¹⁴ The men answered her, ‘We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.’

²⁴ Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.

Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside, and he warned them, ‘Whoever allows any of the men I am placing in your hands to escape will forfeit his life for theirs.’^(A)