The king of Israel went home to Samaria ¹  bitter and angry.

So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, ¹  “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” ²  He lay down on his bed, pouted, ³  and would not eat.

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”

Fathers, ¹  do not provoke ²  your children, so they will not become disheartened.

For the one who does wrong will be repaid for his wrong, ¹  and there are no exceptions. ² 

“When ¹  you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive ²  so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, ³  they have their reward.