Sheva was scribe; Zadok and Abiathar were the priests;

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters.

“Therefore wait for Me,” says the Lord,“Until the day I rise up for plunder;My determination is to gather the nationsTo My assembly of kingdoms,To pour on them My indignation,All My fierce anger;All the earth shall be devouredWith the fire of My jealousy.

Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

Immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in prison,

Then the elders of Jabesh said to him, “Hold off for seven days, that we may send messengers to all the territory of Israel. And then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”

Thus says the Lord my God, “Feed the flock for slaughter,