<p class="poetry">His God instructs him;p> <p class="poetry">he teaches him the principles of agriculture.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">They will say to you, &#8220;Seek oracles at the pits used to conjure up underworld spirits, from the magicians who chirp and mutter incantations.<n id="2" /> Should people not seek oracles from their gods, by asking the dead about the destiny of the living?&#8221;<n id="3" />

One day,<n id="1" /> as he was worshiping<n id="2" /> in the temple of his god Nisroch,<n id="3" /> his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword.<n id="4" /> They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.p>

<p class="poetry">They seek me day after day;p> <p class="poetry">they want to know my requirements,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like a nation that does what is rightp> <p class="poetry">and does not reject the law of their God.p> <p class="poetry">They ask me for just decrees;p> <p class="poetry">they want to be near God.p>