4. I answered, “Very well, then. I will pray to the Lord our God, just as you have asked, and whatever he says, I will tell you. I will not keep back anything from you.”
5. Then they said to me, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not obey all the commands that the Lord our God gives you for us.
6. Whether it pleases us or not, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are asking you to pray. All will go well with us if we obey him.”
7. Ten days later the Lord spoke to me;
8. so I called together Johanan, all the army leaders who were with him, and all the other people.
9. I said to them, “The Lord, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me with your request has said,