Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Yahweh said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our Elah, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our Elah was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.