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Upon reading this letter, the king of Israel tore his garments about him, and asked, Am I God, with power to kill men and bring them to life again, that he should send a leper to me to be cured? Mark well how eager he is to pick a quarrel with me! (2 Kings 5, 7)
And there in the open space before the Water-gate he proclaimed the law, before men and women and such younger folk as could take it in, from daybreak to noon, and all listened attentively while the reading went on. (Nehemiah 8, 3)
Then the Levites came forward, Josue, Bani, Serebia, Jamin, Accub, Sebthai, Odia, Maasia, Celita, Azarias, Jozabed, Hanan and Phalaia; these enjoined silence on the people, as they stood there in their places for the reading of the law. (Nehemiah 8, 7)
And they read out the book of the law, clear and plain to give the sense of it, so that all could understand the reading. (Nehemiah 8, 8)
In the reading of them, they came upon the story of the plot made by two chamberlains, Bagathan and Thares, to murder the king, and how Mardochaeus gave information of it. (Esther 6, 2)
This feast has ever been known as the feast of Purim, because of Aman’s lot-taking. Here in this letter, nay, this book you have been reading, the whole story has been set out, deeds done, (Esther 9, 26)
Happy, Lord, is the man whom thou dost chasten, reading him the lesson of thy law! (Psalms 93, 12)
This letter was still in the reading, when all of a sudden came other envoys from Galilee, their garments rent about them; their message was, (1 Maccabees 5, 14)
Nothing but wine to take, nothing but water, thy health forbids; vary thy drinking,✻ and thou shalt find content. So it is with reading; if the book be too nicely polished at every point, it grows wearisome. So here we will have done with it. (2 Maccabees 15, 40)
Nay, I understood too well that God’s dealings with man, here under the sun, are past all accounting for; the more a man labours to read that riddle, the less he finds out, and he least of all, that boasts himself wise in the reading of it. (Ecclesiastes 8, 17)
Or if wide knowledge be thy ambition, she can inform thee of what is past, make conjecture of the future; she is versed in the subtleties of debate, in the reading of all riddles; marvels and portents she can foretell, and what events time or season will bring. (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 8)
When all the reading was over, they looked each at other in amazement, and told Baruch all this must be brought to the king’s ears. (Jeremiah 36, 16)
