26 With that she said: “Excuse me, my lord! By the life of your soul,+ my lord, I am the woman that was standing with you in this place to pray to Jehovah.+

19 And the king went on to say: “Is the hand of Joʹab+ with you in all this?”+ Then the woman answered and said: “As your soul is living,+ O my lord the king, no man can go to the right or go to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for it was your servant Joʹab that commanded me, and he it was that put in the mouth of your maidservant all these words.+

2 And E·liʹjah began to say to E·liʹsha: “Sit here, please, because Jehovah himself has sent me clear to Bethʹel.” But E·liʹsha said: “As Jehovah is living+ and as your soul is living,+ I will not leave you.”+ So they went down to Bethʹel.+