³¹ Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh, “This day we perceive that the Lord is ^(A)among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.”

² And he went out ^[a]to meet Asa, and said to him: “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. ^(A)The Lord is with you while you are with Him. ^(B)If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but ^(C)if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

^25 [a]And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report ^(A)that God is truly among you.

^23 (A)“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

²³ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘In those days ten men ^(A)from every language of the nations shall ^(B)grasp the ^[a]sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard ^(C)that God is with you.” ’ ”

¹⁰ And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that ^(A)the living God is among you, and that He will without fail ^(B)drive out from before you the ^(C)Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites: