2 At that Jezʹe·bel sent a messenger to E·liʹjah, saying: “So may the gods* do,+ and so may they add to it,+ if at this time tomorrow I shall not make your soul like the soul of each one of them!”

7 How can I forgive you* for this very thing? Your own sons have left me, and they keep swearing+ by what is no God.*+ And I kept satisfying them,+ but they continued committing adultery,+ and to the house of a prostitute woman they go in troops.