²⁰ Ehud then approached him while he was sitting alone in the upper room of his palace^[a](A) and said, “I have a message from God for you.” As the king rose^(B) from his seat,

³⁹ As for the other events of Ahab’s reign, including all he did, the palace he built and adorned with ivory,^(A) and the cities he fortified, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel?

²² It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment,^(A) with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.