Then they said to one another, &#8220;It&#8217;s not right what we&#8217;re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven&#8217;t told anyone.<n id="1" /> If we wait until dawn,<n id="2" /> we&#8217;ll be punished.<n id="3" /> So come on, let&#8217;s go and inform the royal palace.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Some of the prophets<n id="1" /> said to Elisha, &#8220;Look, the place where we meet with you<n id="2" /> is too cramped<n id="3" /> for us.

<p class="bodytext">Now four men with a skin disease<n id="1" /> were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, &#8220;Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">They were absolutely terrified<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Look, two kings could not stop him!<n id="2" /> How can we?&#8221;<n id="3" />

So the palace supervisor,<n id="1" /> the city commissioner,<n id="2" /> the leaders,<n id="3" /> and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, &#8220;We are your subjects!<n id="4" /> Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Jehu encountered<n id="1" /> the relatives<n id="2" /> of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; They replied, &#8220;We are Ahaziah&#8217;s relatives. We have come down to see how<n id="3" /> the king&#8217;s sons and the queen mother&#8217;s sons are doing.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, &#8220;Speak to your servants in Aramaic,<n id="1" /> for we understand it. Don&#8217;t speak with us in the Judahite dialect<n id="2" /> in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, &#8216;When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.&#8217;&#8221;