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But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the LORD our God, as he shall command us.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
And ye are witnesses of these things.
Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.
And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael the cities, which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times did Joash beat him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
