²⁸ But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

²² Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

²⁶ For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

¹³ And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the Lord God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.