¹⁸ Regarding this matter may the Lord forgive your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and ^(A)he leans on my hand and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord please forgive your servant in this matter.”

¹⁷ Now the king appointed ^(A)the royal officer on whose hand he leaned ^[a]to be in charge of the gate; but the people trampled on him at the gate, and he died, just as the man of God had said, ^(B)who spoke when the king came down to him.

¹⁹ At that time the royal officer had responded to the man of God and said, “Now even if ^(A)the Lord were to make windows in heaven, could such a thing as this happen?” And he had said, “Behold, you are going to see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat ^[a]any of it.”