The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, ‘Naboth has cursed God and the king! ’ So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
2 Chronicles 24:21 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But they conspired against him and stoned him at the king’s command in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They conspired against Zechariah the priest and stoned him at the command of the king in the court of the Lord's house! American Standard Version (1901) And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah. Common English Bible But the people plotted against Zechariah, and at the king’s command stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD’s temple. Catholic Public Domain Version And gathering together against him, they stoned him, beside the place of the king, in the atrium of the house of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they gathered themselves together against him, and stoned him at the king's commandment in the court of the house of the Lord. |
The two wicked men came in and sat opposite him. Then the wicked men testified against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, ‘Naboth has cursed God and the king! ’ So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.
While he was still speaking to him, the king asked, ‘Have we made you the king’s counsellor? Stop, why should you lose your life? ’ So the prophet stopped, but he said, ‘I know that God intends to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice.’
But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.
for I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plots against me: ‘Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit; let’s cut him off from the land of the living so that his name will no longer be remembered.’
Then certain ones said, ‘Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will never be lost from the priest, or counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet. Come, let’s denounce him and pay no attention to all his words.’
So Pashhur had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
‘This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all Judah’s cities that are coming to worship there. Do not hold back a word.
King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.
They hate the one who convicts the guilty at the city gate, and they despise the one who speaks with integrity.
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. ‘Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.
They were stoned, , they were sawn in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.