<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if he strikes him out of hatred or throws something at him intentionally<n id="1" /> so that he dies,

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But if he strikes him suddenly, without enmity, or throws anything at him unintentionally,

<t /><p class="lamhebrew">&#1488; (<i>Alefi>)p> <p class="poetry">Alas!<n id="1" /> The Lord<n id="2" /> has coveredp> <p class="poetry">Daughter Zion<n id="3" /> with his anger.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">He has thrown down the splendor of Israelp> <p class="poetry">from heaven to earth;p> <p class="poetry">he did not protect<n id="5" /> his temple<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">when he displayed his anger.<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">The women singing in the temple<n id="1" /> will wail in that day.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> is speaking.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;There will be many corpses littered everywhere!<n id="2" /> Be quiet!&#8221;p>

As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from<n id="1" /> Beth Horon, the <sc>Lordsc> threw down on them large hailstones from the sky,<n id="2" /> all the way to Azekah. They died &#8211; in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.p>

Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one<n id="1" /> that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel.<n id="2" /> Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies.<n id="3" />