For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the Lord lives, I can tell him only what the Lord tells me.”
“ ‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.
“ ‘If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.
They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.