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The Spirit of the Lord fell upon me at this time that I should answer my father and I said unto him, How is it that thou servest these idols of wood and stone, the handiwork of the craftsmen in which is neither life nor power to act?
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Can these which cannot deliver themselves from the hatchet deliver thee from the power of the enemy?
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Can they hear thy prayers when thou callest upon them from out of the midst of thine afflictions?
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Surely it is an evil thing that thou and thy people should serve these false gods for the Lord Jehovah, he is the God who created heaven and earth and all that in them is, and he hath commanded all men to worship him only and to serve him all their days.
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Behold, your fathers in the days before the great flood worshiped false idols after the same evil combination into which ye have entered and because of their perversions they were destroyed.
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Will ye also go on in their wickedness to bring down the wrath of the Most High God upon you that ye too should be destroyed from under heaven?
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Nay, my father, but repent of this evil and turn unto the Lord thy God and live.
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So saying, I took the hatchet from the hands of the remaining idol and smote him with it until he was destroyed