<p class="bodytext">&#8220;You must not allow a sorceress to live.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For wisdom provides<n id="1" /> protection,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">just as<n id="3" /> money provides protection.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">But the advantage of knowledge is this:p> <p class="poetry">Wisdom preserves the life<n id="5" /> of its owner.p>

<p class="poetry">You will live by your swordp> <p class="poetry">but you will serve your brother.p> <p class="poetry">When you grow restless,p> <p class="poetry">you will tear off his yokep> <p class="poetry">from your neck.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

You must pursue justice alone<n id="1" /> so that you may live and inherit the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">As for the cities of these peoples that<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing<n id="2" /> to survive.

Elisha said to him, &#8220;Go and tell him, &#8216;You will surely recover,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> has revealed to me that he will surely die.&#8221;

He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad<n id="1" /> asked him, &#8220;What did Elisha tell you?&#8221; Hazael<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;He told me you would surely recover.&#8221;

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" /> except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies<n id="2" /> we sent.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness.<n id="1" /> The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness.<n id="1" /> The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.&#8217;&#8221;

Then, if anyone prophesies in spite of this, his father and mother to whom he was born will say to him, &#8216;You cannot live, for you lie in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217; Then his father and mother to whom he was born will run him through with a sword when he prophesies.<n id="1" />p>