And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.

So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.

And in the letter she said, Let a time of public sorrow be fixed, and put Naboth at the head of the people;

So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.