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195 |
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195 |
U-V |
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And the King Artaxerxes that kindly persisted |
464 |
Artaxerxes Longimannus, the |
Unkindness Unto Vashti |
Ezra |
Is also as King Ahasueris enlisted. |
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Ahasueris of Esther, reigns. |
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VII |
And where this king flourished and where this king reigned |
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Was where the remainder of Jews had remained. |
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196 |
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196 |
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And his was the consort that would not be seen! |
462 |
The nobles are feasted |
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Esther |
Fair Vashti, the modest, the beauteous Queen! |
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and Vashti is divorced. |
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I |
Who would not be seen, and a coronet lost, |
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II |
As Esther was chosen, and she was divorced. |
458 |
Esther is made Queen. |
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197 |
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197 |
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Thus many were willing, both willing, and able, |
457 |
Artaxerxes issues a decree in |
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Ezra |
To go forth with Ezra to prince Zerubbabel |
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favor of the Jews and sends |
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VII |
So Ezra these Jews to Jerusalem brought, |
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Ezra as Governor to Judea. |
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And ably and wisely the Israelites taught. |
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198 |
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198 |
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He found that fair heathen in marriage were taken, |
456 |
Upon his arrival in Jerusalem, |
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IX |
And he prayed and he plead till those wives were forsaken. |
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Ezra separates the Jews from |
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But these were the Jews to Jerusalem carried, |
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their heathen wives. |
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So I’ll tell of the Jews that in Babylon tarried: |
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199 |
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199 |
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Of Esther the good, and the beauteous Queen, |
452 |
Haman’s schemes against the |
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Esther |
That Vashti succeeded, who would not be seen! |
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Jews are defeated in his own |
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III-X |
Who Mordecai aided, and Haman defeated, |
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destruction. |
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The Haman so cruel as well as conceited! |
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200 |
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200 |
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Who sought not his anger, his malice to smother, |
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Haman hangs on the gallows |
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VII |
And hung on the gallows prepared for another, |
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he had prepared for Mordecai, |
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And with Haman deceased, there were none to conspire, |
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the Jew. |
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But privilege granted to one Nehemiah. |
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201 |
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W – Walls |
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He hastened from Babylon’s beauteous halls, |
445 |
Nehemiah is sent as Governor |
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Nehemiah |
To aid in re-building Jerusalem’s walls, |
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to Judea and re-builds |
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II |
And these walls were re-built and a covenant made |
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Jerusalem’s walls. |
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And yet were the laws of their God disobeyed. |
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202 |
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202 |
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For when Nehemiah from Persia returned, |
443 |
Nehemiah visits the Persian Court. |
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XIII |
He found that those people that covenant spurned: |
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1-22 |
That the Temple was closed, and the Levites unpaid |
428 |
Nehemiah returns to Judea. |
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And saleable wares on the Sabbath displayed; |
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203 |
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203 |
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And again had fair heathen in marriage been taken, |
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Nehemiah reforms the abuses |
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Though they knew of their fathers distressed and forsaken, |
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that crept in during his |
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23-31 |
So he could but remind them of Solomon’s sin, |
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absence from Judea. |
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Although far the wisest of men had he been. |
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204 |
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X – Xerxes |
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Then the reign of the King Artaxerxes was run, |
424 |
Artaxerxes dies. |
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And he was succeeded by Xerxes, his son, |
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Xerxes reigns. |
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And then was this Xerxes by Darius slain, |
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Xerxes slain. |
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And then did this infamous Darius reign. |
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Darius reigns. |
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205 |
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Y – Yielding |
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And then when the Hebrews were yielding to sin, |
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Malachi prophesizes |
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Malachi |
Both Malachi’s warnings and chidings begin. |
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concerning the coming of |
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I II III |
And then is Elijah foretold and awaited! |
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Elijah, as John the Baptist |
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IV |
A prophet as great as the prophet translated! |
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was called. |
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206 |
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Z – Zeal & Zion |
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He tells them of Zion! He shows them the way! |
400 |
Malachi dies. |
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IV |
He bids them the zeal of the chosen display! |
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And bidding them cling to the teachings of Moses, |
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With Malachi’s warning the Testament closes! |
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The Old Testament closes. |
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T H E E N D. |
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