So look, the <sc>Lordsc> is about to severely afflict<n id="1" /> your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.

So now, look, the <sc>Lordsc> has placed a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours; but the <sc>Lordsc> has decreed disaster for you.&#8221;

You defeated Edom<n id="1" /> and it has gone to your head.<n id="2" /> Gloat over your success,<n id="3" /> but stay in your palace. Why bring calamity on yourself? Why bring down yourself and Judah along with you?&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed,<n id="2" /> and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the <sc>Lordsc> our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;God does not really live with humankind on the earth!<n id="1" /> Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

&#8220;I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made.<n id="1" /> See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land.&#8221;<n id="2" />

Now the messenger who went to summon Micaiah said to him, &#8220;Look, the prophets are in complete agreement that the king will succeed.<n id="1" /> Your words must agree with theirs; you must predict success!&#8221;<n id="2" />

Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming!<n id="1" /> When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands.<n id="2" /> They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada<n id="1" /> said to them, &#8220;The king&#8217;s son will rule, just as the <sc>Lordsc> promised David&#8217;s descendants.

<p class="bodytext">Oded, a prophet of the <sc>Lordsc>, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: &#8220;Look, because the <sc>Lordsc> God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.<n id="1" />

They said to them, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bring those captives here! Are you planning on making us even more sinful and guilty before the <sc>Lordsc>?<n id="1" /> Our guilt is already great and the <sc>Lordsc> is very angry at Israel.&#8221;<n id="2" />