Therefore... — As a punishment for this insult to Yahweh.

Now therefore — for this act of faithlessness, and to prove by the event that there is a God in Israel, whose oracle is unerring. …

Now therefore thus saith the Lord
Jehovah, the only true God:

you shall not come down from that b…

When Ahaziah rebelled against the Lord, Moab revolted from him. Sin weakens and impoverishes us. Man's revolt from God is often punished by the reb…