So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
Numbers 32:15 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised If you turn back from following him, he will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people. American Standard Version (1901) For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people. Common English Bible If you turn away from him, he will turn away again to abandon Israel in the desert. Then you will destroy this entire people.” Catholic Public Domain Version But if you are not willing to follow him, he will leave the people behind in the wilderness, and you will have been the cause of all our deaths." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if you will not follow him he will leave the people in the wilderness: and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all. |
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, ‘Asa and all Judah and Benjamin, hear me. The Lord is with you when you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. You yourself will not escape from them, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon and this city will burn.” ’
Then they approached him and said, ‘We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.
Woe to the world because of offences. For offences will inevitably come, but woe to that person by whom the offence comes.
For if your brother or sister is hurt by what you eat, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy, by what you eat, someone for whom Christ died.
They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and told them,