that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and [that] you may lack nothing.

Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

Now it happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, that there was the woman whose son he had restored to life, appealing to the king for her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, "My lord, O king, this [is] the woman, and this [is] her son whom Elisha restored to life."

That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

"Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father's will.

"Now by chance a certain priest came down that road. And when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.