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22 Their terrible fate will become proverbial, so that the Judean exiles will curse someone by saying, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon burned alive!’

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Anyone who refuses to obey will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”

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15 Your name will be a curse word among my people,
    for the Sovereign Lord will destroy you
    and will call his true servants by another name.

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21 So they tied them up and threw them into the furnace, fully dressed in their pants, turbans, robes, and other garments.

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22 If anyone does not love the Lord, that person is cursed. Our Lord, come![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 16:22 From Aramaic, Marana tha. Some manuscripts read Maran atha, “Our Lord has come.”

11 Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate replied, “We are witnesses! May the Lord make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

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20 So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “The people of Israel will use your names when they give a blessing. They will say, ‘May God make you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way, Jacob put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

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