⁹ When David’s men arrived, they gave Nabal this message in David’s name. Then they waited.

⁷ “Let us build up these towns,” he said to Judah, “and put walls around them, with towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours, because we have sought the Lord our God; we sought him and he has given us rest^(A) on every side.” So they built and prospered.

¹⁵ The company^(A) of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, said, “The spirit^(B) of Elijah is resting on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.

⁴ and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month^(A) the ark came to rest on the mountains^(B) of Ararat.^(C)