⁷ As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized^(A) him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”

⁶ “A man came to meet us,” they replied. “And he said to us, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, “This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending messengers to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not leave^(A) the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!”’”

⁷ The king asked them, “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told you this?”

⁸ They replied, “He had a garment of hair^[a](B) and had a leather belt around his waist.”

The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”

⁸ If not, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who wear fine clothes are in kings’ palaces.

⁴ John’s^(A) clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist.^(B) His food was locusts^(C) and wild honey.

²⁹ About that time Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, and Ahijah^(A) the prophet of Shiloh met him on the way, wearing a new cloak. The two of them were alone out in the country,

¹⁸ They crossed at the ford to take the king’s household over and to do whatever he wished.

When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell prostrate before the king

⁴¹ After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground.^(A) Then they kissed each other and wept together—but David wept the most.

¹¹ and he said to Moses, “Please, my lord, I ask you not to hold against us the sin we have so foolishly committed.^(A)

¹⁸ His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him.^(A) “We are your slaves,”^(B) they said.