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The answer will be: ‘They rejected the promise [a] of the Lord their God. They worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”

10 Don’t cry for the dead.
Don’t shake your heads at them.
Cry bitterly for those who are taken away,
because they won’t come back to see their homeland.

11 This is what the Lord says about King Josiah’s son Shallum, who succeeded his father as king of Judah and left this place: He will never come back here again.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:9 Or “covenant.”

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