So the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Notice, please, and see how this man seeks evil, for he sent to me for my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold; and I have not withheld from him.

lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, in order to accuse Him.

But he said, As Jehovah lives, before whom I stand, I shall take nothing. And he pressed him to take it, but he refused.

And when they pressed him till he was ashamed, he said, Send! So they sent fifty men, and they searched for three days but did not find him.

So it was, whenever they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up and put it in bags, and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.

The burden concerning the beasts of the south. Into the land of trouble and anguish, from where the lioness and the lion come; the viper, and the fiery flying serpent; they carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.