16 And the people answered and said, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord, so as to serve other gods. 17 The Lord our God, he is God; he brought up us and our fathers from Egypt, and kept us in all the way wherein we walked, and among all the nations *24. 17 Gr. whom we passed through them. Hebraism See Mark 1. 7; Luke 3. 16; 1 Pet. 2. 24.through whom we passed.