And because of the word, Ahab was pierced with sorrow before the Lord, and he both went weeping, and tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his body, and fasted; he put on sackcloth also in the day that he smote Naboth the Jezreelite, and went his way.

Have you seen how Ahab has been pricked [to the heart] before Me? I will not bring on the evil in his days, but in his son's days will I bring on the evil.

And the Lord said to Jehu, Because of all your deeds in which you have acted well in doing that which was right in My eyes, according to all things which you have done to the house of Ahab, [as they were] in My heart, your sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days that Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not as David his father: he did according to all things that his father Joash did.

They seek Me day by day, and desire to know My ways, as a people that had done righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of their God; they now ask of Me righteous judgment, and desire to draw near to God,

'These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and they honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far away from Me.

Then all the nobles, and all the people who had entered into the covenant, [engaging] to set free everyone of his male and female slaves, [changed their minds],

and gave them over to be male and female slaves.

[This is] the word that came from the Lord to Jeremiah, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with the people, to proclaim a release:

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His ordinances with all [his] heart and with all [his] soul, to confirm the words of this covenant; [even] [all] the things written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.

were urgent with their brothers, and bound them under a curse, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in the law of God, which was given by the hand of Moses, the servant of God; to keep and to do all the commandments of the Lord, and His judgments, and His ordinances.

Vow, and pay [your vows] to the Lord our God; all that are round about Him shall bring gifts,

I have sworn and determined to keep the judgments of Your righteousness.

so that it is evil with you; yet have you come, and stood before Me in the house which is called by My name, and you have said, We have refrained from doing all these abominations.

Is My house, which is called by My name, a den of robbers in your eyes? And behold, I have seen [it], says the Lord.