¹⁴ And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts lives, before Whom I stand, surely, were it not that I respect the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would neither look at you nor see you [King Joram].

¹⁵ But now bring me a minstrel. And while the minstrel played, the hand and power of the Lord came upon [Elisha].

¹⁶ And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this [dry] brook bed full of trenches.