And men of the leaders of the Ephraimites: Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah, Meshillemoth’s son, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, rose up against those coming in from the army.
And the sons of Israel seized two hundred thousand of their brothers, wives, sons and daughters, and also they plundered from them much plunder, and they brought the plunder to Samaria.
Please let our rulers for all the congregation stand, and let all those who have dwelt with foreign women in our cities come at a set time, and with them the elders of city by city, and its judges, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter has turned from us.
this is not the fast I have chosen: to open bands of wickedness, to undo thongs of the yoke, and to send out free the ones being oppressed, and that you pull off every yoke?