I said to you, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God! Do not worship<n id="1" /> the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!&#8221; But you have disobeyed me.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For he says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;By my strong hand I have accomplished this,p> <p class="poetry">by my strategy that I devised.p> <p class="poetry">I invaded the territory of nations,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and looted their storehouses.p> <p class="poetry">Like a mighty conqueror,<n id="2" /> I brought down rulers.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Now the king of Israel and King Jehoshaphat of Judah were sitting on their respective thrones, dressed in their royal robes, at the threshing floor at<n id="1" /> the entrance of the gate of Samaria. All the prophets were prophesying before them.

He went down to the chamber of the royal secretary in the king&#8217;s palace and found all the court officials in session there. Elishama<n id="1" /> the royal secretary, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor,<n id="2" /> Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials were seated there.

I came to the exiles at Tel Abib,<n id="1" /> who lived by the Kebar River.<n id="2" /> I sat dumbfounded among them there, where they were living, for seven days.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth of the month,<n id="1" /> as I was sitting in my house with the elders of Judah sitting in front of me, the hand<n id="2" /> of the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> seized me.<n id="3" />