7 that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur.
8 When the king heard this news, he was astonished and very much shaken. Sick with grief because his designs had failed, he took to his bed.
9 There he remained many days, assailed by waves of grief, for he thought he was going to die.
10 So he called in all his Friends and said to them: “Sleep has departed from my eyes, and my heart sinks from anxiety.
11 I said to myself: ‘Into what tribulation have I come, and in what floods of sorrow am I now! Yet I was kindly and beloved in my rule.’
12 But I now recall the evils I did in Jerusalem, when I carried away all the vessels of silver and gold that were in it, and for no cause gave orders that the inhabitants of Judah be destroyed.
13 I know that this is why these evils have overtaken me; and now I am dying, in bitter grief, in a foreign land.”