Since, according to David's final instructions, the list above contains the total number of descendants of Levi from the age of 20 years and upward,

But what the wicked look for will fail; their way of escape will be taken away from them; their only hope is to take their final breath."

A third of you will die by pestilence, starving because of the famine in your midst. Another third will die violently by the violence of war around you. The final third I'll scatter to the wind as I unsheathe my sword to pursue them.

"So now, you dishonored and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come in this time of final punishment,

"Because of your undying hatred, you kept on making the Israelis experience abuse during the time of their calamity, even when they were in their final stages of punishment,

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person becomes worse than the first. That's just what will happen to this evil generation!"

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all go in and settle there. And so the final condition of that person is worse than the first."