Blessed be the Lord your God, who took pleasure in you, to set you upon His throne for a king, to the Lord your God; forasmuch as the Lord your God loved Israel to establish them forever, therefore He has set you over them for a king, to execute judgment and justice.

Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

[saying], Let us break through Their bonds, and cast away Their yoke from us.

Then shall He speak to them in His anger, and trouble them in His fury.

We will go up against Judah, and having conferred with them we will turn them away to our side, and we will make the son of Tabel king over it;

thus says the Lord of hosts, This counsel shall not abide, nor come to pass.

For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.

His government shall be great, and of His peace there is no end; [it shall be] upon the throne of David, and [upon] His kingdom, to establish it, and to support [it] with judgment and with righteousness, from this time forward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'

Nevertheless bring here those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, and slay [them] before me.'"

And Zerah the Ethiopian went out against them, with a force of a million, and three hundred chariots; and came to Mareshah.

And Asa cried to the Lord his God, and said, O Lord, it is not impossible with You to save by many or by few: strengthen us, O Lord our God; for we trust in You, and in Your name we have come up against this great multitude. O Lord our God, let not man prevail against You.

And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, are not You God in heaven above, and are not You Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? And [is there] not in Your hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist You?

O Lord our God, will You not judge them? For we have no strength to resist this great multitude that has come against us; and we know not what we shall do to them, but our eyes are toward You.

A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength.

And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.

And the king took counsel, and went, and made two golden heifers, and said to the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold, [here are] your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

[This translation omits this verse.]

Cast off your calf, O Samaria; My anger is kindled against them: how long will they be unable to purge themselves in Israel?

Seeing the workman made it, and it is not God; for your calf, O Samaria, was a deceiver.