²¹ and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat^(A) the Lord and seek^(B) the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’ ²² And many peoples and powerful nations will come to Jerusalem to seek the Lord Almighty and to entreat him.”^(C)

¹² I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal,^(A) and I have not sought the Lord’s favor.^(B)’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.”

⁹ “Now plead with God to be gracious to us. With such offerings^(A) from your hands, will he accept^(B) you?”—says the Lord Almighty.