For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
It was but a little that I passed from them,\par\tab When I found him whom my soul loveth:\par\tab I held him, and would not let him go,\par\tab Until I had brought him into my mother's house,\par\tab And into the chamber of her that conceived me.\par
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.\par
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them, {\cf6 Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.}
Jesus answered and said unto him, {\cf6 If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Therefore Jehovah, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.