because the great day of their ¹  wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?” ² 

everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, ¹  and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

Even if only a tenth of the people remain in the land, it will again be destroyed, ¹  like one of the large sacred trees ²  or an Asherah pole, when a sacred pillar on a high place is thrown down. ³  That sacred pillar symbolizes the special chosen family.” ⁴ 

However, I will leave some of these wicked people alive and banish them to other places. But wherever these people who survive may go, they will wish they had died rather than lived,” ¹  says the Lord who rules over all. ² 

“And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what you have said: “Our rebellious acts and our sins have caught up with us, ¹  and we are wasting away because of them. How then can we live?”’

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa. ¹ 

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, ¹  like a hut ²  that a watchman has made.

For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, ¹  and it would uproot ²  all my harvest.

They will not be ashamed when hard times come; ¹  when famine comes they will have enough to eat. ² 

Better is one handful with some rest than two hands full of toil ¹  and chasing the wind.

There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them. ¹ 

So if ¹  Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

And if Satan rises against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand and his end has come.

All the people who are determined to go and settle in Egypt will die from war, starvation, or disease. No one will survive or escape the disaster I will bring on them.’

and also seven ¹  of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, ²  to preserve their offspring ³  on the face of the earth.

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us ¹  so that we may live ²  and not die.” ³ 

“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of ¹  their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ ²  iniquities which are with them.

Who is there from the entire human race ¹  who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

As for the cities of these peoples that ¹  the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing ²  to survive.

No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.