I Kings 21:11
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So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
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Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
Now, O king, come down whenever your soul desires, and we will be responsible for delivering him into your hand.”
You have kept the statutes of Omri and all the practices of Ahab’s house; you have followed their counsel. Therefore I will make you a desolation, and your inhabitants an object of contempt; you will bear the scorn of the nations.”
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route.
When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
But they conspired against Zechariah, and by order of the king, they stoned him in the courtyard of the house of the LORD.
Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, for he is determined to follow worthless idols.