John had been telling Herod, “It is against God’s law for you to marry your brother’s wife.”
But Micaiah replied, “As surely as the Lord lives, I will say only what the Lord tells me to say.”
“Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife, for this would violate your brother.
“If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has violated his brother, and the guilty couple will remain childless.
And they spit on him and grabbed the stick and struck him on the head with it.