The king sent word to Rehum, B’el T’em, and to Shimshai, the scribe, and to others that were in the counsel of them, to the dwellers of Samaria, and to others beyond the flood, and said, Health and peace.
and it was commanded of me, and they reckoned, and they found, that that city rebelleth of eld [or old] days against kings, and dissensions and battles be raised therein;