The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Esther&#8217;s reply<n id="1" /> was conveyed to Mordecai,

<p class="poetry">They will come and tell about his saving deeds;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The heavens declare his fairness,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for God is judge.<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">and all people will fear.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">They will proclaim<n id="2" /> what God has done,p> <p class="poetry">and reflect on his deeds.p>

<p class="bodytext">They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

And<n id="1" /> on the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, two omers<n id="2" /> per person;<n id="3" /> and all the leaders<n id="4" /> of the community<n id="5" /> came and told<n id="6" /> Moses.

<p class="bodytext">Now it was reported to Saul, &#8220;Look, the army is sinning against the <sc>Lordsc> by eating even the blood.&#8221; He said, &#8220;All of you have broken the covenant!<n id="1" /> Roll a large stone over here to me.&#8221;

The king was told, &#8220;Nathan the prophet is here.&#8221; Nathan entered and bowed before the king with his face to the floor.<n id="1" />

The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, &#8220;Men are marching out of Samaria.&#8221;<n id="1" />

Messengers<n id="1" /> arrived and reported to Jehoshaphat, &#8220;A huge army is attacking you from the other side of the Dead Sea,<n id="2" /> from the direction of Edom.<n id="3" /> Look, they are in Hazezon Tamar (that is, En Gedi).&#8221;

<p class="poetry">But where, oh where, are your wise men?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Let them tell you, let them find outp> <p class="poetry">what the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies has planned for Egypt.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!p> <p class="poetry">Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we may examine them<n id="2" /> and see how they were fulfilled.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Or decree for us some future events!p>

<p class="bodytext">The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the royal secretary, for safekeeping.<n id="1" /> Then they went to the court and reported everything<n id="2" /> to the king.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">They said to the messengers who had come, &#8220;Here&#8217;s what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: &#8216;Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.&#8217;&#8221; When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.

Ask your own servants; they can tell you! May my servants find favor in your sight, for we have come<n id="1" /> at the time of a holiday. Please provide us &#8211; your servants<n id="2" /> and your son David &#8211; with whatever you can spare.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Three years later two of Shimei&#8217;s servants ran away to King Achish son of Maacah of Gath. Shimei was told, &#8220;Look, your servants are in Gath.&#8221;

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers<n id="1" /> of the city. They told them, &#8220;We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn&#8217;t even hear a man&#8217;s voice.<n id="2" /> But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up.&#8221;<n id="3" />

When they went back and told him, he said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned,<n id="1" /> &#8216;In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel&#8217;s flesh.

Messengers<n id="1" /> came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay in Jericho<n id="2" /> until your beards grow again; then you may come back.&#8221;p>