¹² Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

⁴ And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

¹⁴ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

⁴ But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

¹² And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

⁵⁸ I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

²² Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

⁶ Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: