13 Only it will not be all the kingdom that I shall rip away.+ One tribe I shall give to your son, for the sake of David my servant+ and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”+

10 As for us, Jehovah is our God,+ and we have not left him; but priests are ministering to Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and also the Levites in the work.+

5 And Am·a·ziʹah proceeded to collect Judah together and to have them stand according to the house of the forefathers,+ by the chiefs of thousands+ and by the chiefs of hundreds+ for all Judah and Benjamin; and he went on to register them from twenty+ years of age upward, and finally he found them [to be] three hundred thousand choice men going out to the army, handling lance+ and large shield.+

12 “With lying, Eʹphra·im has surrounded me,+ and with deception the house of Israel. But Judah is yet roaming with God,*+ and with the Most Holy One* he is trustworthy.”*