But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jerobo´am shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jerobo´am.
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.