for I -- I have known thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck; lo, in my being yet alive with you to-day, rebellious ye have been with Jehovah, and also surely after my death.

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

and I will be diligent that also at every time ye have, after my outgoing, power to make to yourselves the remembrance of these things.

The princes of judah

And he forsaketh the counsel of the aged men that they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, those standing before him,

he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver with his lips make not thyself surety.

As one who is binding a stone in a sling, So is he who is giving honour to a fool.

A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

And those acting wickedly against the covenant, he defileth by flatteries; and the people knowing their God are strong, and have wrought.

Then the king

A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

General references

and Jehoash doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah all his days in which Jehoiada the priest directed him,

added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.