2 Kings 22:20
20Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and ayou shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.2 Chronicles 35:24
24So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. bAll Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.Isaiah 57:1-2
Israel’s Futile Idolatry
1 The righteous man perishes,and no one lays it to heart;
cdevout men are taken away,
while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
2 dhe enters into peace;
they rest ein their beds
who walk in their uprightness.
Jeremiah 15:1
The Lord Will Not Relent
1Then the Lord said to me, f“Though gMoses hand Samuel istood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!Ezekiel 14:14-21
14 jeven if these three men, kNoah, lDaniel, and mJob, were in it, nthey would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness, declares the Lord God.15 o“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, pand it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts, 16even if these three men were in it, qas I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters. They alone would be delivered, but rthe land would be desolate.
17“Or sif I bring a sword upon that land and say, Let a sword pass through the land, tand I cut off from it man and beast, 18 uthough these three men were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they alone would be delivered.
19“Or vif I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast, 20even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live, declares the Lord God, they would deliver neither son nor daughter. They would deliver but their own lives by their righteousness.
21“For thus says the Lord God: How much more wwhen I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, xsword, yfamine, zwild beasts, and aapestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
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