Now fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance, while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

They returned to him while he was staying at Jericho; and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?”

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him and he said, “Behold, this evil is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

So he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

The Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

So while these nations feared the Lord, they also served their idols; their children likewise and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, so they do to this day.

And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were besieging it.