⁷ But when the king of Israel read the letter, ^(A)he tore his clothes and said, “^(B)Am I God, to kill and to keep alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But ^(C)consider now, and see how he is seeking ^[a]a quarrel against me.”

¹⁸ and the ^(A)living One; and I ^[a](B)was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have ^(C)the keys of death and of Hades.