‘If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters #– #yes, and even his own life #– #he cannot be my disciple.
I know your works, your labour, and your endurance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you have found them to be liars.
Then Jehu son of the seer Hanani went out to confront him and said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘Do you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, the Lord’s wrath is on you.
‘ “Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged myself to you, entered into a covenant with you #– #this is the declaration of the Lord God #– #and you became mine.
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the Lord had told Moses. Joshua then gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the land allotted to each tribe. After this, the land had rest from war.
When Joram saw Jehu he asked, ‘Do you come in peace, Jehu? ’ He answered, ‘What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and sorcery from your mother Jezebel? ’