Soothly Elisha sat in his house, and eld or old men sat with him; then the king before-sent a man to Elisha, and before that that messenger came, Elisha said to the eld or old men, Whether ye know, that Benhadad the son of a man-queller hath sent hither, that mine head be girded off? Therefore see ye, when the messenger cometh, shut ye the door, and suffer ye not him to enter; for lo! the sound of the feet of his lord is behind him.