But the angel of YY said to Eliyah-yahu the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Shomron, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not an Elohim in Yisrael, that ye go to enquire of Baalzebub the Elohim of Ekron?
And it came to pass after many days, that the word of YY came to Eliyah-yahu in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Achav; and I will send rain upon the earth.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth Elohim respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Yoav, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
But Zadok the kohen, and Benaiah the son of Yhoyada, and Natan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with AdoniYAH.
Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Shmuel the seer, and in the book of Natan the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer,
Then came Yeshayah-yahu the prophet unto king Hizkiyah-yahu, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hizkiyah-yahu said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Bavel.