17 And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules,

2 ^cIn the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, ^dShishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem

4 and commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, and to keep the law and the commandment.

10 ^ewhenever a case comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, concerning bloodshed, law or commandment, statutes or rules, then you shall warn them, that they may not incur guilt before the Lord and ^fwrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

9 And ^lproclamation was made throughout Judah and Jerusalem to bring in for the Lord ^hthe tax that Moses the servant of God laid on Israel in the wilderness.

4 But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, ^k“Fathers shall not die because of their children, nor children die because of their fathers, but each one shall die for his own sin.”

6 And slaughter the Passover lamb, and ^pconsecrate yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to the word of the Lord by¹ Moses.”