Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people did not answer him a word.

On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

“For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me,
The fountain of living waters,
To hew for themselves cisterns,
Broken cisterns
That can hold no water.

When it is My desire, I will chastise them;
And the peoples will be gathered against them
When they are bound for their double guilt.

“As for you, son of man, make two ways for the sword of the king of Babylon to come; both of them will go out of one land. And make a signpost; make it at the head of the way to the city.

But I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better;

Two things I asked of You,
Do not refuse me before I die:

so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.

But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.