¹⁷ and if ye hearken not unto us to be circumcised, then we have taken our daughter, and have gone.'

²⁴ In time of security shall he come even on the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the strongholds, even for a time.