And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart even as the sand that is on the sea shore

Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem His mother 039 s name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord according to all that David his father did He removed the high places and brake the images and cut down the groves and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it and he called it Nehushtan He trusted in the Lord God of Israel so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah nor any that were before him For he clave to the Lord and departed not from following him but kept his commandments which the Lord commanded Moses And the Lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and served him not

I am as a wonder unto many but thou art my strong refuge

So Haman was hanged on the very gallows that he had built for Mordecai And the king rsquo s hot anger cooled

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end

And he leaping up stood and walked and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping and praising God And all the people saw him walking and praising God

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he was the son of his old age and he made him a coat of many colours And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him And Joseph dreamed a dream and he told it his brethren and they hated him yet the more And he said unto them Hear I pray you this dream which I have dreamed For behold we were binding sheaves in the field and lo my sheaf arose and also stood upright and behold your sheaves stood round about and made obeisance to my sheaf

But the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day

Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation

When he finished teaching he said to Simon ldquo Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch rdquo Simon said ldquo Master we rsquo ve been fishing hard all night and haven rsquo t caught even a minnow But if you say so I rsquo ll let out the nets rdquo It was no sooner said than done mdash a huge haul of fish straining the nets past capacity