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Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:
One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour's wife,
And of the sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad, and Aziza.
