⁸ Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

² Ahaziah was twenty-two^[a] years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.

³ He too followed^(A) the ways of the house of Ahab,^(B) for his mother encouraged him to act wickedly.

²⁴ She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?”

“The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.

Athaliah and Joash^(A)

11 When Athaliah^(B) the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.

² So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely,^(A) if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”^(B)

¹³ Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord? I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water.

⁴ While Jezebel^(A) was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden^(B) them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied^(C) them with food and water.)

⁸⁴ These were the offerings of the Israelite leaders for the dedication of the altar when it was anointed:^(A) twelve silver plates, twelve silver sprinkling bowls^(B) and twelve gold dishes.^{(C) 85} Each silver plate weighed a hundred and thirty shekels, and each sprinkling bowl seventy shekels. Altogether, the silver dishes weighed two thousand four hundred shekels,^[a] according to the sanctuary shekel.^(D)