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Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium .

They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe , cities of Lycaonia , and unto the region that lieth round about:

And there sat a certain man at Lystra , impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:

And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra , and to Iconium , and Antioch ,

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch , at Iconium , at Lystra ; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra : and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

I gathered you together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings: but now, what shall I do to you? I will cast you out from my presence.

But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened:

open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.

and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, each having a Greek force, a hundred and ten thousand footmen, and five thousand and three hundred horsemen, and two and twenty elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes.

And I saw, and, behold, as it were a lion roused out of the wood roaring: and I heard how that he sent out a man’s voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,

To king Artaxerxes our Lord, Your servants, Rathumus the storywriter, and Samellius the scribe, and the rest of their council, and the judges that are in Coelesyria and Phoenicia .

And your children shall die of hunger, and you shall fall by the sword: and your cities shall be broken down, and all your shall perish by the sword in the field.

And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their host shall be fear and trembling, and sedition against their kings.

and that Lysias went first with a strong host, and was put to shame before them; and that they had waxed strong by reason of arms and power, and with store of spoils, which they took from the armies that they had cut off;

The little fountain which grew into a river, and had turned into light and into the sun, and overflowed into many waters, is Esther , whom the king received as wife and whom he preferred to be queen.

Go your way, and show my people their sinful deeds, and their children their wickedness which they have done against me; that they may tell their children’s children:

Therefore says the Lord,

But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,

and of all the lands of the world you have chosen you one country: and of all the flowers of the world you have chosen you one lily:

And Lysias chose Ptolemy the son of Dorymenes, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s Friends;

Then went I forth and passed into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly to the Most High because of his wonders, which he did from time to time;

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt :