If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."

You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the LORD.

So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

But the LORD reprimanded Moses and Aaron. He said, "Because you did not have enough faith to acknowledge my holy power before the people of Israel, you will not lead them into the land that I promised to give them."

Now, in every generation some of your descendants will die a violent death because you have disobeyed me and have taken Uriah's wife.

You sinned in secret, but I will make this happen in broad daylight for all Israel to see.' "

and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, "The LORD says that you disobeyed him and did not do what he commanded.

Instead, you returned and ate a meal in a place he had ordered you not to eat in. Because of this you will be killed, and your body will not be buried in your family grave."

The LORD corrects those he loves, as parents correct a child of whom they are proud.

I rebuke and punish all whom I love. Be in earnest, then, and turn from your sins.