Herod’s Violent Death

²⁰ Now Herod had been very angry with the people of ^(A)Tyre and Sidon; but they came to him with one accord, and having made Blastus ^[a]the king’s personal aide their friend, they asked for peace, because ^(B)their country was ^[b]supplied with food by the king’s country.

⁷ They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and ^(A)food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to ^(B)Joppa, ^(C)according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

²¹ “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago ^(A)in sackcloth and ashes. ²² But I say to you, ^(B)it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

¹⁷ Judah and the land of Israel were your traders. They traded for your merchandise wheat of ^(A)Minnith, millet, honey, oil, and ^(B)balm.

⁸ So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than ^(A)the sons of light.

³¹ Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? ³² Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.

¹⁶ since those days, ^(A)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. ^17 (B)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(C)in all the labors of your hands; ^(D)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.

⁸ Go up to the ^(A)mountains and bring wood and build the ^[a]temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. ^9 (B)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(C)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(D)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. ¹¹ For I ^(E)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^(F)all the labor of your hands.”

Israel Did Not Accept Correction