²³ And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.’^{[a] 24} And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed him^[b] have spoken about and proclaimed these days. ²⁵ You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’^[c]