And they will call to the sons of Dan, and they will turn their faces and say to Micah, What to thee that thou criedst out?

And they will say to the king of Assur, saying, The nations which thou carriedst into exile, and thou wilt set in the cities of Shomeron, knew not the judgment of the God of the land, and he will send among them lions, and behold them slaying them because they knew not the judgment of the God of the land.

Then began he to blame the cities in which were his greatest powers, because they repented not.

And they were silent; for they discussed to one another in the way, who the greatest.

And there came up a conference among them, thus, which of them should be the greatest.

(By which the greatest and precious promises are bestowed upon us: that by these ye might be having escaped from the corruption in the world through eager desires.)