And he called Gehazi and said, "Call for this Shunammite." And he called her. And when she was come to him, he said, "Take thy son."

Then she went and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son and went out.

And she went and told her husband, saying, "Thus and thus sayeth the maid that is out of the land of Israel."

Then said the king to her, "What aileth thee?" And she answered, "This woman here said to me, 'Bring thy son and let us eat him today, and we will eat mine tomorrow.'

And so we dressed my son and did eat him. And I said to her another day, 'Bring thy son that we may eat him.' But she hath hid her son."

And the woman arose and did after the saying of the man of God, and went both she and her household and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

And at the seven years' end, when the woman was come again out of the land of the Philistines she went out to speak to the king for her house and for her land.

And the king asked the woman, and she told him. And so the king sent with her one of his chamberlains saying, "Restore all that pertaineth to her, with all the fruits of the field, since the day she left the land, unto this time."

And as Jehu entered at the gate she said, "Had Zimri peace which slew his master?"

And then when he was come in and had eaten and drunk, he said, "Go and visit, I pray you, yonder cursed creature; and bury her, for she is a king's daughter."

And Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw that her son was dead, she arose and slew all the seed of the king.

And when Athaliah heard the noise of the running of the people, she came to the people into the house of the LORD.

And when she saw the king stand by a pillar - as the manner was - and the singers and the trumpets by the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing, and the blowing of the trumpets, she rent her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds that had the rule of the host, and said to them, "Bring her without the wall. And if any follow her, let him die with the sword. For the priest said, "She may not be slain in the house of the LORD."

And they laid hands on her, and she went the way that the horses of the kings went out and was slain there.

And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

And she said to them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: 'Tell the man that sent you to me,

and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth.

The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.

Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah;

The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bare Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbok and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.

And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead and was, when he took her, three score years old. And she bare him Segub.

And Sheshan had a servant that was an Egyptian named Jarha to whom he gave his daughter to wife, and she bare him Attai.

And she bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And Caleb had a daughter called Achsah.

The sons of Manasseh: Asriel which Aramea his concubine bare: she bare also Machir the father of Gilead.

And as the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD came unto the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at a window: and when she saw king David dancing and playing, she despised him in her heart.

But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 'Thou hast shed much blood, and hast made many battles. Thou shalt not build a house for my name, for thou hast shed much blood to the earth in my sight.

But God said to me, 'Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou art a man of war and hast shed blood.'

And the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon and came to prove him with riddles at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and with camels that bare sweet odours and plenty of gold and precious stone. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

And then she said to the king, "The saying which I heard in mine own land, of thine acts and of thy wisdom, is truth.

And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of sweet odours an exceeding great abundance with precious stones, that there was no such sweet odours as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked above that she brought unto the king. And so she turned and went away unto her own land with her servants.

And thereto king Asa put Maacah his mother out of authority, because she had made an idol in a grove: and brake down her idol and stamped it and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

For Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah, when she saw her son was dead, arose and destroyed all the seed of the kingdom of the house of Judah.

But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a sleeping chamber. And so Jehoshabeath the daughter of king Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest - because she was the sister of Ahaziah - hid him from Athaliah that she slew him not.

When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went among the people into the house of the LORD.

And when she saw the king stand at his pillar in the entering, and the lords and trumpets about the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of music teaching to praise. Then she rent her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!"

And they laid hands on her, and when she was come out to the entering of the horse gate in the king's house, they slew her there.

And she said unto them, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: 'Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had her pleasure of her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath until she had fulfilled seventy years.

to fetch the queen Vashti with the crown regal, that he might show the people and princes her fairness: for she was beautiful.

"What law," sayeth the king, "should be executed upon the queen Vashti, because she did not according to the word of the king by his chamberlains?"

for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands before their eyes, and shall say, 'The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to come before him, but she would not.'

If it please the king, let there go a commandment from him, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and Medians - and not to be transgressed - that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus, and let the king give the kingdom unto another that is better than she.

After these acts when the displeasure of king Ahasuerus was allayed, he thought upon Vashti: what she had done, and what was concluded concerning her.

and he nourished Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and she was a fair and beautiful damsel. And when her father and mother died, Mordecai received her as his own daughter.

