lot ten cities: 6 And for the sons of Gershon [are], out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, by lot, thirteen cities. 7 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel [are] forty and eight

their pride together with the spoils of their hands. [12] And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls stubble. [8] And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood and strangers in it. [20] And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people good; for his mercy endureth for ever. [35] And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together : the right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. [17] I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of

Hebrews 6:10-20 (KJV) 10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who