¹¹ and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,

^12 (A)“And because you listen to these rules and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you ^(B)the covenant and the steadfast love that he swore to your fathers. ¹³ He will ^(C)love you, bless you, and multiply you. ^(D)He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your wine and your oil, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock, in the land that he swore to your fathers to give you. ¹⁴ You shall be blessed above all peoples. ^(E)There shall not be male or female barren among you or among your livestock. ¹⁵ And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and none of the evil ^(F)diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict on you, but he will lay them on all who hate you. ¹⁶ And ^(G)you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. ^(H)Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(I)a snare to you.

¹⁷ “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ ^18 (J)you shall not be afraid of them but you shall ^(K)remember what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,

¹⁰ And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.

¹¹ “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, ^12 (A)lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, ¹³ and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, ^14 (B)then your heart be lifted up, and you ^(C)forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ¹⁵ who ^(D)led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, ^(E)with its fiery serpents and scorpions ^(F)and thirsty ground where there was no water, ^(G)who brought you water out of the flinty rock, ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with ^(H)manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, ^(I)to do you good in the end. ¹⁷ Beware ^(J)lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ ¹⁸ You shall remember the Lord your God, for ^(K)it is he who gives you power to get wealth, ^(L)that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. ¹⁹ And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, ^(M)I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. ²⁰ Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, ^(N)so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

^10 (A)I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.^{[a] 11 (B)}And I adorned you with ornaments and ^(C)put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck. ¹² And I put a ring on your nose and earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. ¹³ Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. ^(D)You ate fine flour and honey and oil. ^(E)You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty. ¹⁴ And ^(F)your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

^15 (G)“But you trusted in your beauty ^(H)and played the whore^[b] because of your renown ^(I)and lavished your whorings^[c] on any passerby; your beauty^[d] became his. ¹⁶ You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.^{[e] 17} You also took ^(J)your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and ^(K)made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore. ¹⁸ And you took your embroidered garments to cover them, ^(L)and set my oil and my incense before them. ^19 (M)Also my bread that I gave you—^(N)I fed you with fine flour and oil and honey—you set before them for ^(O)a pleasing aroma; and so it was, declares the Lord God. ^20 (P)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and ^(Q)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter

²³ And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, ^(A)only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. ^24 (B)Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter ^(C)the kingdom of God.”

Othniel

^7 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and ^(B)the Asheroth.