Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down.

The people who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.

I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,

At that time the generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year.

(But the city’s land and nearby towns were allotted to Caleb son of Jephunneh.)

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple.

Joel son of Zicri was the officer in charge of them, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second-in-command over the city.

So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king’s gate.

He will go back the way he came – he will not enter this city,’ says the Lord.

I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.”’”

I, the Lord, say: ‘That is how I will deal with this city and its citizens. I will make it like Topheth.

I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.