So (A)Johanan the son of Kareah and all (B)the commanders of the forces and all the people did not obey the voice of the Lord, to remain in the land of Judah.

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So Johanan son of Kareah and all the army officers and all the people(A) disobeyed the Lord’s command(B) to stay in the land of Judah.(C)

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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you. 17 (B)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (C)the queen of heaven (D)and pour out drink offerings to her, (E)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

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16 “We will not listen(A) to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!(B) 17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:(C) We will burn incense(D) to the Queen of Heaven(E) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials(F) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.(G) At that time we had plenty of food(H) and were well off and suffered no harm.(I)

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