³ And they beat the gold into thin sheets and cut it into threads, to work it in with the blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and the fine linen, into artistic designs.

¹² then you shall cut off her hand; ^(A)your eye shall not pity her.

⁶ Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. ⁷ And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; ^(A)as I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

¹² So David ^(A)commanded his young men, and they executed them, cut off their hands and feet, and hanged them by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the ^(B)tomb of Abner in Hebron.

¹⁶ At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave ^[a]it to the king of Assyria.

The Captivity of Jerusalem

^13 (A)And he carried out from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house, and he ^(B)cut in pieces all the articles of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, ^(C)as the Lord had said.

²⁴ So Ahaz gathered the articles of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles of the house of God, ^(A)shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

²⁶ Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the ^(A)farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are ^(B)uncircumcised in the heart.”