¹⁶ I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.^(A)

¹⁷ Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land,^(A) for I am giving it to you.”^(B)

²⁴ God heard their groaning and he remembered^(A) his covenant^(B) with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

²⁵ So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned^(A) about them.

²⁷ And since the Lord had not said he would blot out^(A) the name of Israel from under heaven, he saved^(B) them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.