Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.For you ought to say,“ If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Amon was twenty- two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
I will tell my soul,“ Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’“ But God said to him,‘ You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared— whose will they be?’