Then he said, "May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!"

He was still talking to them when the messenger approached and said, "Look, the Lord is responsible for this disaster! Why should I continue to wait for the Lord to help?"

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, "We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn't even hear a man's voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up."

He went to Samaria and exterminated all the members of Ahab's family who were still alive in Samaria, just as the Lord had announced to Elijah.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. You will take turns guarding the palace.

By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash's reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,

Yet the Lord's great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.