All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, but not to the same degree as the Israelite kings who preceded him.

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.

Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The sovereign Lord who commands armies has spoken.

Bring out some water for the thirsty. You who live in the land of Tema, bring some food for the fugitives.

He will be left unburied just like a dead donkey. His body will be dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.’”

Johanan and all the officers of the troops that had been hiding in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah.

“I have chosen you alone from all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.”

But I will be different now to this remnant of my people from the way I was in those days,’ says the Lord who rules over all,

But I tell you most certainly, there are some standing here who will not experience death before they see the kingdom of God.”

In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents.”

And in their prayers on your behalf they long for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown to you.

but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature.

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet’s own imagination,

(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.)

The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.