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.