Section 57
And when Tsadoq saw this he fell forward on his face flat upon the ground, and his spirit was poured out over him, for he was terrified; and he became like a dead man. And when he tarried in coming out Shəlomah sent to him lyoas (Benayahu), the son of Yodahe, and he found Tsadoq like one dead. And he lifted up the head, of Tsadoq, and felt his heart and his nose to find out whether there was any sign of breath being in him; and he fanned him, and lifted him up, and rubbed him and laid him out upon the table. And he rose up and looked at the place where Tsiyon had been set, and he found her not, and he fell dowm upon the ground. And he cast dust upon his head, and [then] rose up and went out and wailed at the doors of the house of Elohim; and the sound of his cries was heard as far as the King’s house. And the King rose up and commanded the crier to go round, and the soldiers to blow 7 the trumpets, so that the people might go forth and pursue the men of the land of Ethiopia, and if they overtook them they were to seize his son and bring him back with Tsiyon, and slay the [other] men wdth the sword. For with his mouth he spoke and said, “ As the Yahuah Elohim of Yisra'el lives, they are men of death and not of life; for verily they deserve death because they have robbed the house of the sanctuary of Elohim, and have desired to pollute the habitation of His Name in a land in which there is not the Torah.”