John the Baptist kept telling Herod, “It isn't right for you to marry your brother's wife!”
But Micaiah answered, “By the living Lord I promise that I will say what he tells me to!”
or with your brother's wife.
If a man takes his brother's wife, they will die childless. He has done a ritually unclean thing and has disgraced his brother.
They spat on him, and took the stick and hit him over the head.