And the damsel pleased him, and she found grace in his sight. And he caused her ointment to be given her, and her gifts, and gave her seven comely damsels out of the king's house, and favored both her and her gentle women singularly in the house of the women.

But Esther showed not her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her, that she should not tell it.

And when the appointed time of every damsel came that she should come to the king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months in the decking of the women - for their decking must have so much time, namely six months with Balm and Myrrh, and six months with good spices; so were the women beautified -

then went there one damsel unto the king, and whatsoever she required, that must be given her to go with her out of the women's building unto the king's palace.

And when one came in the evening, the same went from him on the morrow into the second house of women, under the hand of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain which kept the concubines. And she must come in unto the king no more, except it pleased the king, and that he caused her to be called by name.

Now when the time came of Esther the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, which had received her as his own daughter, that she should come to the king, she desired nothing but what Hegei the king's chamberlain the keeper of the women, said. And Esther found favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she found grace and mercy in his sight before all the virgins: and he set the queens crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

So Esther's damsels and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly astonished. And she sent raiment, that Mordecai should put them on and lay the sackcloth from him. But Mordecai would not take them.

And he gave him the copy of the commandment, that was devised at Susa to destroy them, that he might show it unto Esther, and to speak to her and charge her; that she should go into the king, and make her prayer and supplication unto him for her people.

And when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she found grace in his sight. And the king held out the golden scepter in his hand toward Esther. So Esther stepped forth, and touched the top of the scepter.

Haman said moreover, "Yea and Esther the queen let no man come with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared, except me, and tomorrow am I bidden unto her also with the king.

His substance was seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred she-asses, and a very great household: so that he was one of the most principal men among all them of the east country.

Now when Job's friends heard of all the trouble that happened to him, there came three of them, every one from his own place: namely, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they were agreed together to come, to shew their compassion on him, and to comfort him.

Lo, though he slay me, yet will I put my trust in him. But if I shew and reprove mine own ways in his sight,

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

"The deep sayeth, 'She is not in me.' The sea sayeth, 'She is not with me.'

She cannot be gotten for the most fine gold, neither may the price of her be bought with any money.

She is hid from the eyes of all men; yea, and from the fouls of the air.

At the breath of God, the frost cometh, and the waters are shed abroad.

For she leaveth her eggs upon the ground, and heateth them in the dust.

She remembereth not that they might be trodden with feet or broken with some wild beast.

So hard is she to her young ones, as though they were not hers, and laboureth in vain without any fear.

When her time is, she flyeth up on high, and careth neither for horse nor man.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye then to my soul, that she should flee as a bird unto the hill?

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed; for God helpeth her, and that right early.

that she should not hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.

Their blood have they shed like water on every side of Jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them.

Wherefore shall the heathen say, "Where is now their God?" O let the vengeance of thy servant's blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the heathen in our sight.

She stretched out her branches unto the sea, and her boughs unto the river.

For the sparrow hath found her a house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.

For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.

She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying,

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and blessed are they that keep her fast.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Make much of her and she shall promote thee: Yea, if thou embracest her, she shall bring thee unto honour.

She shall make thee a gracious head, and garnish thee with the crown of glory."

Take fast hold of doctrine, let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

But at the last she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two edged sword.

She regardeth not the path of life, so unsteadfast are her ways, that thou canst not know them.

She hath no guide, no teacher, no leader:

yet in the summer she provideth her meat, and gathereth her food together in the harvest.

A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

That she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the harlot which giveth sweet words.

She was full of loud words and ready to dally: whose feet could not abide in the house.

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lurketh in every corner.

She caught the young man, kissed him, and was not ashamed, saying,

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

so long till she hath wounded his liver with her dart: like as if a bird hasted to the snare, not knowing that the peril of his life lieth thereupon.

For many a one hath she wounded and cast down, yea many a strong man hath she slain.

Standeth she not in the high places in the streets and ways?

Doth she not cry before the whole city, and in the gates where men go out and in?