[42:1] Then all the army leaders, including Johanan son of Kareah and Azariah son of Hoshaiah, came with people of every class
[42:2] and said to me, “Please do what we ask you! Pray to the Lord our God for us. Pray for all of us who have survived. Once there were many of us; but now only a few of us are left, as you can see.
[42:3] Pray that the Lord our God will show us the way we should go and what we should do.”
[42:4] I answered, “Very well, then. I will pray to the Lord our God, just as you have asked, and whatever he says, I will tell you. I will not keep back anything from you.”
[42:5] Then they said to me, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not obey all the commands that the Lord our God gives you for us.
[42:6] Whether it pleases us or not, we will obey the Lord our God, to whom we are asking you to pray. All will go well with us if we obey him.”