17 And he went on to say: “What is the word that he has spoken to you? Do not, please, hide it from me.+ May God do so to you and so may he add to it+ if you should hide from me a word of all the word that he has spoken to you.”

16 At that the king said to him: “For how many times am I putting you under oath that you should not speak to me anything but truth in the name of Jehovah?”+