¹⁹ They answered him, “Be quiet!^(A) Don’t say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest.^(B) Isn’t it better that you serve a tribe and clan^(C) in Israel as priest rather than just one man’s household?”

⁷ The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers^(A) and burned their city.

¹⁰ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good,^(A) and the wedding hall was filled with guests.