and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a disease caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

But how did God reply to him? "I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have never bent their knees to Baal."

Let their eyes be darkened, so they cannot see, and forever bend their backs beneath the load."

for the Scripture says: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord, 'every knee shall bend before me, and every tongue shall make acknowledgment to God.'"