¹⁴ Please, let the leaders of our entire assembly stand; and let all those in our cities who have taken pagan wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of their cities, until ^(A)the fierce wrath of our God is turned away from us in this matter.”

⁸ Now do not be ^(A)stiff-necked,^[a] as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the Lord; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the Lord your God, ^(B)that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

¹⁰ “Now it is in my heart to make ^(A)a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that His fierce wrath may turn away from us.

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, ^(A)“Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the Lord, out in the sun, ^(B)that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”

A Hymn of Praise

12 And ^(A)in that day you will say:

⁵ Then he set ^(A)judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city, ⁶ and said to the judges, “Take heed to what you are doing, for ^(B)you do not judge for man but for the Lord, ^(C)who is with you ^[a]in the judgment. ⁷ Now therefore, let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take care and do it, for ^(D)there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, no ^(E)partiality, nor taking of bribes.”

²⁶ Then they ^(A)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So ^(B)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called ^(C)the Valley of ^[a]Achor to this day.

¹⁸ “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one ^(A)before the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹ And ^(B)it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes,