24 And YOU must call upon the name of YOUR god,*+ and I, for my part, shall call upon the name of Jehovah; and it must occur that the [true] God* that answers by fire+ is the [true] God.”*+ To this all the people answered and said: “The thing is good.”

16 “And as for you, do not pray in behalf of this people, neither raise in their behalf an entreating cry or a prayer nor beseech me,+ for I shall not be listening to you.+