Gehazi said, ‘It’s all right. My master has sent me to say, “I have just now discovered that two young men from the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them thirty-five kilograms of silver and two sets of clothing.” ’
So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, ‘Where did these men come from and what did they say to you? ’ Hezekiah replied, ‘They came from a distant country, from Babylon.’
Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease broke out on his forehead.
Saul’s uncle asked him and his servant, ‘Where did you go? ’ ‘To look for the donkeys,’ Saul answered. ‘When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.’