For I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my death.

For I am sure of this: that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, which will not spare the flock.

I will enforce, therefore, that on every side ye might have wherewith to stir up the remembrance of these things after my departing.

The princes of judah

But he left the counsel which the elders gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were nursed up with him and had stand in his presence,

And he walked also in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for to do evil.

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

Meddle not with him that betrayeth secrets, and is a slanderer, and deceiveth with his lips.

He that setteth a fool in high dignity, that is even as if a man would bind a stone in a sling.

Whoso flattereth his neighbour, layeth a net for his feet.

And such as break the covenant shall he flatter with fair words. But the people that will know their God, shall have the overhand and prosper.

Then the king

If a prince delight in lies, all his servants are ungodly.

General references

And he did that pleased the LORD, as long as Jehoiada the Priest informed him.

added this above all, and laid John in prison.