Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back.”’

Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he lives in thick darkness.

Now you say, ‘Go and say to your master, “Elijah is back,”’ but he will kill me.”

The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

Go and tell them, ‘Return to your tents!’

the descendants of Immer: 1,052;

From the descendants of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

the descendants of Immer, 1,052;

He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.

He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.

“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher, “All of these things are futile!”

There will be no prosperity for the wicked,” says the Lord.

There will be no prosperity,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad asked him, “What did Elisha tell you?” Hazael replied, “He told me you would surely recover.”

But they said, “You’re lying! Tell us what he said.” So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘I have designated you as king over Israel.’”

Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and said to me, “Say: This is what the Lord says: ‘This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.

Say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The prince will raise this burden in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel within it.’

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Will you defile yourselves like your fathers and engage in prostitution with detestable idols?