⁴³ Sullen and angry,^(A) the king of Israel went to his palace in Samaria.

⁴ So Ahab went home, sullen and angry^(A) because Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my ancestors.” He lay on his bed sulking and refused^(B) to eat.

¹² Afterward Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered^(A) in grief, ¹³ and told Zeresh^(B) his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.

His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall^(C) has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”^(D)

¹³ But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate.^(A)”

⁸ The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the Lord, but I hate^(A) him because he never prophesies anything good^(B) about me, but always bad. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.”

“The king should not say such a thing,” Jehoshaphat replied.