Saul asked Michal, ‘Why did you deceive me like this? You sent my enemy away, and he has escaped! ’ She answered him, ‘He said to me, “Let me go! Why should I kill you? ” ’
Then Herod, when he realised that he had been outwitted by the wise men, flew into a rage. He gave orders to massacre all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under, in keeping with the time he had learned from the wise men.
Ahab said to Elijah, ‘So, my enemy, you’ve found me, have you? ’ He replied, ‘I have found you because you devoted yourself to do what is evil in the Lord’s sight.
Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house and asked, ‘Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? ’ ‘They passed by towards the water,’ the woman replied to them. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Then the king ordered the guards standing by him, ‘Turn and kill the priests of the Lord because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.’ But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the Lord.