Verse 18

When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him,“We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 6:26 : 26 While the king of Israel was passing by on the city wall, a woman shouted to him,“Help us, my master, O king!”
• Jer 38:9 : 9 “Your royal Majesty, those men have been very wicked in all that they have done to the prophet Jeremiah. They have thrown him into a cistern and he is sure to die of starvation there because there is no food left in the city.”