I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair. I forced them to take an oath before God and said, ‘You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!
When shadows began to fall on the city gates of Jerusalem just before the Sabbath, I gave orders that the city gates be closed and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my men at the gates, so that no goods could enter during the Sabbath day.
I told him that I am going to judge his family for ever because of the iniquity which he knows about: his sons are cursing God, and he has not stopped them.
‘Then, as the Lord had said, my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard and urged me, “Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.