Then Solomon passed away and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam replaced him as king.

Stand in the sanctuary and, together with the Levites, represent the family divisions of your countrymen.

In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

But the Levites, according to the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.

Those numbered from the Gershonites, by their families and by their clans,

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted in you and you rescued them.

Even if my father and mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in.

What we have heard and learned – that which our ancestors have told us –

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

A foolish child is a grief to his father, and bitterness to the mother who bore him.

May your father and your mother have joy; may she who bore you rejoice.

The father of your nation sinned; your spokesmen rebelled against me.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

“As for your ancestors, where are they? And did the prophets live forever?

So that night they made their father drunk with wine, and the older daughter came and had sexual relations with her father. But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.