2 Meqabyan 5:1-18
1He died leaving his children who were small, and they grew up as their father taught them. They kept the order of their house and cared for all their kindred; they did not make the poor cry, nor the widows, nor the orphan.
2They feared the Lord and gave alms to the poor. They kept all the trusts their father told them. They comforted the orphans and widows in their trouble, acting as their mother and father. They rescued them from the hands of those who wronged them and calmed them from all the disturbance and sadness they found.
3They lived for five years while doing these things.
4After this, the Chaldean king, Tseerutsaydan, came. He destroyed their whole country, captured the children of Meqabees, and destroyed all their villages.
5He plundered all their money. The invaders lived firmly in all evil works and sin - in adultery, insult, and greed, not thinking of their Creator. Those who did not live by the Law of God and His Command, and who worshipped idols, seized them and took them to their own country.
6They ate what a beast had bitten, blood, and carcasses - everything that a scavenger kills and casts away, all that the Lord does not love. They had no order from the true Commands written in the Law.
7They did not know the Lord their Creator, who brought them forth from their mothers' wombs and fed them what was due, and who was their Medicine.
8They married their aunts and their father's wives; they turned to robbery, evil, sin, and adultery. They have no order in the time of Judgment. They work all evil; they marry their aunts and sisters and have no Law.
9All their roads are dark and slippery, and their work is sin and adultery.
10But the children of Meqabees kept their Order; they would not eat what a scavenger killed nor what was found dead. They would not do the works that the children of the Chaldeans did, for many of their works are evil and were not written in this book.
11All the works the Lord God loves were not found among them.
12Furthermore, they would worship an idol called Baal-Peor; they trusted it as if it were the Lord their Creator, even though it was deaf and dumb. For it is an idol that a human hand worked; it is the work of a smith who works silver and gold - it has no breath or knowledge, and it has nothing it can see or hear.
13It does not eat or drink.
14It does not kill or save.
15It does not plant or uproot.
16It does not harm its enemy or benefit its friend.
17It does not impoverish or honor.
18It is a hindrance that misleads the lazy Chaldeans; yet it does not chastise or forgive.