John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, I shall speak whatever the Lord tells me.”
You shall not have intercourse with your brother’s wife; that would be a disgrace to your brother.
If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is severe defilement and he has disgraced his brother; they shall be childless.
They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head.