"I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting."

"The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:"

"¶ Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD."

"And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done."

"And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about."

"I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD."

"So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought her to the king."

"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."

"¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,"

"But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, 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."