^29 (A)So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.” ³⁰ When the king heard the words of the woman, ^(B)he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth ^[a]beneath on his ^[b]body. ³¹ Then he said, “May ^(C)God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat ^[c]remains on him today.”

³² Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and ^(D)the elders were sitting with him. And the king sent a man from his presence; but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, “Do you ^(E)see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and ^[d]hold the door shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?” ³³ While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him and he said, “^(F)Behold, this evil is from the Lord; why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”

^7 (A)He also overlaid the house with gold—the beams, the thresholds and its walls and its doors; and he ^(B)carved cherubim on the walls.