Will they not ¹  instruct you and ²  speak to you, and bring forth words ³  from their understanding? ⁴ 

They will come and tell about his saving deeds; ¹  they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished. ² 

Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey ¹  his commands.

Tie up the scroll as legal evidence, ¹  seal the official record of God’s instructions and give it to my followers. ² 

For these are rebellious people – they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord’s law. ¹ 

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? ¹ 

But reject foolish and ignorant ¹  controversies, because you know they breed infighting. ² 

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹  quarrels, and fights about the law, ²  because they are useless and empty.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘If any ¹  of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may ²  observe the Passover to the Lord.

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it – they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues ¹  of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” ¹  It was so.

“The priest who is anointed and ordained to act as high priest in place of his father ¹  is to make atonement. He is to put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

Your dead bodies ¹  will fall in this wilderness – all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

and your children will wander ¹  in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, ²  until your dead bodies lie finished ³  in the wilderness.

Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today. ¹ 

Furthermore, I am giving ¹  you what you did not request – riches and honor so that you will be the greatest king of your generation. ² 

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ¹ 

Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, followed by Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,