Who would have guessed

While I was passing by a road, a wounded man with a headband came up to me and said, "Your servant went into the thick of the battle, and someone came to me with a captive and said, 'Guard this man. If he is missing, it will be your life for his life, or you must pay a talent of silver.' While your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared."

After hearing that, I told him that he has just pronounced the judgment on himself. But then the wounded man quickly took of his headband and BOOM it hit me. That wounded man was the prophet. And who would have figured what he was going to say to me next. Hhmm any guesses, anyone?

Well in case you really don't know what the man was going to say next, it was something like this, "This is what the LORD says: ' You have set free a man I had determined should die. Therefore it is your life for his life, your people for his people' "

Of course; even though I knew that it was coming, I still became angry at what the prophet said to me. Realizing that there was not much that I could do, I went back to my palace in Samaria.