40. While I was busy here and there, the man disappeared." "That's your sentence," the king of Israel told him. "You have said so yourself."
41. Then the prophet quickly removed the headband from his eyes. The king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
42. He told the king, "The Lord says, 'You have set a man free. But I had said he should be set apart to the Lord in a special way to be destroyed. So you must pay for his life with yours. You must pay for his people's lives with the lives of your people.' "