Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Wherefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

A wise man's heart {is} at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.

{As} an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, {so is} a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

He that walketh with wise {men} shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. {destroyed: Heb. broken}

Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves {of} gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? {Thinkest...: Heb. In thine eyes doth David, etc}

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

And Joseph {was} thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.