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So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

but you shall fear the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm; you shall bow yourselves to him, and to him you shall sacrifice.

but you shall fear the LORD your God, and he will deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies."

However they would not listen, but they did according to their former manner.

For he held fast to the LORD; he did not depart from following him, but kept the commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.

because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded; they neither listened nor obeyed.

But if you say to me, "We rely on the LORD our God," is it not he whose high places and altars Hezeki'ah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, "You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem"?

But the Rab'shakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and to drink their own urine?"

But the people were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, "Do not answer him."

and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they were destroyed.

"But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

But they did not listen, and Manas'seh seduced them to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josi'ah his son king in his stead.

But no accounting shall be asked from them for the money which is delivered into their hand, for they deal honestly."

But as to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, thus shall you say to him, Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Regarding the words which you have heard,

However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brethren.

but in the eighteenth year of King Josi'ah this passover was kept to the LORD in Jerusalem.

And Pharaoh Neco made Eli'akim the son of Josi'ah king in the place of Josi'ah his father, and changed his name to Jehoi'akim. But he took Jeho'ahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

And Jehoi'akim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

But the army of the Chalde'ans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.