39 As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle, and a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Keep this man, and if by any means he goes missing, then your life shall be given for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’
40 As your servant was busy here and there, he disappeared.”And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have decided it yourself.”
41 He quickly took the ashes away from his face, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
42 He said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have let go out of your hand a man whom I had appointed to utter destruction, you shall pay for his life with your life and his people with your people.’ ”
43 The king of Israel went to his house in Samaria angry and depressed.