Then the Lord replied to him, ‘In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.’ And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him.
‘Pass throughout the city of Jerusalem,’ the Lord said to him, ‘and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the detestable practices committed in it.’
Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.’ So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.
and the smoke of their torment will go up for ever and ever. There is no rest , day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or anyone who receives the mark of its name.
And another, a third angel, followed them and spoke with a loud voice: ‘If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
Then the Lord said to him: Name him Jezreel, , for in a little while I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel on the house of Jehu and put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
But through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani the word of the Lord also had come against Baasha and against his house because of all the evil he had done in the Lord’s sight. His actions angered the Lord, and Baasha’s house became like the house of Jeroboam, because he had struck it down.