If you should afflict him at all, then if he cries out to me at all, I shall unfailingly hear his outcry; and my anger will indeed blaze, and I shall certainly kill you with the sword, and your wives must become widows and your sons fatherless boys. ”
उनके इस अपराध और दूसरे कई पापों के लिए यहोवा परमेश्‍वर ने अपने नबियों के ज़रिए उन्हें कई तरह की चेतावनियाँ दीं ।