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So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.
Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.
On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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.
