¹⁹ and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

⁹ Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

⁵ Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

¹⁰ And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth `in'.

¹⁶ See do nations, and they are ashamed of all their might, They lay a hand on the mouth, their ears are deaf.

³² If thou hast been foolish in lifting up thyself, And if thou hast devised evil -- hand to mouth!

⁹ and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

¹⁴ And Elisha hath been sick with his sickness in which he dieth, and come down unto him doth Joash king of Israel, and weepeth on his face, and saith, `My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and its horsemen.'

⁸ And the king saith unto Hazael, `Take in thy hand a present, and go to meet the man of God, and thou hast sought Jehovah by him, saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'

⁹ And Hazael goeth to meet him, and taketh a present in his hand, even of every good thing of Damascus, a burden of forty camels, and he cometh in and standeth before him, and saith, `Thy son Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Do I revive from this sickness?'

²¹ And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, `Do I smite -- do I smite -- my father?'