'Errand' in the Bible

And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,so the slacker is to the one who sends him on an errand.