When the king thus fell, his servants ran and told the queen what had happened to the king. She at once came into the room where he lay, and seeing Aaron and his brethren standing by, she became angry with them. She supposed that they were the cause of the evil that had, in her opinion, befallen her husband. She, without hesitation, ordered the king's servants to take the missionaries and slay them. But the servants dared not! They feared the power which was in Aaron. "Why commandest thou that we should slay these men, when, behold, one of them is mightier than us all," they pleaded with the queen. The queen also was afraid, but she seemed to think that the best way to get rid of the trouble was to destroy those who she fancied brought it. As the king's servants refused to obey her command, she ordered them to go out into the streets and call upon the people to come in and kill Aaron and his companions.