¹⁴ I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. When he commits iniquity, I will punish him with a rod such as mortals use, with blows inflicted by human beings.^(A)

⁹ “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.^(A)

⁶ Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.^(A)

¹⁹ I the Lord am your God; follow my statutes, be careful to observe my ordinances,^(A)

¹⁷ withholds his hand from iniquity,^[a] takes no advance or accrued interest, observes my ordinances, and follows my statutes, he shall not die for his father’s iniquity; he shall surely live.

¹³ And the Lord says: Because they have forsaken my law that I set before them and have not obeyed my voice or walked in accordance with it^{(A) 14} but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.^{(B) 15} Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood and giving them poisonous water to drink.^{(C) 16} I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.^(D)