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Thereafter David spent every Sabbath exclusively in the study of the Torah, in order to secure himself against the Angel of Death, who has no power to slay a man while he is occupied with the fulfillment of God's commandments
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Once on a time, a Moslem pasha visited the mausoleum, and as he was looking through the window in it, a weapon of his ornamented with diamonds and pearls dropped into the tomb
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In her terror the poor creature had begun to weep and implore God for help
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Whenever thy father's wives were pregnant, they offered vows and prayed that a son worthy to reign might be born unto them
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But Solomon's wealth and pomp were as naught in comparison with his wisdom
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Ornias, the vampire spirit who had maltreated Solomon's servant, was the first demon to appear, and he was set to the task of cutting stones near the Temple
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A hound-like spirit, whose name was Rabdos, followed, and he revealed to Solomon a green stone, useful for the adornment of the Temple
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He cried when he saw the wedding company, because he knew the bridegroom had not a month to live, and he laughed at him who wanted shoes to last seven years, because the man would not own them for seven days, also at the magician who pretended to disclose secr
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Asmodeus told Solomon that the shamir was given by God to the Angel of the Sea, and that Angel entrusted none with the shamir except the moor-hen, (85) which had taken an oath to watch the shamir carefully
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When the tongue set forth its own contribution to the cause of the king's service, the other organs rejected its claim as totally unfounded
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Besides Benaiah, Solomon's two scribes, Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, deserve mention
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Indeed, she is in great part the cause of his suffering, and Ahab realized it
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Water flowed out from Elijah's fingers until the whole trench was filled
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About three years (31) later, Elijah was taken up into heaven, (32) but not without first undergoing a struggle with the Angel of Death
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Elijah's miraculous deeds will be better understood if we remember that he had been an angel from the very first, even before the end of his earthly career
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The prince who had purchased Elijah intended to build a palace, and he rejoiced to hear that his new slave was an architect
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He again set forth on his journey, but this time he took another road to avoid the stranger of ill omen
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The supplications of the bridegroom failed to move him; he refused to grant a single day's respite
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A similar thing befell the son of the great and extremely pious scholar Rabbi Reuben
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His earliest relation to it was established through Rabbi Simon ben Yohai and his son Rabbi Eliezer
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He was a saintly scholar, and he had conceived no less a purpose than to bring about the redemption of man by the conquest of the angel Samael, the Prince of Evil
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Her husband had been none other than Obadiah, who, though a prophet, had at the same time been one of the highest officials at the court of the sinful king Ahab
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It is a law that when their time has come, all the fish of the sea must betake themselves to leviathan, and let the monster devour them
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But God sent a female fish big with three hundred and sixty-five thousand little fish to Jonah's host, to demand the surrender of the prophet, else she would swallow both him and the guest he harbored
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After she had borne him several children, God suddenly put the question to him: "Why followest thou not the example of thy teacher Moses, who denied himself the joys of family life after his call to prophecy?" Hosea replied: "I can neither send my wife away no
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The only good quality possessed by Ahaz was respect for Isaiah
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e reign of Hoshea, carried off the second golden calf together with the tribes of Asher, Issachar, Zebulon, and Naphtali, leaving but one-eighth of the Israelites in their own land
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would have been successful, for the sin of Saul against the priest at Nob had not yet been wholly expiated; on that very day it was fully atoned for
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Shebnah's treachery and his other sins did not go unpunished
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Hezekiah had finally yielded to the admonitions of Isaiah, and had taken a wife unto himself, (93) the daughter of the prophet
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This godless generation contemporaneous with Josiah was to blame for his death
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r father, the children of Zedekiah were killed, and then Zedekiah himself was deprived of sight; his eyes were blinded
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reasoned: "If unto Elam, which is a mere ally of the Babylonians against the Jews, destruction has been appointed by God through Jeremiah, so much the more will the extreme penalty fall upon the Babylonians themselves, who have inflicted vast evil upon the Jew
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Jeremiah rejoiced; he took this as a sign that God would be gracious to Judah, else He would not have commanded him to take possession of a piece of land
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When they arrived at the borders of the Holy Land, they all, prophet and people, broke out into loud wails, and Jeremiah said: "Yes, brethren and countrymen, all this hath befallen you, because ye did not hearken unto the words of my prophecy." (41) Jeremiah j
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Dejected, oppressed by his grief, Jeremiah saw the fulfilment of his prophecy against the coquettish maidens of Jerusalem, who had pursued but the pleasures and enjoyments of the world
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y showed their tyrants mutilated hands, with which it was impossible to manipulate their harps
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The task laid upon Jeremiah had been twofold
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The angels desired to descend and rescue the three men in the furnace
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The Babylonian women were seized with a great passion for them, and at the solicitation of their husbands, Nebuchadnezzar ordered a bloody massacre of the handsome youths
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As Hiram was thus floating above the earth, in his vain imagination deeming himself superior to the rest of men, he suddenly perceived the prophet Ezekiel next to himself
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They scattered in dread and fear, leaving none behind except the king and his attendants
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But this is not the whole story of the fall of Babylon
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Another time Cyrus pressingly urged Daniel to pay homage to the idol Bel
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They had vanished, and no trace of them could be discovered
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While this was passing in Babylon, an angel appeared to the prophet Habakkuk in Judea
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Once he addressed a prayer to God, in which he complained of the misfortune of Israel and the prosperity of the heathen nations
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When Pharaoh was about to make Joseph the ruler over Egypt, and it appeared that he was unacquainted with the seventy tongues which an Egyptian sovereign must know, the angel Gabriel came and taught him those languages, whereupon the angels spoke: "Blessed art
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