Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

Foreigners are powerless before me; ¹  when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. ² 

If they obey and serve him, they live out their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. ¹ 

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, ¹  and expire without knowledge.

I will boast ¹  in the Lord; let the oppressed hear and rejoice! ² 

ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

Come, let’s go down and confuse ¹  their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” ² 

Then you must delegate ¹  some of your authority ²  to him, so that the whole community of the Israelites will be obedient. ³ 

The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. ¹  Foreigners are powerless ²  before me;

But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’” ¹  says the Lord.

You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.

¹ Moses answered again, ²  “And if ³  they do not believe me or pay attention to me, ⁴  but say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you’?”

“If ¹  they do not believe you or pay attention to ²  the former sign, then they may ³  believe the latter sign. ⁴ 

Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you. ¹ 

Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ¹  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ²  will hear about it and be afraid.

Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost ¹  that was at Geba and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul alerted ²  all the land saying, “Let the Hebrews pay attention!”

Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive: ¹ 

Then the Lord said to me, ¹  “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. ¹  If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them ²  as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing. ³