* his servants.
  23  2Ki 5:13 
 * merciful kings.
  Pr 20:28  Isa 16:5  Eph 1:7,8 
 * let us, I pray thee.
   Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted
   nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to
   Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346.  See the whole
   story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart, (who
   lived in that time,) with that simplicity and detail that give
   it every appearance of truth.

 * put sackcloth.
  21:27-29  Ge 37:34  2Sa 3:31  14:2  2Ki 19:1,2  Es 4:1-3  Isa 22:12 
  Isa 37:1  Jon 3:5,6  Re 11:3 
 * peradventure.
  2Ki 7:4  Es 4:16  Job 2:4  Mt 10:28