and sending them to Bethlehem, said—Go search out accurately concerning the child,—and, as soon as ye find it, bring report unto me, that, I also, may come and bow myself down to it.
Then sent Jezebel a messenger unto Elijah, saying,—So, let the gods do, and, so, let them add, if, by this time to-morrow, I make not thy life as the life of one of them.
Then said Absolom and all the men of Israel, Better, is the counsel of Hushai the Archite, than the counsel of Ahithophel. Yahweh, indeed, had given charge to frustrate the wise counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring upon Absolom, ruin.
Now, they, hearing the king, went, and lo! the star which they had seen in the east, was going before them, until it went and stood over where the child was;