20 For it proved to be Jehovah’s course to let their hearts become stubborn+ so as to declare war against Israel, in order that he might devote them to destruction, that they might come to have no favorable consideration,+ but in order that he might annihilate them, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses.+

15 And the king did not listen to the people,+ because the turn of affairs took place at the instance of Jehovah,+ in order that he might indeed carry out his word+ that Jehovah had spoken by means of A·hiʹjah+ the Shiʹlo·nite to Jer·o·boʹam the son of Neʹbat.