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How they made a plan concerning Zion (i.e. Zion), and the sheep and the goats to the right and and at the west of it, which is close to its And your Lord David shall speak to Solomon exit. the King and shall say unto him, One thing I ask from thee, O father, I would offer up a sacrifice to the holy city Jerusalem, and to my Lady Zion, the holy and heavenly Tabernacle of the Law of God.' And Solomon shall say unto him, Do so.' And David shall say unto him, Let the son of the priest offer up sacrifice on my behalf, even as he knoweth and he will give thee the command, and thou shalt offer up the And thou shalt bring forth the Tabernacle sacrifice. of the Law of God after thou hast offered up the sacrifice, and I will again show thee what thou shalt do in for this is from God. respect of it as to bringing it out For Israel hath provoked God to wrath, and for this reason He will make the Tabernacle of the Law of God to depart from him." And when Azaryas awoke from his dream he rejoiced greatly, and his heart and his mind were clear, and he remembered everything that the Angel of the Lord had shown him in the night, and how he had sealed him [with the sign of the Cross], and given him strength and heartened him. And he went to his brethren, and when they were gathered together he told them everyhow the thing that the Angel of God had shown him Tabernacle of the Law of God had been given to them, and how God had made blind His eye in respect of the kingdom of Israel, and how its glory had been given to others, and they themselves were to take away the Tabernacle of the Law of God, and how the kingdom of Solomon was to be seized by them with the excep" tion of two rods," and how it was not to be left to Iy6rbe'am (Rehoboam) his son, and how the kingdom of Israel was to be divided. And [Azaryas said], " ReI joice with me. rejoice because it hath been shown unto me thus for the grace of their priesthood and left thereof, ' ' ' ' ; ; : ; 69