And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant fear the LORD from my youth.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him a hundred silver coins: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what you owe.
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? Bring me a penny, that I may see it.
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
And on the next day when he departed, he took out two silver coins, and gave them to the host, and said to him, Take care of him; and whatever you spend more, when I come again, I will repay you.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a silver coin, and three measures of barley for a silver coin; and see that you do not harm the oil and the wine.