⁹ Also ^(A)Conaniah, his brothers Shemaiah and Nethanel, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave to the Levites for Passover offerings five thousand from the flock and five hundred cattle.

²¹ Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: ^(A)“Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. ^22 (B)For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. ²³ But this is what I commanded them, saying, ^(C)‘Obey My voice, and ^(D)I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ ^24 (E)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but ^(F)followed^[a] the counsels and the ^[b]dictates of their evil hearts, and ^(G)went^[c] backward and not forward. ²⁵ Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even ^(H)sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. ^26 (I)Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but ^(J)stiffened their neck. ^(K)They did worse than their fathers.

²⁷ “Therefore ^(L)you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not obey you. You shall also call to them, but they will not answer you.

Judgment on Obscene Religion

²⁸ “So you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the Lord their God ^(M)nor receive correction. ^(N)Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.

¹⁰ And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me ^(A)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.

¹² Then they faithfully brought in the offerings, the tithes, and the dedicated things; ^(A)Cononiah the Levite had charge of them, and Shimei his brother was the next.