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charging them to keep the passages of the hill country, for through them there was an entrance into Judea, and it was easy to stop those who would come up, because the passage was narrow, for two men at the most.
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And the children of Israel did as Joakim the high priest had commanded them, with the elders of all the people of Israel who dwelt at Jerusalem.
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Then every man of Israel cried to God with great fervency, and with great vehemency did they humble their souls--
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both they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, and every stranger and hireling--and their servants bought with money put sackcloth upon their loins.
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Thus every man and women, and the little children and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, fell before the temple and cast ashes upon their heads, and spread out their sackcloth before the face of the Lord. Also they put sackcloth about the altar,
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