¹⁷ Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died,^(A) just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.

¹⁹ The officer had said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(A) of the heavens, could this happen?” The man of God had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

²⁰ And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe^(A) into the storehouse,^(B) that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates^(C) of heaven and pour out^(D) so much blessing^(E) that there will not be room enough to store it.^(F)