2 Kings 6:31-33

New Catholic Bible

³¹ He said, “May God do this to me and more if the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, remains on his body today.”

³² Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a man to him, but even before the messenger arrived, he said to the elders, “Do you not see how he has sent this son of a murderer to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut and bar the door against him. Is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?”

³³ As he was still talking, the messenger came down to him. He said, “This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?”