¹⁸ ‘What should I give you? ’ he asked.

She answered, ‘Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.’ So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.

⁸ So she wrote letters^(A) in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal.^(B) She sent the letters to the elders^(C) and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

²³ On that day’ – this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies – ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant’ – this is the Lord’s declaration – ‘and make you like my signet ring,^(A) for I have chosen you.’^(B) This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.