and sent you on a mission, saying, ‘Go and devote to destruction the sinful Amalekites. Fight against them until you have wiped them out.’
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for
Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?
In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.
Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.