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Blessed be the LORDGod of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king'sheart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem:
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And hath extendedmercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king'smightyprinces. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.