1
Eved-Melekh said, “I left Yerushalayim yesterday. How can you tell me that seventy years have passed?”
2
The people brought him to elders who questioned him carefully.
3
He showed them the figs preserved from the day he had slept.
4
Then they understood that a sign had been given through him.
5
The sleep of Eved-Melekh became testimony that the years of captivity, long to the people, were still held within the hand of Yahuah.