warn<n id="1" /> them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk<n id="2" /> and the work they must do.<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Ephraim will be struck down<n id="1" /> &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">their root will be dried up;p> <p class="poetry">they will not yield any fruit.p> <p class="poetry">Even if they do bear children,p> <p class="poetry">I will kill their precious offspring.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Eli was very old when he heard about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel<n id="1" /> and how they used to have sex with<n id="2" /> the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning,<n id="1" /> &#8220;May the gods judge me severely<n id="2" /> if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Ben Hadad sent another message to him, &#8220;May the gods judge me severely<n id="1" /> if there is enough dirt left in Samaria for my soldiers to scoop up in their hands.&#8221;<n id="2" />