Saul said to Michal, “Why did you trick me like this? Why did you help my enemy escape?” Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Help me get away. If you don’t, I’ll kill you.’ ”
Absalom’s men came to the house. They asked the woman, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” She answered, “They went across the brook.” When the men looked around, they didn’t find anyone. So they returned to Jerusalem.
Ahab said to Elijah, “My enemy! You have found me!” “I have found you,” he answered. “That’s because you gave yourself over to do evil things. You did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
Herod realized that the Wise Men had tricked him. So he became very angry. He gave orders about Bethlehem and the area around it. He ordered all the boys two years old and under to be killed. This agreed with the time when the Wise Men had seen the star.
Then the king gave an order to the guards at his side. He said, “Go and kill the priests of the Lord. They are on David’s side too. They knew he was running away from me. And they didn’t even tell me.” But the king’s officials wouldn’t raise a hand to strike down the priests of the Lord.