16 And it came about when he spoke to him that [the king] immediately said to him: “Was it a counselor of the king that we constituted you?+ Quit for your own sake.+ Why should they strike you down?” Accordingly the prophet quit, but he said: “I certainly know that God has resolved to bring you to ruin,+ because you have done this+ and you have not listened to my counsel.”+

20 But Am·a·ziʹah did not listen; for it was from the [true] God+ for the purpose of giving them into his hand, because they had searched for the gods of Eʹdom.+