¹⁷ Now the king had put the officer on whose arm he leaned in charge of the gate, and the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died,^(A) just as the man of God had foretold when the king came down to his house.

² The officer on whose arm the king was leaning^(A) said to the man of God, “Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates^(B) of the heavens, could this happen?”

“You will see it with your own eyes,” answered Elisha, “but you will not eat^(C) any of it!”

³² Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders^(A) were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer^(B) is sending someone to cut off my head?^(C) Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

²⁹ How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God^(A) underfoot,^(B) who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant^(C) that sanctified them,^(D) and who has insulted the Spirit^(E) of grace?^(F)

³³ “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.^(A)

⁴³ They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily^[a] overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.