For, I, know thy perverseness, and thy stiff neck, - lo! while I am yet alive with you to-day, ye are, quarrelling, with Yahweh, and how much more after my death?

I, know, that there will enter, after my departure, grievous wolves into your midst, not sparing the little flock;

Yea, I will give diligence also, that, at every time, ye may be able, after my own departure, to be keeping up the remembrance of, these very things.

The princes of judah

But he declined the counsel of the old men, which they gave him, - and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who were standing before him.

He too, walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, - for, his mother, became his counselor, to work lawlessness.

She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:

A revealer of secrets, is one who goeth about talebearing, therefore, with him who openeth his lips, shalt thou not have fellowship.

Like tying a stone to a sling, so, is he that giveth honour, to a dullard.

A man who flattereth his neighbour, spreadeth, a net, over his steps.

And, them who are ready to deal lawlessly with a covenant, will he make impious by flatteries, - but, the people who know their God, will be strong and act with effect.

Then the king

When a ruler giveth heed to the word of falsehood, all his attendants, become lawless.

General references

And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days, - whereunto, Jehoiada the priest, instructed him:

added this also unto all, - he locked up John in prison.