For it was according to the Lord's anger against Jerusalem and on Judah, until He cast them out of His presence, that Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon.

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Moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying,

And he shall take of the royal seed, and shall make a covenant with him, and shall bind him with an oath; and he shall take the princes of the land,

And [if] he shall revolt from him, to send his messengers into Egypt, that [they] may give him horses and much people; shall he prosper? Shall he that acts as an adversary be preserved? And shall he that transgresses the covenant be preserved?

And Pharaoh shall make war upon him not with a large force or great multitude, in throwing up a mound, and in building of forts, to cut off souls.

Therefore say, Thus says the Lord: [As] I live, surely My oath which he has profaned, and My covenant which he has transgressed, I will even recompense it upon his head.

And Joshua made peace with them, and they made a covenant with them to preserve them; and the princes of the congregation swore to them.

And the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall not be able to touch them.

This we will do: take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.

So King David called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites are not the children of Israel, but [are] of the remnant of the Amorite, and the children of Israel had sworn to them; but Saul sought to smite them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah).

And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Hoshea, in that he sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year. And the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison house.

But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not hearken to Your commandments,

and refused to listen, and remembered not Your wonders which You worked among them. And they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, long-suffering, and abundant in mercy, and You did not forsake them.

I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze.

And when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, his heart was hardened, and he did not hearken to them, as the Lord said.

And Pharaoh hardened his heart, even on this occasion, and he would not send the people away.

Do you then yet exert yourself to hinder My people, so as not to let them go?

And You testified against them, to bring them back to Your law; but they hearkened not, and sinned against Your commandments and Your judgments, which if a man does, he shall live in them; and they turned their back, and hardened their neck, and heard not.

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.