Will your idle talk reduce people to silence, and will no one rebuke you when you mock?

They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

The Egyptians were urging the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

From the city the dying groan, and the wounded cry out for help, but God charges no one with wrongdoing.

The dead do not come back to life, the spirits of the dead do not rise. That is because you came in judgment and destroyed them, you wiped out all memory of them.

The Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 troops in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses!

You seem to love your enemies and hate your friends! For you have as much as declared today that leaders and servants don’t matter to you. I realize now that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, it would be all right with you.

That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.

Groan in silence for the dead, but do not perform mourning rites. Bind on your turban and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your lip and do not eat food brought by others.”