When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants<n id="1" /> and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way.<n id="2" />p>

They did not audit the treasurers who disbursed<n id="1" /> the funds to the foremen, for they were honest.<n id="2" />

They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, &#8220;If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

But the chief adviser said to them, &#8220;My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you.<n id="1" /> His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, &#8220;What did these men say? Where do they come from?&#8221; Hezekiah replied, &#8220;They come from the distant land of Babylon.&#8221;