And the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, the fire burning in the hearth before him.

And Ehud came to him (now he was sitting upstairs in his cool roof chamber). And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. So he arose from his seat.

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, the ivory house which he built and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Therefore the Lord Jehovah says this: An enemy shall be all around the land. And he shall bring down your strength from you, and your fortresses shall be plundered.

For, behold, Jehovah gives a command, and He will strike the great house into pieces, and the little house with cracks.

Jehovah of Hosts said in my ears, Truly many big and pleasant houses shall be laid waste, without inhabitant.