40. While your servant was busy here and there, he was gone.”Then the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.”
41. And he hastened to take the bandage away from his eyes; and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
42. Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have let slip out of your hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and your people for his people.’ ”
43. So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.