And the mourning time passed by. And David sent and gathered her to his house; and she became to him for a wife, and bore a son to him. And the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
And Jehu went out to the servants of his lord. And one said to him, Peace? Why did this madman come to you? And he said to them, You know the man, and his complaint.
And Jehovah was not willing to destroy the house of David, for the sake of the covenant that He made with David, and as He had spoken, to give a lamp to him and to his sons all the days.
to turn aside the judgment of the poor ones, the afflicted one from judgment, and to take away justice of the afflicted one of My people; that widows may be their prey; that they may plunder orphans.
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out from the waters of Judah, who swear by Jehovah’s name and make mention by the God of Israel, not in truth or in righteousness.
No one calls for righteousness, and no one judges with truth. Trusting in emptiness, and speaking vanity, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
And I will number you to the sword; and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because I called and you did not answer. I spoke, and you did not hear; and you did the evil in My eyes; and you chose that in which I had no pleasure.
I also will choose their wanton dealings; and I will bring their fears to them; because I called, and not one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear. But they did the evil in My eyes, and chose that in which I had no pleasure.
Jehovah has given you to be priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be overseers in the house of Jehovah, over every man being mad who prophesies, that you should put him into the stocks and into the torture collar.
But you shall say to them, This is the nation that does not obey the voice of Jehovah their God, and does not receive instruction. Truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouth.
The days of her calling to account have come; Israel shall know the days of her retribution. The prophet is a fool, the man of spirit is mad, for great is your iniquity and your hatred much.
The godly one has perished from the earth, and the upright one is not among mankind. All of them lie in wait for blood; each man hunts his brother with a net.
Then the Jews said to Him, Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets, and You say, If anyone keeps My Word, he will not taste of death into the age, not ever!