But Jehovah would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he had promised him to give him always a lamp for his sons.

And Jehovah was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he would not destroy them, neither did he cast them from his presence up to that time.

Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.

And Jehovah sent against him the bands of the Chaldeans, and the bands of the Syrians, and the bands of the Moabites, and the bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spoke through his servants the prophets.