“And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua…And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works...
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the...